Hi,
After updating to iOS 26, our app is facing playback failures with AVPlayer. The same code and streams work fine on iOS 18 and earlier.
Error - Domain[CoreMediaErrorDomain]:Code[-15628]:Desc[The operation couldn’t be completed.]:Underlying Error Domain[(null)]:Code[0]:Desc[(null)]
Environment:
iOS version: ios 26
React Native: 0.69
Video library: react-native-video (AVPlayer under the hood)
Stream type: HLS (m3u8) with segment (.ts) files
Observed behaviour:
Playback works initially on iOS 26.
On iOS 26, the stream fails at runtime after a few seconds/minutes (not on first load).
Network logs show 307 redirects on some segment requests. After this, AVPlayer throws the above error.
Playback fails intermittently on slow/unstable networks.
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