How do I keep an app (ie The Platform radio show) going in the background on my iPad Air while then opening another app eg Facebook, download emails etc. At present, it switches off though I haven’t closed it down. Thanks in advance
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might be part of their app that does that. iheart will stay playing in background and spotify, podcasts an dmany others.
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Mehrts:
The Youtube app does the same thing with its audio. You can't close the app and coninue having the audio playing in the background.
YMMV but I found a hack that worked for me, open youtube in safari browser and it will play even when closed.
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onetapu:
No I haven’t disabled the app refresh
might have to complain to the app developer....I don't think it's anything you've done (or not done)
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Mehrts:
The Youtube app does the same thing with its audio. You can't close the app and coninue having the audio playing in the background.
You can with YouTube Premium, so it's an option/choice by the app developers.
The ability to have an app conintue to play in the background is purely in the hands of the app developer. You're best to contact them, leave a review/suggestion in the app store and request that they update their app to allow it.
Senecio:
The ability to have an app conintue to play in the background is purely in the hands of the app developer. You're best to contact them, leave a review/suggestion in the app store and request that they update their app to allow it.
thanks for that. Would have thought it would have been in their best interests to have it not switch off constantly!? Maybe The Platform app is a relatively unsophisticated app I’m thinking
onetapu:
Senecio:
The ability to have an app conintue to play in the background is purely in the hands of the app developer. You're best to contact them, leave a review/suggestion in the app store and request that they update their app to allow it.
thanks for that. Would have thought it would have been in their best interests to have it not switch off constantly!? Maybe The Platform app is a relatively unsophisticated app I’m thinking
if it has advertising on screen, they may prefer you're looking at it all the time (I think that's the logic youtube went under)
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Senecio: Yep. If the app is ad supported then it’s not in their interest to support background playing. But you could ask them to put it behind a small paywall like YouTube premium does.
I believe they are just about to do just that.
For soma fm it works great on my iPad Air. ;-)
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