How can I prevent autoplay in safari/iOS?

[randyriback]

I'm basically hoping to achieve something similar to this in the SDK but am having trouble.

My Spotify Player component spins up with an onClick that set's the play status, but also fetches the data from the Spotify Web API.

Are there any work-arounds you can think of similar to player.activateElement() within '
react-spotify-web-playback'?

[gilbarbara]

hey @randyriback

I didn't get your question...
You can control it with the autoPlay prop and it works for all platforms. Is this not working for you?

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[randyriback]

I'm sorry if it wasn't clear-- I'm still new at developing.

Yes, I tried the autolplay prop... this is a noobie question but when setting the boolean, would I do "autoplay={false}" or autoplay="false" ?

thanks so much for your time and lovely component!

[gilbarbara]

Ahh, ok.

It's a boolean, so autoPlay={false}. But it's false by default.

Anyway, everything inside the curly brackets {} is evaluated, while everything with quotes it'll always be a string.

[randyriback]

I see, I'd been triggering the play prop with a useEffect and it was overriding the autoPlay... thanks so much for your help. This Spotify Player is a lot of fun.