Bug 160763

Summary:	AX: video autoplay (even for silent videos) should be disabled when iOS "Reduce Motion" setting is enabled.
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	James Craig <jcraig>
Component:	Media	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	Normal	CC:	jonlee, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description James Craig 2016-08-11 01:28:51 PDT

AX: video autoplay (even for silent videos) should be disabled when iOS "Reduce Motion" setting is enabled, or Safari should have its own setting, "never autoplay."

Background
https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

API on iOS 8 and later:

// Returns whether the system preference for reduce motion is enabled
UIKIT_EXTERN BOOL UIAccessibilityIsReduceMotionEnabled() NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(8_0);

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2016-08-11 01:29:10 PDT

<rdar://problem/27801692>

Comment 2 Jon Lee 2016-10-05 19:36:39 PDT

We will look into making this possible another way.