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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by brandon272 on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:53AM (#23573991)
It is not a violation to allow background play of video. No guideline prohibits it. The Plex app allows background play, for example. Apple also provides documentation to developers on how to enable this functionality in their apps. (1)

If it were against policy to enable play of video in the background, then it seems that would be an even more egregious violation by YouTube, as not only do they have the functionality in the app, but they charge users money to access it.

1. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/media...

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by aspenmayer on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:59PM (#23607361)
Thanks for following up on this. It’s good to have this clarity into the guidelines and that other apps implement this functionality in different ways.
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