When you navigate to the "Videos" page on the website the page will render one of the watch history bars far beyond the normal boundaries of the page which results in the page zooming out as seen here:
While watching videos inside of Safari on any iOS device, the video will automatically navigate to the end after pausing and locking the screen for some time.
This has been happening as of iOS 12.2 and doesn't seem to be specific to any device. As long as you load up a video in Safari, watch to any amount of time, then pause and lock the screen. Wait for 10-15 minutes. The video will have navigated to the end as if I had watched it all the way through.
This doesn't appear to be an issue with the video playing in the background because the lock screen controls will show no progress and no audio will play while the phone has been placed in the lock state.
One of the previous updates for iOS (I believe this started with iOS 11.x.x) allowed native video players to implement their own fullscreen video control implementations over the native Safari video controls. However, at the time users were allowed to disable this specific functionality on an app-wide basis.
As of iOS 12.2 this doesn't appear to be the case and users are no longer allowed to disable this functionality. Full-screen videos that are played on an iPad now show the custom video controls which doesn't allow for +/- 15 second skips, or precise video scrubbing (part of which is covered by some native controls).
Here is a screenshot which shows what I'm describing:
Could this be disabled as a setting in the video player controls or just disabled altogether?
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