Audio/Music STOPS playing when closing the Facebook app

If you haven’t done so already, please report the bug to Apple.

Product Feedback - Apple

Yes, this has been diagnosed as an issue with Facebook and either Facebook or Apple will need to release an update to resolve the issue.

It’s a Facebook issue. It’s how FB manages resources when it’s put to sleep/suspended.

This is clearly a Facebook app issue. It happens on my 12 pro running 26.0.1 and also on my wife’s 12 pro running 18.6.2.

It happens also when pressing the right side button when fb is in focus.

Tell Facebook Support. This is typical for Facebook (Meta) apps. Last year they’d fix one issue and two more would pop up.

Have you updated your Facebook app?

Mine started doing it after I got my phone and it updated to the iOS 26.01. All of my media stops if I close out of Facebook or if I bring the notification thing down while in Facebook. But if I put the notification back up and pull it back to play what I’m listening to it plays right away until I get rid of Facebook from the screen basically. And it’s no matter what I listen to. YouTube, YouTube music, Spotify. But I could be on snap or a game or even searching something up and the media doesn’t stop. Only with Facebook.

Facebook and or Apple will need to release an update to resolve the issue.

Well, has someone reported this to.. Facebook/Meta? 🤔

iOS 26.0.1

iPhone 14

Facebook 533.0.0

Spotify 9.0.82 / I do see an update for Spotify so I am going to update but I do not have high expectations of that being the solution. Updating to 9.0.84

My music also stops when I close Facebook by swiping to close. It appears it would matter if it’s just to Home Screen or if you close the app completely. Spotify pauses when you swipe up and all the other open apps pop up? Sorry not sure the term for that interface

I thought I was losing my mind. Trying to listen to an audiobook on the Libby app, and I’m used to periodically needing to tell Facebook that, no, I don’t want it to override any other audio when I open it, but when I *close* it? What the ****.

Off to submit an official report.

I just upgraded to an iPhone 17 Pro Max and I thought it was me doing something wrong cause it’s been driving me crazy I wanted my old phone back😂

For me, I listen to a lot of podcast and it just keeps closing out anytime I close out an app. It looks like it is primarily a Facebook issue so I’ll just stay off Facebook for now. Thanks for posting about this guys.

...and it happens even if I don't load the Facebook app completely. Clicking the icon (when Facebook is not open in the background) and then immediately closing the app (that is, closing it completely, not just switching away from it) kills the audio.

Music on Apple Music pauses upon the following:

Your phone auto-locks while having FB open on screen, switching from FB to another app, closing FB app using the swipe up function, exiting FB to go to your Home Screen.

Any action where you leave Facebook, Apple Music pauses.

It involves the apps using audio resources. It’s a Facebook issue affecting multiple apps.