React-native-track-player: [ios] Lock screen controls remain after last track ends. (NowPlayingInfoCenter)

[curiousdustin]

On iOS, the lock screen controls should disappear after the last track ends.

Instead, they remain visible.

[curiousdustin]

I tried adding the following to RNTrackPlayer.swift inside player.event.playbackEnd.addListener

self.player.nowPlayingInfoController.clear()    

As suggested here: https://github.com/jorgenhenrichsen/SwiftAudio/issues/83

However, this clears out the info but the controls remain in place.

[Thomas0c]

Have been looking at a similar issue and setting nowPlayingInfo to an empty dictionary seems to do the trick: MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = [:].

[curiousdustin]

Are you finding that your suggestion works differently than self.player.nowPlayingInfoController.clear()? Where did you put that line?

[Thomas0c]

Yes. It clears the audio player including controls.
Currently calling it in the reset function in RNTrackPlayer.swift within the DispatchQueue.main.async block.

[curiousdustin]

@Thomas0c do the lock screen control disappear if you are watching them when the queue ends?

For me everything works as expected, UNLESS I have the lock screen controls visible when the queue ends. In this case, using either MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = [:] or self.player.nowPlayingInfoController.clear() causes the controls to reset to a "default" state. (see attached)

At this point, if I turn the screen off and back on, the controls go away as they should.

[ghost]

Did someone solve this issue? Is this issue still in tracking?

[waheedakhtar694]

Any update on this?

[waheedakhtar694]

Here is the destroy method which only prints a message in the log

@objc(destroy)
    public func destroy() {
        print("Destroying player")
    }

[waheedakhtar694]

This is not a perfect solution but i found a workaround that updating the options after resetting the player works for me.

```
await RNTrackPlayer.reset()
await RNTrackPlayer.updateOptions({ stopWithApp: true,
capabilities: [
Capability.Play,
Capability.Stop,
Capability.SkipToNext,
Capability.SkipToPrevious,
Capability.Pause
]})