AVPlayer has a fundamental limitation with MP4/AVC1 progressive downloads where the moov atom position affects playback start time. When moov is at the end of the file, AVPlayer must download the entire file before starting playback. MPV doesn't have this limitation.
This commit adds an advanced setting to optionally enable these formats in AVPlayer with appropriate warnings:
- Added new setting: "Enable non-streamable formats (MP4/AVC1)"
- Default: disabled (formats hidden, MPV handles them)
- When enabled: MP4/AVC1 formats up to 1080p appear in AVPlayer quality selector
- Resolution limit: 1080p maximum (higher resolutions can't be played properly)
- Clear warning about slow loading and 1080p limitation
- Automatic stream refresh when setting is toggled
- Full import/export support for the setting
Fixes#870 where YouTube share links incorrectly included the port number
from the user's Invidious instance URL (e.g., http://www.youtube.com:3000
instead of http://www.youtube.com).
Added defensive logic to explicitly clear the port when creating share URLs
with frontend URL strings containing "youtube.com". This ensures YouTube
share links always use the standard format without port numbers, regardless
of the user's instance configuration.
The tap-blocking overlay is only needed on iOS to dismiss the context menu
on tap. Removed it from macOS and tvOS where it was either blocking normal
interactions or not functional due to platform limitations.
Removed fixed height constraint from empty state in FavoriteItemView.
Empty sections now collapse to natural height instead of reserving
full content height (290px iOS/600px tvOS), improving space efficiency.
Improved text contrast on overlay buttons by:
- Applying foreground color directly to button labels to ensure proper override
- Using semi-transparent gray background for unfocused buttons instead of Color.secondary
- Removing accent color overrides from caption text to respect button styling
This ensures readable text in both focused (black on white) and unfocused
(white on gray) states.
Changed context menus from press-and-hold to single-press for better UX:
- Quality profile selection
- Stream quality selection
- Captions selection
- Audio track selection
Updated ControlsOverlayButton to support tap actions via new onSelect parameter.
Replaced .contextMenu modifiers with .alert for instant menu access on tvOS.
Removed hint text and unnecessary 80px padding as single-press is self-evident.
The captions context menu on tvOS was always empty because it relied on
an .onAppear callback that was never triggered. The captionsPicker view
with .onAppear was only rendered on iOS/macOS, not tvOS.
Changes:
- Access captions directly from player.currentVideo?.captions instead of
using a state variable populated via .onAppear
- Fix label logic to show "Disabled" when captions are available but not
selected, and "Not available" only when video has no captions
- Remove unused state variables and helper functions
Prefix caption URLs with /companion when invidiousCompanion is enabled in instance settings. This ensures captions are routed through the companion service, matching the behavior of video streams.
In fullscreen playback, swipe-down and timeline seek gestures now respect a 60pt safe zone at the top of the screen, allowing the system notification center gesture to work without triggering app gestures.
Comments at the bottom of the comments view were not accessible on iOS
without entering fullscreen mode. The issue was caused by the VideoDetails
view being offset by the player height when not in fullscreen, but the
ScrollView padding didn't account for this offset.
Changes:
- Add SafeAreaModel observer for iOS platform
- Update bottom padding to dynamically account for player height offset
and safe area insets based on fullscreen state
- When not in fullscreen: padding = player height + safe area bottom + 20
- When in fullscreen: padding = max(60, safe area bottom + 20)
This ensures all comments and video details content are fully scrollable
and visible regardless of fullscreen state.
This adds a new instance setting for Invidious that filters out videos
without duration information from feeds, popular, trending, search results,
and channel pages. This can be used to hide YouTube Shorts.
The setting is labeled as "Experimental: Hide videos without duration" and
includes an explanation that it can be used to hide shorts.
