How to Validate Now Playing Events on Apple Devices (iOS/tvOS)?

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vivek_kumar_irdeto OP

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Hi Support Team,

I need some guidance regarding Now Playing metadata integration on Apple platforms (iOS/tvOS).

We are currently implementing Now Playing events in our application and would like to understand:

How can we enable or configure logging for Now Playing metadata updates? Is there any recommended way or tool to verify that Now Playing events are correctly sent and received by the system (e.g., Control Center / external devices)? Are there any debugging techniques or best practices to validate metadata updates during development?

Our app is currently in the development phase, and we are working towards meeting Video Partner Program (VPP) requirements.

Any documentation, tools, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your support.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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Thanks for taking the time to share your question here. Unfortunately, it hasn't received an answer yet. Here are a few suggestions that might help it attract more attention:

Provide more details: Expanding on your post to include any error messages, code snippets, steps you've already taken to troubleshoot, and the expected/actual outcomes would be very helpful.
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I'm sure someone in the community will be able to help once you have a chance to update your post.

I can point you to the great WWDC video about If you are using AVPlayerViewController on tvOS https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10191/, it handles a lot of Now Playing info automatically. However, if you are building a custom player interface, you need to ensure updatesNowPlayingInfoCenter on your player is managed correctly so your manual updates do not fight with AVFoundation's automatic updates.

Hope this helps.

Albert  WWDR

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