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Hi guys,
Can I use CMIO to achieve the following feature on macOS when a USB device (Camera/Mic/Speaker) is connected:
When a third-party video conferencing app is not in a meeting, ensure the app defaults to using the USB device (Camera/Mic/Speaker).
When a third-party conferencing app is in a meeting, ensure the app automatically switches to the USB device (Camera/Mic/Speaker).
Has anyone been able to successfully use MusicCatalogSearchRequest in a playgrounds app?
I have configured my playground similar to a regular app: app id with automatic music token generation turned on, music access authorized within the app itself, but whenever I query MusicCatalogSearchRequest I get an error thrown with .developerTokenRequestFailed.
Considering musickit is restricted in the sim, it would not surprise me if it was the same in playgrounds but it would be super helpful if I could prototype with musickit in playgrounds 4!
Hi everyone,
I’m exploring using the iPhone 17 Pro with the Blackmagic ProDock in a custom capture app. The genlock functionality seems accessible via AVExternalSyncDevice and related APIs, which is great.
I’m specifically curious about external timecode coming in from the ProDock:
• Is there a public way to access the timecode feed in a custom app via AVFoundation or another Apple API?
• If so, what is the recommended approach to read or apply that timecode during capture?
• Are there any current limitations or entitlements required to access timecode from ProDock in a third-party app?
I’m excited to start integrating synchronized capture in my app, and any guidance or sample patterns would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
— [Artem]
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Video
Hello, We have Video Stream app. It has HLS VOD Content. We supply 1080p, 4K Contents to users. Users were watching 1080p content before tvOS 26. Users can not watch 1080p content anymore when they update to tvOS 26. We have not changed anything at HLS playlist side and application version. This problem only occurs on Apple TV 4th Gen (A1625) tvOS 26 version. There is no problem with newer Apple TV devices. Would you help to resolve problem? Thanks in advance
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Streaming
Tags:
FairPlay Streaming
Apple TV
tvOS
HTTP Live Streaming
In the past, when using Lightning, many external devices had to go through MFi certification. However, since the iPhone 15 switched from Lightning to USB-C, is MFi certification still required?
Our company has developed several UVC devices, and we have confirmed that iPads can read frames from external cameras through the external device type in AVFoundation. However, this is not supported on iPhones.
We are currently exploring feasible ways to enable UVC device support on iPhones. Is MFi certification the only option? If so, is the MFi certification process for USB-C the same as it was for Lightning? Does it still require purchasing an MFi chip and manufacturing specially designed USB-C cables?
Hi,
I'm a fan of the gallery in vision pro which has video as well as still photography but I'm wondering if Apple has considered adding the projected media tags to heic so that we can go that next step from Spatial photos to Immersive photos. I have a device that can give me 12k x 6k fisheye images in HDR, but it can't do it at a framerate or resolution that's good enough for video, so I want to cut my losses and show off immersive photos instead. Is there something Apple is already working on for APMP stills or should I create my own app that reads metadata inside a HEIC that I infer in a similar way to the demo "ProjectedMediaConversion" is doing for Video. It would be great to have 180VR photos, which could show as Spatial in a gallery view, but going immersive would half-surround you instead of floating in the blurred view. I think that would be a pretty amazing effect.
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Photos & Camera
Hi everyone,
I'm developing a visionOS app for Apple Vision Pro, and I've encountered an issue related to window resizing at runtime when using AVPlayer to play a live HLS stream.
✅ What I'm Trying to Do
Play a live HLS stream (from Wowza) inside my app using AVPlayer.
Support resizing the immersive window using Vision Pro’s built-in runtime scaling gesture.
Stream works fine at default window size when the app launches.
❌ Problem
If I resize the app’s window at runtime (using the Vision Pro pinch-drag gesture), then try to start the stream, it does not play.
Instead, it just shows the "Loading live stream..." state and never proceeds to playback.
This issue only occurs after resizing the window — if I don’t resize, the stream works perfectly every time.
🧪 What I’ve Tried
Verified the HLS URL — it’s working and plays fine in Safari and in the app before resizing.
Set .automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = false on AVPlayer.
Observed that .status on AVPlayerItem never reaches .readyToPlay after resizing.
Tried to force window size back using UIWindowScene.requestGeometryUpdate(...), but behavior persists.
I'm getting this error when I launch my application on the iPhone 14 Pro via Xcode. Everything builds OK. I"m using the audio kit plugin and Sound Pipe Audiokit.
The error starts as soon as I start the app and will carry on repeatedly.
I have background processing turned on as I'd like the sounds to play when the phone is locked via the headphones.
