iOS — hide video controls without disabling them

Anki Suggestions
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Hi there,

A quick suggestion for iOS: it would be great to have video controls hidden by default, but without disabling them.
Since I had the same issue as the one mentioned in this thread (can’t post links I think: video-hidden-behind-controls-with-new-ios/32361), I disabled the video controls. However, that prevents me from scrolling inside the video if I want to see something again. Since my videos are short and the videos are looping, it’s not a huge deal, but it would still be nicer to have access to the controls.

Have a great day!

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Unfortunately there’s no easy way to do this - iOS doesn’t provide an option to have the controls be hidden by default, and the only way we could avoid this is by completely reimplementing our own controls instead.

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That’s what I feared. Sounds time consuming. In that case never mind, I at least can live with the current situation.