If I hadn't found this I'm not sure how long I would've been stuck since I typically keep my silent switch turned on all the time. Thank you and for me the issue was specifically related to needing to use the playback property which I'll link below: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfaudio/avaudiosession/category/1616509-playback

I'm going to reach out to Apple, but wanted to ask if anyone else found a working solution to this?

anyone find an update to this?