getusermedia not working in safari

Navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia not working on iOS 12 Safari

Getusermedia.

As of iOS 12, navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia() is returning an error in Safari.

To recreate this, open iPhone Web Inspector, then run this snippet in the console:

You'll see that this runs successfully in desktop browsers, and in iOS 11 Safari, but fails in iOS 12 Safari.

NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission.

Any idea why?

note: This is happening prior to the user being asked if their camera can be accessed, ruling out the possibility of it being because the user denied permission.

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Since iOS 11, getUserMedia is supposed to finally work on Apple devices. But in fact it does not work. The JavaScript sample code below works on all other OS: Blackberry, Android, etc...

getUserMedia is deprecated, and not supported in Safari browser. You can see the Compatibility table taken from the MDN Docs. Instead, you can use the navigator. mediaDevices.

The MediaDevices . getUserMedia() method prompts the user for permission to use a media input which produces a MediaStream with tracks containing the requested types of media.

Setting these three attributes before calling getUserMedia solved the problem for me:

For some reason video.setAttribute() works but trying to assign the value directly to the video object for example video.muted = '' does not.

Also it appears that it's not necessary to call video.play() .

Simply setting the video.srcObject to the stream returned by getUserMedia worked for me.

This medium post has a link to a working demo & source code.

There are two possible reasons for immediate NotAllowedError at the moment:

1. getUserMedia requries https

Safari seems to require https for camera and mic access, both in iOS and OSX.

With an https link, iOS Safari 12 works for me; same link in http gets NotAllowedError .

Chrome has the same requirement. This is consistent with the direction of the specification, which recently has restricted getUserMedia to secure contexts. Browsers who have yet to update, still expose navigator.mediaDevices in http, but getUserMedia always rejects with NotAllowedError .

In the future, expect browsers to remove mediaDevices entirely in http, to comply with the spec.

2. getUserMedia requires feature policy in cross-origin iframes.

This appears new with Safari 12. In iframes, getUserMedia 's feature policy is off by default for cross-origin content.

This works for me:

This doesn't work:

...and in addition to failing with NotAllowedError , Safari warns in web console:

This is also a recent update to the spec.

Turns out my particular issue was a bug in 12.01. Every device with that version had the issue, and as soon as I updated them to a newer version it went away.

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getUserMedia() on iOS 11 Safari #2146

kylemcdonald commented Aug 29, 2017 • edited

lmccart commented Aug 29, 2017

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getUserMedia/Stream API

Method of accessing external device data (such as a webcam video stream). Formerly this was envisioned as the <device> element.

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Chrome for Android

Safari on ios.

• 3.2 - 10.3 : Not supported
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Samsung Internet

• 4 - 5.4 : Partial support
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UC Browser for Android

• 15.5 : Supported

Android Browser

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Firefox for Android

• 14.9 : Supported

Baidu Browser

• 13.52 : Supported

KaiOS Browser

• 2.5 : Not supported
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As of Chrome 47, the getUserMedia API cannot be called from insecure origins.

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Navigator.getUserMedia()

Width and height.

This is a legacy method. Please use the newer navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia() instead. While technically not deprecated, this old callback version is marked as such, since the specification strongly encourages using the newer promise returning version.

Deprecated This feature has been removed from the Web standards. Though some browsers may still support it, it is in the process of being dropped. Avoid using it and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.

The Navigator.getUserMedia() method prompts the user for permission to use up to one video input device (such as a camera or shared screen) and up to one audio input device (such as a microphone). If permission is granted, a MediaStream whose video and/or audio tracks come from those devices is delivered to the specified success callback. If permission is denied, no compatible input devices exist, or any other error condition occurs, the error callback is executed with a MediaStreamError object describing what went wrong. If the user instead doesn't make a choice at all, neither callback is executed.

Return value

undefined .

Here's an example of using getUserMedia() , including code to cope with various browsers' prefixes. Note that this is the deprecated way of doing it: See the Examples section under the MediaDevices.getUserMedia() for modern examples.

Permissions

To use getUserMedia() in an installable app (for example, a Firefox OS app ), you need to specify one or both of the following fields inside your manifest file:

See permission: audio-capture and permission: video-capture for more information.

Specifications

Browser compatibility.

New code should use Navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia() instead.

[1] Later versions of Chrome support unprefixed MediaDevices.getUserMedia() , that replaced this deprecated method.

[2] Chrome and Opera still use an outdated constraint syntax, but the syntax described here is available through the adapter.js polyfill.

[3] The constraint syntax described here is available as of Firefox 38. Earlier versions (32-37) used an outdated constraint syntax, but the syntax described here is available there through the adapter.js polyfill.

[4] In Firefox OS 1.2 only audio was supported, 1.4 added support for video .

• MediaDevices.getUserMedia() that replaces this deprecated method.
• WebRTC  - the introductory page to the API
• MediaStream API - the API for the media stream objects
• Taking webcam photos - a tutorial on using getUserMedia() for taking photos rather than video.

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• getusermedia
• Media Capture and Streams API
• Media Streams API
• Media Capture and Streams API (Media Streams)
• activeVRDisplays
• appCodeName
• cookieEnabled
• credentials
• geolocation
• maxTouchPoints
• mediaDevices
• mozBluetooth
• mozNotification
• permissions
• serviceWorker
• addIdleObserver()
• getBattery()
• getGamepads()
• getUserMedia()
• getVRDisplays()
• mozIsLocallyAvailable()
• registerContentHandler()
• registerProtocolHandler()
• requestMediaKeySystemAccess()
• requestWakeLock()
• sendBeacon()
• taintEnabled()
• overconstrained
• removetrack
• devicechange
• AudioStreamTrack
• CanvasCaptureMediaStream
• ConstrainBoolean
• ConstrainDOMString
• ConstrainDouble
• ConstrainLong
• DoubleRange
• HTMLCanvasElement.captureStream()
• MediaDevices
• MediaStream
• MediaStreamTrack
• MediaStreamTrackEvent
• MediaTrackCapabilities
• MediaTrackConstraints
• MediaTrackSettings
• MediaTrackSupportedConstraints
• NavigatorUserMedia
• NavigatorUserMediaError
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navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia doesn't work on macos catalyst

I've got the following error on Mac Catalyst:

TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia')

macOS 13.5.1 (22G 90) Safari 17.0 (18616.1.24.11.5, 18616) UserAgent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.1.15"

The same app works well on iOS.

• Mac Catalyst