Safari autoplay policy prevents sound from drag input

[jessegreenberg]

From phetsims/quadrilateral#429, it was discovered that starting in iOS 16, sounds do not play from drag and drop. You have to tap the screen (like a single button press). @jbphet investigated this issue and identified it is related to the autoplay policy. See phetsims/quadrilateral#429 (comment) for a good description of the issue.

Maybe some iteration this can be investigated with extra common code work. As suggested in phetsims/quadrilateral#429 (comment), that might include a bug report to Apple.

[Nancy-Salpepi]

Noting that this is still an issue in iOS 18.

[jessegreenberg]

Bummer, it would be good to submit a webkit bug report for this.