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Hotfix for backgrounded/suspended IOS issue #1660
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- Verified working on IOS 14/15/16 - Issue was that after a certain amount of time after backgrounding the app and then coming back (~10-40 secs), audio would be forever muted
I don't have write access, but anybody who does feel free to merge this.
agnelrdx
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Jan 10, 2024
Can someone please merge this PR ??? We want the fix as we are facing issues on older IOS devices.
caleb531
commented
Jul 25, 2024
I would love this fix as well for an app I'm working on. Is there any possibility of this being merged/published soon?
caleb531
commented
Jul 26, 2024
For what it's worth, I realized that my particular issue with the suspending of audio (after returning from inactivity) was being caused by Howler's global autoSuspend setting, not iOS. See below:
autoSuspend
BooleantrueAutomatically suspends the Web Audio AudioContext after 30 seconds of inactivity to decrease processing and energy usage. Automatically resumes upon new playback. Set this property to
falseto disable this behavior.
Disabling this global setting solved my particular issue.
import { Howl, Howler } from 'howler'; Howler.autoSuspend = false;
Hope this helps someone!
caleb531
commented
Aug 4, 2024
Okay, even after setting Howler.autoSuspend = false, I was still experiencing an issue where the sound would stop playing after switching away from iOS Safari, even for a few seconds, then switching back. Applying this PR to my codebase fixed the issue immediately, so thank you @keiththomas1 for this fix!
@goldfire Any possibility of reviewing/merging this PR soon? It would be wonderful to have in the official package.
risenxxx
commented
Aug 5, 2024
To fix this problem, I had to use the fork too. I would be glad if this PR is reviewed faster
aiferrer
commented
Nov 4, 2024
We have to use this fork as well... but It would be great if you could merge this PR as soon as possible! :)
kttmv
commented
Mar 18, 2025
I also confirm this commit fixes the issue. Any chance it could be merged?
akicho8
commented
Oct 4, 2025
It's been quite a while, is there a reason this hasn't been merged?
Issue/Feature
Issue was that after a certain amount of time after backgrounding the app and then coming back (~10-40 secs), audio would be forever muted.
Related Issues
Solution
Reproduction/Testing
On IOS 14/15/16, background an app using Howler for 10/20/30/40/50 seconds, and then return to that app and observe if audio is working or not.
Breaking Changes
This could break instances where the state is 'running' and we should not be resuming the context because the state is not interrupted, but I haven't seen this happen yet in testing.