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AVPlayerViewController Play Icon Removed in iOS 16 – Ios swift

In previous versions of iOS, loading AVPlayerViewController (as well as SwiftUI VideoPlayer) with a video would display the first frame and include a play icon in the center but this has gone away in iOS 16. I’ve been relying on that UI element as an affordance for "There’s a video here, tap it".

Plus, now tapping the video shows the playback controls over the video for a few seconds instead of just starting playback.

Does anyone know if:

  • There’s a property or configuration option to show the play icon?
  • I should be providing my own play icon overlay placed over the video manually?
  • This is a bug in iOS 16?

iOS 15.5 simulator with play icon, iOS 16 missing play icon

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  1. 0

    Make sure to add the AVPlayerViewController as a child view controller of your own view controller like this as mentioned here:

    Swift:

    addChild(playerController)

    Objective-C:

    [self addChildViewController:playerController];
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  2. 0

    For Swift UI need to use

    CustomVideoPlayer()
    .compositingGroup() // Mandatory 


struct CustomVideoPlayer : UIViewControllerRepresentable {

 var player: AVPlayer

 func makeUIViewController(context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<CustomVideoPlayer>) -> AVPlayerViewController {
     
     let controller = AVPlayerViewController()
     controller.player = player
     return controller

 }

 func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: AVPlayerViewController, context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<CustomVideoPlayer>) {
 }

    }

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  3. 0

    I think a work around for this issue can be adding

    if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
    avPlayerViewController.setValue(false, forKey: "canHidePlaybackControls")
}

    and changing it back after one second.
    So the code will look like something like this:

    let avPlayer: AVPlayer = AVPlayer(url: newURL)
avPlayerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
if let avPlayerViewController = avPlayerViewController {
    avPlayerViewController.delegate = self
    avPlayerViewController.player = avPlayer
    if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
        avPlayerViewController.setValue(false, forKey: "canHidePlaybackControls")
    }
    addChild(avPlayerViewController)
    view.addSubview(avPlayerViewController.view)
}
if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
    DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1, execute: {
        self.avPlayerViewController?.setValue(true, forKey: "canHidePlaybackControls")
    })
}

    The downside of using this work around is that you’ll be using private api calls which can result in your app being rejected by Apple.

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