Ask iOS for the playback audio session on a page with a video #14

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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
thatguygriffandClaude Opus 5	4c78ce8a27	Ask iOS for the playback audio session on a page with a video CI / Typecheck, test, build (pull_request) Successful in 12s Details A TikTok post played perfectly and said nothing on an iPhone. The file was not the problem: every rendition TikTok offers for it carries a full AAC track, and the page as served measures loud audio in WebKit and Chromium alike, straight through the /m/ proxy. iOS is the problem. A video playing inline gets the "ambient" audio session, which the Ring/Silent switch mutes; only going fullscreen gets the sound back. Claiming "playback" says what is true of this page -- the sound is the point, not decoration -- and the switch stops applying. Declared only where there is a video, so an ordinary text post never claims it, and the session activates when something plays rather than on load, so it interrupts nothing on a page nobody presses play on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B3RUMiXa6eAW3okw9nB9NF	2026-09-02 21:06:12 -03:00

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thatguygriffandClaude Opus 5

4c78ce8a27

Ask iOS for the playback audio session on a page with a video

CI / Typecheck, test, build (pull_request) Successful in 12s

Details

A TikTok post played perfectly and said nothing on an iPhone. The file was
not the problem: every rendition TikTok offers for it carries a full AAC
track, and the page as served measures loud audio in WebKit and Chromium
alike, straight through the /m/ proxy.

iOS is the problem. A video playing inline gets the "ambient" audio session,
which the Ring/Silent switch mutes; only going fullscreen gets the sound
back. Claiming "playback" says what is true of this page -- the sound is the
point, not decoration -- and the switch stops applying.

Declared only where there is a video, so an ordinary text post never claims
it, and the session activates when something plays rather than on load, so
it interrupts nothing on a page nobody presses play on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B3RUMiXa6eAW3okw9nB9NF

2026-09-02 21:06:12 -03:00