I agree with the posters here – it is very surprising that we are not able to get a notification for when the queue has ended. I imagine the MPMusicPlayer framework can emit a notification like "MPMusicPlayerControllerQueueEnded" – it is clearly doing its own cleanup operations when a queue actually ends, so it should be straightforward to add this in. I have hacked around this with a non-ideal solution, one that I'm afraid this might not cover all edge cases. I run this on receiving a MPMusicPlayerControllerPlaybackStateDidChange notification: if player.playbackState == .paused, let currentTrack = currentTrack,    currentTrack == queue.last,    player.currentPlaybackTime >= currentTrack.unwrappedDuration - 1 {             EndOfQueueManager.handler() } And I run this on receiving a MPMusicPlayerControllerNowPlayingItemDidChange notification: if UIApplication.shared.applicationState != .active,            queuePosition == queue.count - 1 {             EndOfQueueManager.handler() } currentTrack, queuePosition and queue are objects that I (reluctantly) maintain, but that's pretty much to work around the limitations of the API.