I can't find anything online about this error. None of my catches are printing anything in the logs either. So I don't know if this is just something that pops up repeatedly or whether there is something fundamentally wrong.
private func setupAudioSession() {
do {
let session = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
try session.setCategory(.playback, mode: .default, options: [.mixWithOthers])
try session.setActive(true, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation)
} catch {
errorMessage = "Failed to set up audio session: (error.localizedDescription)"
print(errorMessage ?? "")
}
}
// MARK: - Background Task Handling
private func setupBackgroundTaskHandling() {
// Handle app entering background
notificationObservers.append(
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
forName: UIApplication.didEnterBackgroundNotification,
object: nil,
queue: .main,
using: { [weak self] _ in
// Safely unwrap self
guard let self = self else { return }
self.handleBackgroundTransition()
}
)
)
I'm not sure if this is the code causing the issue. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. This is my first app I'm working on .
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
Hello,
We are developing a real-time speech recognition application and are utilizing AVAudioEngine with voice processing enabled on the input node. However, we have observed that enabling this mode interferes with the built-in iOS screen recording feature - specifically, the recorded video does not capture any audio when this mode is active.
Since we want users to be able to record their experience within our app, this issue significantly impacts our functionality. Is there a known workaround or recommended approach to ensure that both voice processing and screen recording can function simultaneously?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Hi,
I am trying to remove the audio controls for my app on the lock screen. Since I use WKWebView, there are 3 audio tags in my html and I play and pause em via JS. However, if I do not play any sound since app launch, there are no audio controls on the lock screen. But if I play one of those 3 files (they are even less then 3 Sec sound effects e.g. for buttons) the audio controls appears on lock screen.
Note even when the sounds on pause() or not playing they were listed on the lock screen.
What I have tried so far without success
MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = [:]
and
``try audioSession.setCategory(.playback, mode: .default, options: [])
try audioSession.setActive(false, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation)``
and
UIApplication.shared.endReceivingRemoteControlEvents()
Another problem is that the app scales with iOS system settings "display zoom". Is there a way to deny it?
It is latest Xcode verion 16.3 and iOS 18.
I have no background mode in my Capabilities.
Nothing worked so far. Has anyone an idea?
Greetings
We have been using passthrough in screen capture since visionOS26 with broadcast upload extension which was working in visionOS2.2 but now with visionOS26 it doesn't update. It fails with Invalid Broadcast session started, after a few seconds of starting the broadcast session.
Is there a bug filed for it? or is it a known bug for it?
I'm using a 4 channel USB Audio interface, with 4 microphones, and want to process them through 4 independent effect chains. However the output from AVAudioInputNode is a single 4 channel bus. How can I split this into 4 mono busses?
The following code splits the input into 4 copies, and routes them through the effects, but each bus contains all four channels. How can I remap the channels to remove the unwanted channels from the bus? I tried using channelMap on the mixer node but that had no effect.
I'm currently using this code primarily on iOS but it should be portable between iOS and MacOS. It would be possible to do this through a Matrix Mixer Node, but that seems completely overkill, for such a basic operation. I'm already using a Matrix Mixer to combine the inputs, and it's not well supported in AVAudioEngine.
AVAudioInputNode *inputNode=[engine inputNode];
[inputNode setVoiceProcessingEnabled:NO error:nil];
NSMutableArray *micDestinations=[NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:trackCount];
for(i=0;i<trackCount;i++)
{
fixMicFormat[i]=[AVAudioMixerNode new];
[engine attachNode:fixMicFormat[i]];
// And create reverb/compressor and eq the same way...
[engine connect:reverb[i] to:matrixMixerNode fromBus:0 toBus:i format:nil];
[engine connect:eq[i] to:reverb[i] fromBus:0 toBus:0 format:nil];
[engine connect:compressor[i] to:eq[i] fromBus:0 toBus:0 format:nil];
[engine connect:fixMicFormat[i] to:compressor[i] fromBus:0 toBus:0 format:nil];
[micDestinations addObject:[[AVAudioConnectionPoint alloc] initWithNode:fixMicFormat[i] bus:0] ];
}
AVAudioFormat *inputFormat = [inputNode outputFormatForBus: 1];
[engine connect:inputNode toConnectionPoints:micDestinations fromBus:1 format:inputFormat];
TL;DR How to solve possible racing issue of EXT-X-SESSION-KEY request and encrypted media segment request?
I'm having trouble using custom AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate with video manifest containing VideoProtectionKey(VPK). My master manifest contains rendition manifest url and VPK url. When not using custom resource delegate, everything works fine.
My custom resource delegate is implemented in way where it first append prefix to scheme of the master manifest url before creating the asset. And during handling master manifest, it puts back original scheme, make the request, modify the scheme for rendition manifest url in the response content by appending the same prefix again, so that rendition manifest request also goes into custom resource loader delegate. Same goes for VPK request. The AES-128 key is stored in memory within custom resource loader delegate object. So far so good.
The VPK is requested before segment request. But the problem comes where the media segment requests happen. The media segment request url from rendition manifest goes into custom resource loader as well and those are encrypted. I can see segment request finish first then the related VPK requests kick in after a few seconds. The previous VPK value is cached in memory so it is not network causing the delay but some mechanism that I'm not aware of causing this.
