In the latest production release of our iOS app (deployed via the App Store), we’ve observed a significant increase in AVCaptureSessionWasInterrupted notifications where the interruption reason has a rawValue of 4. The session does not automatically recover, even after returning from background or deleting/reinstalling the app. An employee ran into this and was able to get a recording. We see the below error when attempting to take photos.
"Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11803 \"Cannot Record\" UserInfo={AVErrorRecordingFailureDomainKey=3, NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot Record, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Try recording again.}",
}
This interruption causes the camera preview to remain black, and any attempt to capture an image results in a failure with the following error:
Some questions from our team:
What common system conditions or foreground app behaviors can cause .videoDeviceNotAvailableWithMultipleForegroundApps (reason 4) to become persistent? Our teams under is under the impression the interruption reason 4 is mostly associated with iPad and PiP, but neither of these are true in the logs we see.
Is manual recovery of the session required?
Is there a recommended strategy to detect that the session is unrecoverable and gracefully notify the user or rebuild the session?
Is there an instrument(s) in XCode you would recommend when trying to evaluate the increase in reason 4?
Best,
Ben
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