Any iPhone pros here?

[DevaVictrix]

If I play the radio using BBC Sounds I can turn the screen off and carry listening but if I do the same with Jellyfin or my browser the music stops.

How do I continue to listen to music with something other than Sounds or Apple Music?

Thanks

[metamec]

It's a limitation of iOS webview/WKWebView. It aggressively stops background processes when the screen locks. This is why Jellyfin *still* has this problem on iPhone.

The BBC Sounds app isn't affected because it uses native iOS APIs for rendering and audio. This approach to app development is slower but grants lower level system access—avoiding framework-specific issues like you're experiencing.

All you can really do is disable the screen lock (not a great habit to get into), find an alternative *native* app which works like Jellyfin, or... get an Android phone. (Sorry. Really not trying to be smart here. You can enable this permission for any Android app, regardless of the frameworks they utilise.)

[Quint]

Welcome to iOS.

[DevaVictrix]

Ahh, thank you. Not just setting I couldn’t find then. The jellyfin devs released an app called Swiftfin a while ago… hopefully that was written with swift and will eventually play music too.

A mere 500kb of persistent storage on Apple TV is also a drag… I guess it’s all so you might subscribe to Apple Music and Arcade.

I’ll have to look at using a different container for music… hopefully one will have an iOS app that allows it to work the way everyone wants.