So could anyone tell me what would be the proper way of handling this situation? The native library is handling it well so I just want to know how. Thanks in advance!
I’m encountering a consistent crash in WebKit when using WKWebView to play a YouTube playlist in my iOS app. Playback starts successfully, but the web process terminates during the second video in the playlist. This only occurs on physical devices, not in the simulator.
Here’s a simplified Swift example of my setup:
import SwiftUI
import WebKit
struct ContentView: View {
private let playlistID = "PLig2mjpwQBZnghraUKGhCqc9eAy0UbpDN"
var body: some View {
YouTubeWebView(playlistID: playlistID)
.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
}
}
struct YouTubeWebView: UIViewRepresentable {
let playlistID: String
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> WKWebView {
let config = WKWebViewConfiguration()
config.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config)
webView.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = true
let html = """
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
<style>body,html{height:100%;margin:0;background:#000}iframe{width:100%;height:100%;border:0}</style>
</head>
<body>
<iframe
src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/videoseries?list=\(playlistID)&controls=1&rel=0&playsinline=1&iv_load_policy=3"
frameborder="0"
allow="encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; fullscreen"
webkit-playsinline
allowfullscreen
></iframe>
</body>
</html>
"""
webView.loadHTMLString(html, baseURL: nil)
return webView
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: WKWebView, context: Context) {}
}
#Preview {
ContentView()
}
Observed behavior:
First video plays without issue.
Web process crashes when the second video in the playlist starts.
Console logs show WebProcessProxy::didClose and repeated memory status messages.
Using ProcessAssertion or background activity does not prevent the crash.
Only occurs on physical devices; simulators do not reproduce the issue.
Questions:
Is there something I should change or add in my WKWebView setup or HTML/iframe to prevent the crash when playing the second video in a playlist on physical iOS devices?
Is there an officially supported way to limit memory or prevent WebKit from terminating the web process during multi-video playback?
Are there recommended patterns for playing YouTube playlists in a WKWebView on iOS without risking crashes?
Any tips for debugging or configuring WKWebView to make it more stable for continuous playlist playback?
Thanks in advance for any guidance!
I created a virtual audio device to capture system audio with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. After capturing the audio, I forward it to the hardware sound card using AVAudioEngine, also with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. However, due to the clock sources being unsynchronized, problems occur after a period of playback. How can I retrieve the clock source of the hardware device and set it for the virtual device?
I'm developing an iOS app that requires continuous audio recording.
Currently, when a phone call comes in, the AVAudioSession is interrupted and recording stops completely during the ringing phase.
While I understand recording should stop if the call is answered, my app needs to continue recording while the phone is merely ringing.
I've observed that Apple's Voice Memos app maintains recording during incoming call rings. This indicates the hardware and iOS are capable of supporting this functionality.
Request
Please advise on any available AVAudioSession configurations or APIs that would allow my app to:
Continue recording during an incoming call ring
Only stop recording if/when the call is actually answered
Impact
This interruption significantly impacts the user experience and core functionality of my app. Workarounds like asking users to enable airplane mode are impractical and create a poor user experience.
Questions
Is there an approved way to maintain microphone access during call rings?
If not currently possible, could this capability be considered for addition to a future iOS SDK?
Are there any interim solutions or best practices Apple recommends for this use case?
Thank you for your help.
SUPPORT INFORMATION
Did someone from Apple ask you to submit a code-level support request?
No
Do you have a focused test project that demonstrates your issue?
Yes, I have a focused test project to submit with my request
What code level support issue are you having?
Problems with an Apple framework API in my app
I'm wondering if someone happened issues with currentPlaybackRate in released version of iOS 26.0?
There is no issue happened in case of iOS 18.5.
When I changed currentPlaybackRate on iOS 26.0, it seems to unexpectedly change currentPlaybackRate to be 0 or 1.0 forcibly no matter DRM or non-DRM contents. And also, playing music will be abnormal behavior and unstable with noise if currentPlaybackRate is not 1.0. And changes stop state and play state frequently.
Does the library exists in xCode 16.4?
"import WorldCaptureKit" gives error "No such module 'WorldCaptureKit'".
And I do not find any information about the library in the apple documentation.
But AI keeps suggesting me to use the library
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Photos & Camera
After upgrading to iOS 18.4, I'm no longer able to establish an AirPlay v1 connection to an audio system. The symptom is that the AirPlay route picker just spins when trying to connect to an audio system. It eventually gives up.
I tested this on an iPhone 14, connecting to a HomePod, AirPort express, AppleTV and a Wiim Pro. If I try connecting with AirPlay v2, ex: using Apple Music, the connection succeeds and audio can be played.
I'm the developer of an app that plays audio over AirPlay while also recording. My app has to use AirPlay v1 because AvAudioSession doesn't allow the policy .longFormAudio when the category is .playAndRecord. This issue is a real pain as it means my app is suddenly broken for many thousands of users.
Is anyone else seeing this issue? Any suggestions for a workaround?