Playback restricted on iOS for VEVO videos from YouTube API

Question

I have embedded videos (pulled from YouTube API v3) into my iPhone app using a UIWebView as suggested. The problem is that some videos, such as those from VEVO, produce the fol

Answer 1

For Swift 4.2 of @JAL's answer you just need to do the following and it will work like a charm with vevo videos:

import UIKit
import youtube_ios_player_helper

class MyYoutubePlayerViewController: UIViewController {

  @IBOutlet weak var playerView: YTPlayerView!

   private var playerVars: [String : Any] =  [ 
                                                "playsinline" : 1,
                                                "showinfo" : 1,
                                                "rel" : 1,
                                                "modestbranding" : 1,
                                                "controls" : 1,
                                                "origin" : "https://www.youtube.com" ]

  override func viewDidLoad() {
     super.viewDidLoad()

     self.playerView.load(withVideoId: "YQHsXMglC9A", playerVars: playerVars)
  }

}