Key changes:
- Added hideVideosWithoutDuration property to Instance model
- Updated InstancesBridge to serialize/deserialize the new setting
- Added UI toggle in InstanceSettings with explanatory footer text
- Implemented filtering in InvidiousAPI for:
* Popular videos
* Trending videos
* Search results
* Subscription feed
* Channel content
- Videos accessed directly by URL are not filtered
Removed auto-focus logic that was causing keyboard show/hide loop
on iPad with docked keyboard. The keyboard was repeatedly dismissing
immediately after appearing due to interaction between keyboard
notifications, focus state changes, and view updates.
Changes:
- Removed focused state and keyboard observer from SearchModel
- Removed iOS textField reference (kept macOS only)
- Removed auto-focus logic from FocusableSearchTextField on iOS
- Cleaned up unused focus-related code
The search field now works reliably when tapped manually on iPad.
Auto-focus still works on macOS where it doesn't cause issues.
Add startup cleanup to remove trending-related settings when the feature flag is disabled:
- Remove trending from visible sections
- Reset startup section to home if it was set to trending
- Remove all trending favorite items
This ensures users don't have invalid/broken settings referencing the disabled trending feature.
Change the Trending menu command to be completely hidden when the feature flag is disabled, rather than just being disabled and still visible in the UI.
Introduces a feature flag to disable the Trending section across the app. When disabled, all trending-related UI elements, navigation links, and settings are hidden.
Changes:
- Add trendingEnabled feature flag to FeatureFlags.swift (currently disabled)
- Hide Trending tab in AppTabNavigation, Sidebar, and TVNavigationView
- Remove Trending option from visible sections settings
- Remove Trending option from startup section picker
- Disable Trending menu command and keyboard shortcut
- Prevent Trending URL navigation in OpenURLHandler
- Hide Trending in FavoriteItemView navigation
Replace arrow.up.right.circle.fill icon with chart.bar.fill for the Popular section across all navigation contexts (tab bar, sidebar, and view header).
The hide shorts feature is no longer working due to API changes that prevent reliable detection of short videos. This commit introduces a feature flag system to disable the functionality while preserving the ability to easily restore it if the API issue is resolved.
Changes:
- Add FeatureFlags.swift with hideShortsEnabled flag (currently disabled)
- Hide all HideShortsButtons UI elements when flag is disabled
- Disable shorts filtering logic in ContentItemView, FavoriteItemView, and FeedModel
- Preserve hideShorts user preference for future restoration
Tab selection was being set immediately during app configuration, before
the user account had completed sign-in. This caused tabs that require
authentication (like Subscriptions and Playlists) to not be properly
selected on startup since they weren't visible yet.
Changes:
- Add notification system for account configuration completion
- Post notification after all account types finish configuration:
* Accounts with existing tokens
* Accounts requiring sign-in (after network request completes)
* Anonymous/public accounts
* Error cases (missing credentials, network failures)
- Set up observer before account configuration to ensure notification
is received
- Set tab selection only when account is fully configured
Fixed issues with thumbnails being stretched vertically and layout jumping during image loading:
- Simplified VideoCellThumbnail to always use 16:9 aspect ratio with .fill mode
- Added matching 16:9 aspect ratio to placeholder with .fill mode to prevent layout shifts
- Removed quality-based aspect ratio selection (4:3 vs 16:9) in favor of consistent 16:9
- Ensures thumbnails maintain proper proportions on both iOS and macOS
This provides consistent sizing across platforms and eliminates the jump when images finish loading.
Thumbnails were being stretched vertically due to incorrect aspect ratio handling. Fixed by:
- Using .scaledToFill() on thumbnails to fill the container width
- Constraining container to 16:9 aspect ratio with .fit mode
- Adding matching aspect ratio to placeholder to prevent layout shift during loading
This ensures thumbnails maintain proper proportions while filling the full cell width.
Previously, the audio session was initialized immediately when the app launched, causing audio from other apps (like Music) to stop even when no video was playing in Yattee.
