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Not working in WKWebView/iOS 11 (e.g. Chrome)

See original GitHub issue

Since this library relies on navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia and mediaDevices is null in WKWebView browsers, things break.

Notably, Safari is working fine.

It seems to be an Apple Issue and probably nothing can be done here. But I think it should be logged anyhow.

Regards, Drew

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Created 5 years ago
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werthdavidcommented, Apr 16, 2018

That’s correct unfortunately. Copied from zxing-js/ngx-scanner#Limitations:

On iOS-Devices camera access works only in native Safari and not in other Browsers (Chrome,…) or Apps that use an UIWebView or WKWebView. This is not a restriction of this component but of the limited WebRTC support by Apple. The behavior might change in iOS 11.3 (Apr 2018?, not tested) as stated here

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odahcamcommented, Feb 25, 2021

https://blog.bitsrc.io/ios-14-3-brings-webrtc-to-wkwebview-closing-gap-on-ios-accessibility-90a83fa6bda2

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