iOS Carplay is interrupted even if audio settings are turned off
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The Ingress Prime violates the Apple's official Carplay guidelines about audio API. Even if the app has all the volume settings disabled/down, the app highjacks the audio and interrupts all existing audio broadcasts.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/carplay
"Let people choose when to start playback. In general, avoid beginning playback automatically unless your app’s purpose is to play a single source of audio, or your app is resuming previously interrupted audio. Also, avoid starting an audio session until you’re ready to actually play audio because starting a session silences other audio sources, like the car’s built-in radio."
I have also reported this to Apple for better communication between Niantic and Apple so that the violation can be fixed faster so that the app is not being pulled off from app store.
iOS 17.3.1, Ingress Prime 2.136.1
Comments
There have to be more of us affected by this? Switching out of Ingress and then back in switches the audio source in Carplay every single time.
This has the effect of causing my vehicle radio to stop playing, and I have to manually switch the audio source on my vehicle's dashboard to keep listening. Ingress should not be taking over the audio like this.
Pogo does it too, fwiw.