Changes:
- Remove audio session initialization from AppDelegate launch
- Remove audio session setup from MPVClient initialization
- Update setAudioSessionActive() to configure audio session category before activation
The audio session is now lazily initialized only when playback actually starts:
- For MPV backend: triggered by FILE_LOADED, PLAYBACK_RESTART, AUDIO_RECONFIG events
- For AVPlayer backend: triggered when play() is called
This allows music from other apps to continue playing until a video is actually played in Yattee.
Reduced video cell and grid item sizes on tvOS to improve layout spacing
and visual consistency. Changed grid item size from 600 to 560 pixels,
and adjusted video cell frame dimensions accordingly.
This commit addresses crashes caused by accessing nil format values on streams:
- QualityProfile.swift: Add guard check for stream.format to prevent nil access crash
- MPVBackend.swift: Add nil check in canPlay method before comparing format
- PlayerStreams.swift: Add nil check before comparing format in asset processing
The crashes occurred when stream.format was nil and accessed as an implicitly unwrapped optional, causing "Unexpectedly found nil while implicitly unwrapping an Optional value" errors.
This commit addresses crashes caused by race conditions when accessing audio track arrays:
- MPVBackend.swift: Use safe index clamping to prevent array out of bounds crashes when selecting audio tracks
- PlayerModel.swift: Add selectedAudioTrack computed property for thread-safe audio track access
- ControlsOverlay.swift: Use safe accessor with "Original" fallback label
- PlaybackSettings.swift: Use safe accessor with "Original" fallback label
This fix resolves approximately 37% of crashes (23 out of 62 crash logs) that were caused by index out of range errors in MPVBackend.playStream at line 345.
Fixed improperly sized and positioned thumbnails by removing duplicate aspect ratio constraints and standardizing to 4:3 format with fill content mode for better display.
Switch from VStack to ZStack layout for better control over detail view positioning in fullscreen mode. Add z-index layering to ensure proper stacking order of player backend and video details.
Changed the default audio track content type from "Unknown" to "Original"
when the content type is not specified. This provides a more accurate
description for the default audio track.
Remove unnecessary edgesIgnoringSafeArea modifier and simplify status bar hiding logic by removing iPad-specific conditional checks, making the fullscreen behavior more consistent across iOS devices.
When switching from AVPlayer to MPV backend, Now Playing controls (play/pause/seek) were disabled because AVPlayer maintained control of the remote command center and audio session. This fix ensures MPV can properly reclaim control.
Key changes:
- Clear AVPlayer's current item when switching to MPV to release media control
- Clear Now Playing info and set playback state to stopped before MPV takes over
- Reset remote command center by removing all targets (including AVPlayer's internal handlers) and re-adding custom handlers
- Force audio session deactivation/reactivation with .notifyOthersOnDeactivation
- Add forceReactivate parameter to setupAudioSessionForNowPlaying() for backend switches
- Ensure stream loading continues after Now Playing setup (don't return early)
The fix properly handles the transition by:
1. Clearing AVPlayer's media session completely
2. Scheduling async Now Playing setup without blocking stream loading
3. Resetting remote command handlers to reclaim control from AVPlayer
4. Re-activating audio session to establish MPV as the active player
The MPV backend now properly displays Now Playing information in iOS Control Center. The fix addresses the issue where the AVAudioSession would become inactive during MPV's playback lifecycle.
Key changes:
- Added setupAudioSessionForNowPlaying() method to activate AVAudioSession with proper playback category and movie playback mode
- Re-activate audio session at critical MPV events: FILE_LOADED, PLAYBACK_RESTART, AUDIO_RECONFIG, and during periodic updates
- Initialize audio session immediately after mpv_initialize() in MPVClient
The audio session must be re-activated at multiple points during playback, not just at initialization, to ensure iOS recognizes the app as playing media.
Expands cache clearing to include DerivedData and .build directories
to prevent corrupted artifact issues during dependency resolution.
Renames workflow file and updates job title to include macOS and
Xcode versions for clarity.
Creates a standalone workflow to build and notarize macOS-only builds
without creating a GitHub release. Uses macOS 15 and Xcode 16.4.
The notarized build is available as a workflow artifact.
