diff --git a/client/src/assets/player/peertube-player-manager.ts b/client/src/assets/player/peertube-player-manager.ts
index 15b2f420b..8e0a9109f 100644
--- a/client/src/assets/player/peertube-player-manager.ts
+++ b/client/src/assets/player/peertube-player-manager.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import {
   VideoJSPluginOptions
 } from './peertube-videojs-typings'
 import { TranslationsManager } from './translations-manager'
-import { buildVideoOrPlaylistEmbed, buildVideoLink, copyToClipboard, getRtcConfig, isIOS, isSafari } from './utils'
+import { buildVideoOrPlaylistEmbed, buildVideoLink, copyToClipboard, getRtcConfig, isSafari, isIOS } from './utils'
 
 // Change 'Playback Rate' to 'Speed' (smaller for our settings menu)
 (videojs.getComponent('PlaybackRateMenuButton') as any).prototype.controlText_ = 'Speed'
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ export class PeertubePlayerManager {
   private static playerElementClassName: string
   private static onPlayerChange: (player: videojs.Player) => void
 
+  private static alreadyPlayed = false
+
   static async initialize (mode: PlayerMode, options: PeertubePlayerManagerOptions, onPlayerChange: (player: videojs.Player) => void) {
     let p2pMediaLoader: any
 
@@ -152,6 +154,10 @@ export class PeertubePlayerManager {
           alreadyFallback = true
         })
 
+        player.one('play', () => {
+          PeertubePlayerManager.alreadyPlayed = true
+        })
+
         self.addContextMenu(mode, player, options.common.embedUrl)
 
         player.bezels()
@@ -202,6 +208,7 @@ export class PeertubePlayerManager {
     p2pMediaLoaderModule?: any
   ): videojs.PlayerOptions {
     const commonOptions = options.common
+    const isHLS = mode === 'p2p-media-loader'
 
     let autoplay = this.getAutoPlayValue(commonOptions.autoplay)
     let html5 = {}
@@ -227,7 +234,7 @@ export class PeertubePlayerManager {
       PeertubePlayerManager.addHotkeysOptions(plugins)
     }
 
-    if (mode === 'p2p-media-loader') {
+    if (isHLS) {
       const { hlsjs } = PeertubePlayerManager.addP2PMediaLoaderOptions(plugins, options, p2pMediaLoaderModule)
 
       html5 = hlsjs.html5
@@ -579,12 +586,15 @@ export class PeertubePlayerManager {
   private static getAutoPlayValue (autoplay: any) {
     if (autoplay !== true) return autoplay
 
-    // Giving up with iOS
-    if (isIOS()) return false
-
-    // We have issues with autoplay and Safari.
-    // any that tries to play using auto mute seems to work
-    if (isSafari()) return 'any'
+    // We have issues with autoplay and Safari with webtorrent
+    if (isIOS()) {
+      // On first play, disable autoplay to avoid issues
+      // But if the player already played videos, we can safely autoplay next ones
+      return PeertubePlayerManager.alreadyPlayed ? 'play' : false
+    } else if (isSafari()) {
+      // Issues with Safari and webtorrent on first play
+      return PeertubePlayerManager.alreadyPlayed ? 'play' : false
+    }
 
     return 'play'
   }
diff --git a/client/src/assets/player/webtorrent/webtorrent-plugin.ts b/client/src/assets/player/webtorrent/webtorrent-plugin.ts
index 5c8aca1f8..782c91cbd 100644
--- a/client/src/assets/player/webtorrent/webtorrent-plugin.ts
+++ b/client/src/assets/player/webtorrent/webtorrent-plugin.ts
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class WebTorrentPlugin extends Plugin {
     this.startTime = timeToInt(options.startTime)
 
     // Disable auto play on iOS
-    this.autoplay = options.autoplay && isIOS() === false
+    this.autoplay = options.autoplay
     this.playerRefusedP2P = !getStoredP2PEnabled()
 
     this.videoFiles = options.videoFiles
@@ -329,11 +329,6 @@ class WebTorrentPlugin extends Plugin {
   private tryToPlay (done?: (err?: Error) => void) {
     if (!done) done = function () { /* empty */ }
 
-    // Try in mute mode because we have issues with Safari
-    if (isSafari() && this.player.muted() === false) {
-      this.player.muted(true)
-    }
-
     const playPromise = this.player.play()
     if (playPromise !== undefined) {
       return playPromise.then(() => done())