Starting with iOS 26.4 and the iOS 26.4 SDK, the .pauses audiovisual background playback policy is not correctly applied anymore to an AVPlayer having an attached video layer displayed on screen. This means that, when backgrounding a video-playing app (without Picture in Picture support) or locking the device, playback is not paused automatically by the system anymore. This issue affects the Apple TV application as well. We have filed FB22488151 with more information.

Hi, We identified massive amounts of leaked memory with the tvOS 26 standard player user interface as soon as chapters (navigation markers) are involved. Artwork images associated with chapters are not correctly released anymore, leaking memory in chunks of several MiBs. Over time apps will be terminated by the system due to excessive memory consumption. The issue was reported to Apple as tvOS 26 regression: Huge memory leaks associated with navigation marker artworks displayed in the tvOS standard user interface, filed under FB21160665.

For information I stumbled upon a regression with SwiftUI Slider on iOS 26. Its onEditingChanged closure might be called twice when interaction ends, with a final Boolean incorrect value of true provided to the closure. As a result apps cannot reliably rely on this closure to detect when an interaction with the slider starts or ends. I filed a feedback under FB20283439 (iOS 26.0 regression: Slider onEditingChanged closure is unreliable).