Youtube video autoplay on iPhone's Safari or UIWebView

Question

Is it possible to get a youtube video to autoplay on Safari and/or UIWebView? I\'ve seen this done in an iPhone app, the tableview displays cells that do not have Youtube pr

Answer 1

The "button click" method mentioned above worked for me in iOS6, but only the first time. Upon repeat loads, it would not start the video. All things equal, I figured it must be a caching issue, or a cookie. Turns out clearing the cookies for youtube made it work for me.

for(NSHTTPCookie *cookie in [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] cookies]) {
      NSLog([cookie domain]);
      if([[cookie domain] isEqualToString:@".youtube.com"]) {

          [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] deleteCookie:cookie];
      }
}

Hope this can help someone else trying to figure this out for iOS6!