Don't hear anything in mobile Safari

[Joshfindit]

iPad Air 2 with iOS 10.2

Everything seems to work, the UI is responsive to touch, the volume updates, etc, but there is no sound on the examples.

[naomiaro]

@Joshfindit Do you experience this on every example and even after refreshing the page? I'm trying on a couple iPads now and I can hear sound. The first time I loaded minimal example I got a squashed track with really bad sound, however, when I reloaded it was the normal track I'd expect. I'm wondering if there's some kind of caching issue there.

[naomiaro]

Webaudio also seems to be affected by the mute button where as other sounds might not be:

goldfire/howler.js#753

Also someone restarted and then it was working: 'UPDATE: Sorry, i just restarted the device and started working.'

I've had issues personally with my macbook air losing sound randomly until I restarted in other web applications.

[naomiaro]

Also maybe I'll check into this

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12517000/no-sound-on-ios-6-web-audio-api

[naomiaro]

I'm able to hear the examples still on an iPhone 6 iOS 10.3.2 with the mute switch turned on, so I guess that article is outdated.

[Joshfindit]

edit: It was all of them, and on the first try just now I also got the bad sound on the first example

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Unfortunately it seems like it's destined to be a phantom issue: when I tried it just now it was fine.
Tried closing it and reopening after mute was turned on (certainly possible I had it on mute as I do regularly since music and video play fine with mute on), but with the iPad muted it still played.

It could also have needed a reboot, I've done at least once since the issue.

Thanks for the great roundup of tips, hopefully it happens again now that I know what to look for.