Setting Multitasking Camera Access Support

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Created Jul ’22

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I have a question in regards to setting up isMultitaskingCameraAccessEnabled for Picture in Picture capabilities on iOS 16 intended for video calls. In my CaptureSession flow I have set up the requirement to enable "MultitaskingCameraAccess" as indicated in the developer documentation. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/accessing_the_camera_while_multitasking https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/adopting_picture_in_picture_for_video_calls

let captureSession = AVCaptureSession()

// Configure the capture session.
captureSession.beginConfiguration()
if captureSession.isMultitaskingCameraAccessSupported {
    // Enable using the camera in multitasking modes.
    captureSession.isMultitaskingCameraAccessEnabled = true
}
captureSession.commitConfiguration()

// Start the capture session.
captureSession.startRunning()

However isMultitaskingCameraAccessSupported is always false. My question is what dictates this setting? How can I support multitasking camera access by enabling this boolean to true?

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Answer 1

zmbapro OP

Jul ’22

I also have same problem. ios16 beta3 + iphone13

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Answer 2

Cartisim OP

Jul ’22

The documentation states, _"Starting in iOS 16, your app can use the camera while multitasking by setting the isMultitaskingCameraAccessEnabled property to true on supported systems. Do we have a scenario needed or a list of supported systems. This seems to be quite ambiguous.

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Answer 3

zmbapro OP

Jul ’22

It can work on ipad air5.I guess only M1 chip devices are supported

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Answer 4

Cartisim OP

Jul ’22

Really? That is interesting. I have tried on iPhone XR. I have not tried on Mac yet. I have several devices I could try on, but I am not sure why trying on a iPhone >= XR wouldn't work. Any suggestions or any other successful test cases?

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Answer 5

haarj OP

Sep ’22

Same problem here. Xcode 14 Beta 6, iOS 16 Beta 8, iPhone 12 mini. captureSession.isMultitaskingCameraAccessSupported is always false. :'(

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Answer 6

Cartisim OP

Sep ’22

I decided to take another look at this since iOS 16 is out of beta. There is a developer comment on the property now. Only certain devices are supported, like the comment mentioned above. Here is a current list of supported devices.

This property returns true for iPad Pro (4th generation), iPad Pro (5th generation) and iPad Air (5th generation).

Hopefully Apple will help us out further in the future or make it easier to gain access to the entitlement for this feature.

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Answer 7

liuyy_RTC OP

Sep ’22

same problem, i had tested iphonex and iphone 13 pro, ios 16.0, the isMultitaskingCameraAccessSupported always return NO. docs indicate that this applys to iOS, but api annotion says only a few kind of ipad return yes, i am confused. hope Apple can reply to this message

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Answer 8

paulof OP

Nov ’22

Same problem here. isMultitaskingCameraAccessSupported is returning false. I was also trying to add 'com.apple.developer.avfoundation.multitasking-camera-access' entitlement, but an error appears saying - Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: " doesn't include the com.apple.developer.avfoundation.multitasking-camera-access entitlement.

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Answer 9

kemchuoi OP

Jan ’23

@paulof I requested 'com.apple.developer.avfoundation.multitasking-camera-access' then still got response after 1 years, so funny

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