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Hi everyone. This is my first post on these forums, because this is first time I have not found any clues on internet regarding this question.
I need to play sound (text to speech generated by AVSpeechSynthesizer) using a built-in speaker on Apple Watch Series 4+ (WatchOS 6.2.6+).
I was able to make it work for Series 3. However, for series 4, it doesn't play via speakers, it plays via Bluetooth AirPods if they are connected, but they are not – there is no sound at all.
Is it even possible to do? Any advice would be highly appreciated.
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Hi,
What are the requirements / restrictions for a custom iOS Notification sound?
Is this widely available to new apps on the App Store?
I know BBC News & Tinder have custom sounds.
Thanks
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Hi,
when I turn on my mic my speaker volume is low and I cannot hear any game sounds . This happened since I updated to iOS 14 . Can anyone help me with how to solve this issue.
My app is using RemoteIO to record audio. It doesn’t do any playback. RemoteIO seems to be broadly compatible with the new Sound Recognition feature in iOS14, but I’m seeing a glitch when sound recognition is first enabled.
If my app is started and I initialise RemoteIO, and then turn on Sound Recognition (say via control centre), the RemoteIO input callback is not called thereafter, until I tear down the audio unit and set it back up. So something like the following:
Launch app
RemoteIO is initialised and working, can record
Turn on Sound Recognition via Settings or control centre widget
Start recording with already-set up RemoteIO
Recording callback is never again called
Though no input callbacks are seen, kAudioOutputUnitProperty_IsRunning is reported as true, so the audio unit thinks it is active
Tear down audio unit
Set up audio unit again
Recording works
Buffer size is changed, reflecting some effect on the audio session of the Sound Recognition feature
I also noticed that when Sound Recognition is enabled, I see several (usually 3) AVAudioSession.routeChangeNotifications in quick succession. When Sound Recognition is disabled while RemoteIO is set up, I don’t see this problem. I’m allocating my own buffers so it’s not a problem with their size.
What could be going on here? Am I not handling a route change properly? There doesn’t seem to be a reliable sequence of events I can catch to know when to reset the audio unit.
The only fix I’ve found here is to hack in a timer that checks for callback activity shortly after starting recording, and resets the audio unit if no callback activity is seen. Better than nothing, but not super reliable.
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Is it possible to customize haptics on Apple Watch (something like CoreHaptics) rather than using standard haptics out of WatchKit? I'm looking for a way to play a continuous waveform (like a more complex version of Breathe).
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Is there support for playing custom haptic files to the grips of Sony's DualSense Game Controller?
The video mentions supporting the adaptive triggers on the DualSense. We are not finding a way to reference the haptic actuators in the grips. We'd like to play custom haptic files to them as well as audio to the speaker inside the DualSense.
Searched the WWDC21 content as well as the documentation. Have not found the answer yet.
Thank you!
As in, the music gets translated into vibrations which the Taptic Engine then plays.
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I have experienced some issue with ios 14.6 on my iphone 7 plus. Issues are :
system hang! sometime i have experienced on fluent running the apps and phone unlock. Apps get hung during screening and if i get to lock and unlock again it's working back.
sound is also low then before updating ios. I mean loud speaker is not heard as clear and high as before updating to ios 14.6
ringtone volume is not heard as high as before.
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Hi!
We're currently building a web extension with iOS as a primary target.
Since haptics on iOS are really nice, we wanted to make use of it to give the experience a special feel on iPhone.
However, haptics don't seem to work when called from SafariWebExtensionHandler... maybe because the messaging layer between the web extension and the native code is in the background (is it?), and haptics don't work in apps that are in the background.
Anyway, is there any way we can make haptics work regardless?
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Hey everyone, I am a naive in developing of apps but recently created a basic app which asks about coding questions by a quiz taking 4 MCQ as options. So the problem encountered is that whenever a person selects a wrong answer from those MCQ choices, I want the haptic engine on the iPhone to vibrate i.e. to create a feedback so if anyone knows how to do it please give me the guidance and the steps :)
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Will there be more background sounds that will be added? I have a few more suggestions such as:
Rain with Thunder
Light & Heavy Rain Fall
Restaurant Customers talking
Forest Surroundings
I feel like those will be great additions towards the Background sounds and how to improve it well!
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On iOS 15 has anyone else noticed that sometimes notification sounds do not play? Works fine for a while and then nothing, returning again later ?
