Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

Video does not autoplay on iPhone

What you may see

A background video stays still or opens full screen

Most likely cause

Phones allow autoplay only for silent videos marked to play inside the page.

Check first (about two minutes)

Does the video tag have muted, playsinline and autoplay?

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
Video does not autoplay on iPhone

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
Phones allow autoplay only for silent videos marked to play inside the page.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Add muted, playsinline, autoplay, loop and a poster image to the background video.
2. Use a compressed MP4 (H.264) of a sensible size and show a still poster if playback fails.
3. Respect people who prefer less motion and data savers.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- The video plays on iPhone Safari without sound and without opening full screen.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not add sound to autoplay videos.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Add muted, playsinline, autoplay, loop and a poster image to the background video.
Use a compressed MP4 (H.264) of a sensible size and show a still poster if playback fails.
Respect people who prefer less motion and data savers.

Do not do this

Do not use a huge video file for the hero.
Do not add sound to autoplay videos.

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