Autoplay muted videos (Android)

Relax autoplay restrictions to allow muted videos to autoplay. They will only be able to play while muted and unmuting will pause if not coming from a user gesture.

Demo

• https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/muted-autoplay/index.html

Documentation

• https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/976

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for Android release 53

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Public support
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: Strongly positive

Owners

• avayvod@chromium.org
• mlamouri@chromium.org
• zqzhang@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14