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In the example code:-
vc.changeElement(GCInputButtonA) {
I get the error. Value of type 'GCVirtualController?' has no member 'changeElement'
I thought the vc reference was view controller but this did not work.
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance
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Hi, what is the best approach of customising the sound (notification) and haptic feedback on apple watch 6 and later? I wonder if I can play a sound/haptic feedback when receiving a remote (can be silent?) notification to apple watch?
Thanks
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I've got volume in my implementation. Too much hurricane force volume. Though, the consistent problem is the volume is blasting when I create a ambient or channel mixer. (not a point or volumetric source. eg. calm breeze sound) I set the level on the mixer and nothing seems to happen. I'd like to set the volume lower.
Though, on the spatial mixer, if I set the gain, rolloff and direct path level on the source node ( a point or volumetric source), then the spatial mixer case appears to work and no blasting audio.
I've been following the wwdc examples. ( watched it about 4 times now) It appears I should not use the source node with the ambient and channel mixers? That seems to be only an option adding the parameter to the spatial mixer. The ambient mixer seems to only want the listener and a quaternion direction. ( I normalized to 1 )
If I set the calibration to relative spl on the sampler node but that always seems to cause blasting audio.
I added the sound assets with dynamic using wav format at 32 bits and 44.1 khz.
Also, are there any examples of the meta parameters? Is that how I could dynamically adjust the level? Think there was a passing reference to it in the wwdc video.
Any pointers would be appreciated. I wonder if I'm making consistent assumptions on how phase works. I try to set up as much as possible before I start the engine. ( especially adding children nodes. )
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Dear Developers who play music … would you consider adding a haptic metronome to the watch to keep a constant beat for musicians as we play gigs?
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We want to use Apple Pay sound effect in one of the commercial App my team is developing. It is an investment app and the sound will play when there is a successful transaction as a notification to the User.
I wanted to know whether it is allowed or are there any licensing/legal issues.
Appreciate your responses.
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IOS mobile app developed using react native and objective C (for push notification), post deployment observed default IOS ringtone and alert notification sound is not visible.
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We are using the following code to check for the haptics support on the device
import CoreHaptics
let hapticCapability = CHHapticEngine.capabilitiesForHardware()
let supportsHaptics: Bool = hapticCapability.supportsHaptics
For some reason it returns false on iPhone 7 not only on my personal device (iOS 13) but some of our users reported the haptic settings missing from our app on iPhones 7 (iOS 15) as well.
I have just checked with this private api call that in fact the devices does support haptics (obviously, it has not physical home button)
extension UIDevice {
var feedbackSupportLevel: Int? {
value(forKey: "_feedbackSupportLevel") as? Int
}
}
let supportsHaptics: Bool = UIDevice.current.feedbackSupportLevel == 2
And it returns true, as expected.
Weird thing is that the haptics work perfectly fine, it's just the haptics support status is incorrect.
So my question is: will we be rejected for checking the value of the _feedbackSupportLevel on UIDevice just to make sure we are correctly displaying available system features for our users on all of the devices?
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I'm working on an app that uses CoreHaptics to play a synchronised pattern of vibrations and audio.
The problem is that the audio only gets played through the iPhones speakers (if the mute switch is not turned on). As soon as I connect my AirPods to the phone the audio stops playing, but the haptics continue.
My code looks something like this:
let engine = CHHapticEngine()
...
var events = [CHHapticEvent]()
...
let volume: Float = 1
let decay: Float = 0.5
let sustained: Float = 0.5
let audioParameters = [
CHHapticEventParameter(parameterID: .audioVolume, value: volume),
CHHapticEventParameter(parameterID: .decayTime, value: decay),
CHHapticEventParameter(parameterID: .sustained, value: sustained)
]
let breathingTimes = pacer.breathingTimeInSeconds
let combinedTimes = breathingTimes.inhale + breathingTimes.exhale
let audioEvent = CHHapticEvent(
audioResourceID: selectedAudio,
parameters: audioParameters,
relativeTime: 0,
duration: combinedTimes
)
events.append(audioEvent)
...
let pattern = try CHHapticPattern(events: events, parameterCurves: [])
let player = try engine.makeAdvancedPlayer(with: pattern)
...
try player.start(atTime: CHHapticTimeImmediate)
My idea to activate an audio session before the player starts, to indicate to the system that audio is played, also didn't changed the outcome:
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)
Is there a different way to route the audio from CoreHaptics to a different output other than the integrated speakers?
