When we tried using this feature, we were not able to get it to work on iOS 26. We stumbled upon this ticket (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/797538?answerId=854825022#854825022) in the Apple Developer forum, in which possibly an Apple engineer claims it is supported ONLY for iPadOS 26. That engineer would be me, and yes, what I said there is correct. Background GPU access is currently only available on iPads. 96% of the users are on iPhone (compared to iPad), and if we refer to the official documentation above, it claims that this feature should work on iOS 26. What the documentation says is that the APIs themselves are available on iOS and iPadOS and that background GPU access is not available on all devices, both of which are true. This both simplifies the implementation on both platforms and allows for future API evolution without requiring major API revision. This is the same basic pattern most of our APIs use when functionality is only available on some hardware. __ Kevin Ell
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Video