NEW 239602
Non Safari browsers kill audio when going to background 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239602
Summary Non Safari browsers kill audio when going to background
Dan Jenkins
Reported 2022-04-21 06:50:40 PDT
Presumably this relates to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217948 Its a really bad experience when Safari allows this but other non safari browsers using webkit can't Aim: For browsers to act the same on ios - if you background safari on ios, it kills video but lets audio continue - non safari browsers like chrome and firefox can't support that - they kill audio and video. Chrome's info.plist can be found at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/tags/100.0.4896.85/ios/chrome/app/resources/Info.plist#100
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2022-04-24 13:31:44 PDT
<rdar://problem/92238462>
chrisguttandin
Comment 2 2023-09-21 12:57:28 PDT
It looks like https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/b3e3f3725328eb8317a0c01cdd865f582729b15a#diff-eb53128982f06de1812918219a404f7c15e38696bcc608e7e362691b04211ff5 lifted the restriction for other browsers on iOS. However installed web apps still suffer from this problem.
BryanE
Comment 3 2023-12-26 09:09:06 PST
Has anyone found a workaround for this? Installed web apps still lose the microphone as soon as they go into background (or screen locked). But when loaded in Safari, Safari continues to be able to access the microphone even if backgrounded or screen locked.
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