YouTube Live Events playback is supported by the YTPlayerView iOS helper classes. The player will process the video in real time in the same way as regular YouTube video (how the iFrame player should play), and your video should play without problems with the “Live Broadcast” message, replacing the player’s scrubber as follows:

The only difference I noticed is that the video will return the quality value of "auto". I sent a patch to handle this case, which has been merged with the official repo here .
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