Empty system player after playback ended

[h0shy]

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Description of the problem

When the player ended and the screen is locked, the system player still presents empty playback controls.

Not sure if it's a bug or can be fixed.

Relevant stack trace or log output

Reproducibility

Always

Steps to reproduce

1. let the player reach ended state
2. lock the screen

Library version

6.0.0

Operating system

iOS 18.3.1

Code sample

No response

[defagos]

Thanks for your bug report.

If you want Control Center to disappear from the lock screen at the end of playback, this is a system behavior and we cannot do much at the Pillarbox level.

But still there is a behavior we can improve here. At the end of playback, the Control Center is currently not returned to the previous application which was using it. Pillarbox steals the Control Center, which should not be the case since it is not using it anymore.

This behavior is intended in between player items (so that the Control Center is not briefly returned to a previous app when you are navigating a playlist in the Control Center itself), but not when the player sits idle. We will open a PR to solve this issue.

[h0shy]

Thanks for your response. I was suspecting this might be unfixable. Returning the control center to the previous app will definitely mitigate the issue.