Oh good idea, but I had that explicitly set to 'NO'. But I also had Supports opening documents in place set to 'YES'. Changing that one to 'NO' seemed to do the trick. Thanks for your suggestion.

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@apexskier If I do that I'm unable to build the tests locally. How exactly do you have this working?

Sorry I don't remember the specifics b/c I never implemented it. Have a look at ActivityKit or how to schedule background tasks. Good luck.

Yea I think you can schedule them to be played, and I think that's how those apps work. But from what I could tell the timing is very imprecise with that approach, which didn't work for my use case. Live Activities with ActivityKit was another approach I tried, but also didn't work for the same reason.

Hi @Jackson-G Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible. After researching it seems apps can do periodic background tasks, but they cannot play audio.

"SwiftData doesn’t preserve order of arrays" I'm also noticing this and am confounded by all the workarounds required to get my nested arrays sorted. There must be a better way? or future support coming? I hope.