From bf810386b9ee1aed579b24adffb02f4acfa413db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dawid Wyrkowski <Dawidwyrkowski@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:54:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ios): add audiovisualBackgroundPlaybackPolicy (#4570)

---
 ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift b/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift
index 47a5d3e0..ac4232ce 100644
--- a/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift
+++ b/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift
@@ -574,6 +574,14 @@ class RCTVideo: UIView, RCTVideoPlayerViewControllerDelegate, RCTPlayerObserverH
 
             _player!.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
 
+            if #available(iOS 15.0, *) {
+                if _playInBackground {
+                    _player!.audiovisualBackgroundPlaybackPolicy = .continuesIfPossible
+                } else {
+                    _player!.audiovisualBackgroundPlaybackPolicy = .automatic
+                }
+            }
+
             if _showNotificationControls {
                 // We need to register player after we set current item and only for init
                 NowPlayingInfoCenterManager.shared.registerPlayer(player: _player!)
@@ -592,6 +600,14 @@ class RCTVideo: UIView, RCTVideoPlayerViewControllerDelegate, RCTPlayerObserverH
                     self._playerViewController?.allowsVideoFrameAnalysis = true
                 }
             #endif
+
+            if #available(iOS 15.0, *) {
+                if _playInBackground {
+                    _player!.audiovisualBackgroundPlaybackPolicy = .continuesIfPossible
+                } else {
+                    _player!.audiovisualBackgroundPlaybackPolicy = .automatic
+                }
+            }
             // later we can just call "updateNowPlayingInfo:
             NowPlayingInfoCenterManager.shared.updateNowPlayingInfo()
         }