Application tones start when I get incoming call or message

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vishybear OP

Created Apr ’25

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I've got a problem with my app where I'm testing it on my own phone.

I'm using audio kit to generate tones as part of the app. Everything seems to work fine. Sounds start, Stop, etc. They play when the app is closed and when the phone is locked, so background is working.

However, I'm seeing an issue where, even when STOP is pressed and the application exited, if I get a notification such as a text message, the base tone for the app starts to play.

If I then open the app, check the Start/Stop button - it says start so that. hasnt' been activated. If I click Start, then a 2nd tone starts. This one stops with the Stop button. However the original tone that was set off by an incoming message carries on playing.

Until I go to the Open Apps View on the phone and slide the application upwards.

For the life of me, I can't figure out whats happening here.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

May ’25

Do you have a screen recording showing this behavior?

Do you get the same results with just the relevant code in a small test project? If so, please share a link to your test project. That'll help us better understand what's going on. If you're not familiar with preparing a test project, take a look at Creating a test project.

A focused Xcode project that builds and demonstrates the issue. Ideally this will be a new Xcode project created specifically to demonstrate this issue, and which includes only the minimal code and API necessary to reproduce the issue. This focuses on the important code paths and may require you to perform additional debugging to extract the relevant code. Please do not include any 3rd-party code or frameworks unless they are absolutely required for this targeted test project to run.

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