I have confirmed this approach actually preventing the crash. I decided to create and hold a singleton of AVPictureInPictureController and preventing its deallocation in the app's lifetime (will only be dealloc if the app itself is killed) and the crash did disappear in my case. I am not sure if this is intended or not by Apple but for now this solution can help to prevent further crashes. Thanks @SepCode !

My pleasure, thanks for the help also.

Hi, sorry for late check on this. No, I didn't manage to find one so we just rely on the fix from Apple in iOS 16

hi, sorry I haven't check this thread for a while here is my bug number FB9839142, hope it will help the analysis

i did, but there are no updates from Apple side since then and the issue still occurs on latest iOS version, maybe you can just raise another one yourselves.