"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.