Popping Sound

Good day. A video I created via iOS AVAssetWriter with the following settings: let videoWriterInput = AVAssetWriterInput( mediaType: .video, outputSettings: [ AVVideoCodecKey: AVVideoCodecType.hevc, AVVideoWidthKey: 1080, AVVideoHeightKey: 1920, AVVideoCompressionPropertiesKey: [ AVVideoAverageBitRateKey: 2_000_000, AVVideoMaxKeyFrameIntervalKey: 30 ], ] ) let audioWriterInput = AVAssetWriterInput( mediaType: .audio, outputSettings: [ AVFormatIDKey: kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC, AVNumberOfChannelsKey: 2, AVSampleRateKey: 44100, AVEncoderBitRateKey: 128000 ] ) When It is split into fMP4 HLS format using ffmpeg, the video is unable to be played in iOS with the following error: CoreMediaErrorDomain error -12848 However, the video is played normally in Android, Browser HLS players, and also VLC Media Player. Please assist. Thank you.

As a very exclusive Apple only I want to share my thoughts on the new iOS 26 update, which I recently installed on my iPhone 16. While I genuinely appreciate Apple’s drive for innovation and personalization, this update introduces visual and stylistic changes that, in my opinion, compromise what has made iOS feel uniquely Apple for so long. Liquid Glass & Home Screen Aesthetics: When I first saw previews of the “Liquid Glass” design, I was excited. I assumed it would add more flexibility to things like the home screen customization — something like an optional effect that builds on the popular app tinting feature introduced in the previous iOS version. But instead, it appears that the Liquid Glass look is now the default and, more concerningly, unavoidable. The result is a visual experience that feels dramatically more bubbly and less refined. App icons appear more rounded and inflated in a way that — and I say this as constructively as I can — reminds me more of Android or Samsung’s One UI than of Apple’

I am scheduling critical user notifications with a custom sound. This worked for years both on devices and in the simulator. Since Xcode 26 it crashes in simulator. Example let content = UNMutableNotificationContent() content.title = Critical content.body = Example content.sound = UNNotificationSound.criticalSoundNamed(UNNotificationSoundName(notification.aiff), withAudioVolume: 0.5) content.interruptionLevel = .critical let trigger = UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger(timeInterval: 10, repeats: false) let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: exampleCriticalNotification, content: content, trigger: trigger) UNUserNotificationCenter.current().add(request) It seems that simpler variants such as just content.interuptionLevel = .critical or just content.sound = UNNotificationSound.defaultCritical also crash. I assume that critical notifications is a small niche use case but i still hope this gets fixed. This is filed as FB20272392 with a full crash log.

Regular apns will give you a willPresent callback and there you can decide to suppress showing the notification or suppress its sound etc. I know the iOS app will give you callbacks for when there's a contentUpdate, yet that doesn't give the option to change the sound. Is there a way to suppress sound of a received Live Activity when app is in foreground?

Hello, Our app gets rejected for the reason that the reviewer cannot purchase the subscription with the message, Guideline 2.1 - Performance - App Completeness We found that your in-app purchase products exhibited one or more bugs which create a poor user experience. Specifically, we were unable to purchase Auto-Renewable Subscriptions. The app launched back to the rendering when we tap on the Get started When we test this with our sandbox accounts in test flight version, we can see the subscribe pop up showing and purchase successfully. But turns out they cannot. Unfortunately we cannot see the reason why and even after requesting further explanation regarding how to move along, we are not getting any explanations. Our subscription products are submitted in the first time with the app and they are in In review state for more than a week. We requested phone calls and wrote messages to reviewers many times but unfortunately there's no help yet.

Hi! Short time lurker, and first time poster, but I will try to be as descriptive as possible. I have had my HomePod mini since 2021, and have been loving it. Recently, though, I am facing issues which have paralyzed it. Background: Running two HomePod Minis under a stereo pair on the same network in a room. Devices worked well, with the odd dropping of the sound once a while, not too big of an issue. Started running HomePod OS26 beta in July to see what the new updates have, and maybe if the audio issues would be resolved. Issue: Two weeks ago, the after the (then) latest update, there was a no response issue in the app. No big deal, let's just restart the HomePod pair. After restart, no bueno. I also got a new beta software update notification, so decided if I updated them both, the issue will probably be resolved. No dice. The issue persists. So I decided to pair the HomePods and factory reset them. Both HomePods disappeared from my home app. Regular behavior. Going to reset them with the

I'm currently I'm working on an iOS app + custom keyboard extension, and I’m hoping to get some insight into how to best architect a workflow where the keyboard acts as a remote trigger for dictation, but the main app handles the actual microphone recording and transcription. I know that third-party keyboards are sandboxed and can’t access the microphone directly, so the pattern I’m following is similar to what Wispr Flow appears to be doing: What I'm Trying to Build The user taps a mic button in the custom keyboard (installed system-wide). This triggers the main app to open, start a recording session, and send the audio to my transcription endpoint (not using Speech.framework). Once the transcription result is ready, it's stored in an App Group shared container. The keyboard extension polls for or receives the transcribed text and inserts it into the current input field via textDocumentProxy.insertText(...). Key Questions Triggering App Dictation from Keyboard Is there a clean system-native way to t

When I turn the Ringtone and Alerts volume all the way up, I expect standard notifications to play at the loudest level the device allows. In theory, this should match the volume of a critical alert with its sound.volume set to 1.0 in payload. However, I’ve noticed that non-critical notifications still play quieter than critical alerts under these conditions. Critical alerts with volume: 1.0 sound noticeably louder than standard notifications, even though the Ringtone and Alerts slider is already set to maximum. And I couldn't find a documentation for this behavior anywhere. Is this expected behavior on iOS? And is there any way to make non-critical notifications play at the same maximum loudness as critical alerts? Thanks in advance for any clarification.