@DTS Engineer Thanks for your response. I do have a feedback report, ID 22584925. Before filing the report I also tested on the latest iOS 26 beta (26.5b3), and the issue persists.

@DTS Engineer do you know if the issue where samples get recreated multiple times has been fixed in iOS 26.1? I don't see it in the changelog and no one responded to my feedback report (FB20281674).

Yes, that works - I cannot reproduce the bug using that API. That's a much simpler workaround than what I've been doing. Thanks!