YouTube iframe displays properly on Android/PC but not on iPad OS (error 153)

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Blank iPad vault.

  2. Add an iframe to a note :

<iframe width="150" height="120" src="https://YOUTUBE_URL" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  1. Notice it renders properly on desktop / Android, but not on iPad.

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Expected result

YouTube iFrame should render properly.

Actual result

YouTube iFrame displays “Error 153”

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.7 (303)
API version: 1.12.7
Operating system: iOS 26.0.1 (Apple iPad8,5)
Login status: not logged in
Language: fr
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

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Additional information

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Unfortunately, youtube has implemented restrictions to access its videos (likely to curb AI scarping).

A few releases ago we introduced some workarounds, by they only work when obsidian manages the embed ![](https://video-url).

We are not going to be able to fix this.

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Thanks for your reply and for the information @WhiteNoise.

My workflow relied a lot on storing iframes in a property in some notes then display these iframes in a Dataview table as follows :

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Do you think there’s a way to at least resize the YouTube embed ?

This is breaking a 5 years workflow so I really hope I can find a workaround for resizing the embed.

Many thanks.