# Playing past broadcasts on iOS

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/playing-past-broadcasts-on-ios/376>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [January 19, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/playing-past-broadcasts-on-ios/376 "2014-01-19T22:00:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![frankacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce73a5/32.png) [@frankacy](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/frankacy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/playing-past-broadcasts-on-ios/376/1 "2014-01-19T22:00:31Z")

</div>

Hi guys,

I’m developing an iPad app which, among other things, provides a custom frontend to some Twitch functionality. I’ve already figured out how to get streams and play them using the HTML5 player in a UIWebView. I was wondering if something similar exists for archived video.

I see that the endpoint exists, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to play past broadcasts using anything other than the flash player.

Could someone confirm/deny if this is true? If it’s impossible to play past broadcasts on iOS, is there any timeline on when that functionality will be added?

Thanks!  
-Frank

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gareth](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/gareth/32/179_2.png) [@gareth](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/gareth)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/playing-past-broadcasts-on-ios/376/2 "2014-01-21T16:34:17Z")

</div>

Currently there is no way to view past broadcasts using anything other than the flash player.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![frankacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce73a5/32.png) [@frankacy](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/frankacy)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/playing-past-broadcasts-on-ios/376/3 "2014-01-21T17:04:21Z")

</div>

Thanks for your input Gareth, it’s much appreciated. I was wondering if there’s any planned support for this in the future? The video integration options on iOS are quite limited, which is really unfortunate =\

Thanks again!  
-Frank

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gareth](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/gareth/32/179_2.png) [@gareth](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/gareth)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/playing-past-broadcasts-on-ios/376/4 "2014-01-21T17:20:40Z")

</div>

Yes, there are plans but sadly we can’t go into what they are right now.

If you contact [brooke@twitch.tv](mailto:brooke@twitch.tv) he is our account manager, depending on what you are working on NDAs might be able to be signed etc.