Handling Audio Interruptions in an iOS Music App with AVPlayer
The Problem I was building a Subsonic-based music streaming app. Background playback worked fine — until I noticed something odd: Play a song, send the app to the background Open YouTube and play a video (music stops — expected) Close the YouTube video Come back to the app: the pause button is showing, but no audio is playing The UI says “playing” while the actual audio is paused. Tapping the button toggles it to play, then you have to tap again. Broken UX. ...