When watching live TV or recordings on my iPhone, I’d like audio playback to continue even when switching apps. When I try this today, it just immediately stops playback and requires a long reload time to start watching again when switching back to the app. Usage scenario is simply that I might wan…

Please continue TV playback in background on iOS

tom80H Archived August 30, 2021, 12:13am 2

2021 clean-up: duplicate

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