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Re:Safari on iOS can overlap multiple full-screen videos by reaperducer on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:54PM (#31770188)
if you long-press a link to a video file to try and save it to your device (I occasionally do this while ripping videos from Twitter), you get the long-press context menu you want (with the "download linked file" item) for like half a second before the full screen video covers up your whole screen, and when you swipe it away the context menu is gone.

Is it possible that this is related to the iOS link preview feature?

When you long-press a link, do you get the full destination page preview? That might explain why the phone renders the page, including the video taking over.

Long-press on another page link (like one here on HN), and you have a tiny option at the top-right for "Hide preview," select that. Then try another link that has a take-over video, and see if it no longer does that.

If you hate video takeovers more than you like link previews, this might solve your problem.

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Re:Safari on iOS can overlap multiple full-screen videos by hbn on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:02PM (#31770291)
That did indeed fix my issue, thank you!

I don't recall ever using link previews very much. I suppose if I really need it I can toggle it on for that specific instance, but as it is it's not worth it for the video hijacking

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