IOS WebAudio only works on headphones

Question

I\'ve been running into an issue now for a while where on some ios devices my webaudio system only seems to work with headphones where as other devices (exact same os, model

Answer 1

This is likely because the iPhone's side switch is on "mute". It's very confusing - HTML5 tags still play fine when the phone is muted, but WebAudio does not. Why? Who knows. But it's a restriction I currently haven't found a way around.