When enabled (the default), share links to YouTube videos point to the
active source's web watch page instead of youtube.com. Invidious serves
its frontend at the API URL; Piped uses its configured frontend URL.
Videos the active source can't serve (PeerTube, extracted sources) and
sources without a web frontend keep their original links.
The toggle lives in Settings > Layout & Navigation > Sharing on iOS and
macOS, and is shown only when an enabled source has a web watch page.
The remote control loadVideo command only carried the raw video ID and
an instance URL, so extracted videos (Twitch live streams and other
yt-dlp sites) failed on the receiver: it tried to fetch the ID from the
/api/v1/videos endpoint, which rejects non-YouTube IDs.
The command now carries the full ContentSource and title. The receiver
rebuilds the VideoID from the source and opens a placeholder Video -
the player then re-extracts streams and full metadata from the original
URL, same as when opening the video locally. Media-source extractors
(WebDAV/SMB/local) keep using the existing UUID:path branch.
Both fields are optional for protocol compatibility: old receivers
ignore them, commands from old senders keep the legacy behavior.
Also stop sending a start time for live streams - there is no shared
timeline, the receiver joins at the live edge.
The default SwiftUI Menu style on macOS 15 renders as a bordered
pull-down button that stretches to fill available width, while
macOS 26 hugs the label. Apply .menuStyle(.borderlessButton) and
.fixedSize() to the video context menu and playlist header menu.
