{"id":252,"date":"2008-07-10T21:20:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=252"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:48:33","slug":"better-youtube-experience-on-iphone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/07\/better-youtube-experience-on-iphone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Better YouTube experience on iPhone 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used always have to remember to include a direct link to a YouTube video whenever I embedded one on my site, so iPhone users would be able to tap it and be directed to the YouTube player. Fortunately, now that the new iPhone software is being released around the world, I no longer have to do this. Safari identifies the YouTube embeds, and a single tap on the video opens it in the YouTube app:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/youtube-embed-1.png\" alt=\"Safari on iPhone showing an embedded YouTube video\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/youtube-embed-1.png 320w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/youtube-embed-1-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<em>Embedded videos in Safari.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/youtube-player-1.png\" alt=\"Video playing in YouTube app on iPhone\" class=\"wp-image-254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/youtube-player-1.png 480w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/youtube-player-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<em>Tapping on the video opens it in the YouTube application.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used always have to remember to include a direct link to a YouTube video whenever I embedded one on my site, so iPhone users would be able to tap it and be directed to the YouTube player. Fortunately, now that the new iPhone software is being released around the world, I no longer have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/07\/better-youtube-experience-on-iphone-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better YouTube experience on iPhone 2.0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}