video playback skips a few minutes when user doesn't interact with paused player in Safari


Whenever I pause the video and go to another tab, when I go back to the video and click play, it will skip several minutes ahead, if not more than a dozen depending on how long I leave it “paused". This happens only in Safari (using the latest build released with MacOS Ventura) when I playback videos on Crunchyroll, Udemy or Platzi video players.

This issue comes from a few safari versions ago (I can reproduce this issue since Safari 14)


Steps to reproduce:

  1.  Play any video for a minute and pause
  2. Open a new tab, wait 5-20 minutes 
  3. Go back to the tab with video
  4. Click play


Expected result: Video starts to play from the timestamp where it was paused

Actual result: Video starts to play from wrong timestamp (where you pause + time you was absent).


Noting that if you use Chrome or Firefox user agent within Safari, video players of mentioned websites works as expected.



MacBook Air, macOS 13.5

Posted on Aug 19, 2023 06:22 PM

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Aug 20, 2023 01:41 PM in response to Evetookabite

Hi Evetookabite,


Thanks for participating in Apple Support Communities! With this only happening when visiting these specific websites. Since it only happens with these websites, remove the website data to see if something saved there is causing this to happen. Here's how to do that.


  1. Open Safari and choose the Safari menu > Preferences.
  2. Select the Privacy tab, then choose "Manage Website Data..."
  3. Locate the website in the alphabetical list, or by using the search field.
  4. Select the website then choose "Remove", then "Done".
  5. Quit Safari, then relaunch.


Some additional information about managing cookies and website data can be found here: Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac


Let us know how it goes.


Take care.

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