No hdr YouTube playback?

[1BadManVan]

I know I had this option before on YouTube, but now when I select an hdr video, it no longer has the hdr option under the quality playback settings. They show up on my phone just fine and used to show up on my Mac. Anyone else having this issue?

 

[Haribokart]

Untick 'optimise video streaming while on battery' under preferences > battery.

 

[1BadManVan]

Untick 'optimise video streaming while on battery' under preferences > battery.

Already did that. Also went into the developer settings in safari and made sure HDR capabilities and vp9 codec in battery were checked off

 

[1BadManVan]

Any other ideas?

 

[jjijack]

I found this problem after updating a certain version of iPad OS 16 beta too. The HDR option disappears when watching YouTube via Safari, but the app version still provides HDR. I think either it’s a bug of Safari, or Google has banned browsers with Mac UA from getting HDR contents(iPad uses exactly the same UA as Mac). And the issue still exists till now.
You may change your UA to Chrome/Windows to find out if it is caused by the UA issue(iPad’s Safari can’t change UA so I can’t configure it 🙁)

 

[kecinzer]

I'm on macOS 13.1 and I have same issue. I can't enable HDR on Youtube in Safari, but i worked in past.