How to remove app name from Control Center - Music?

Question

I am working on an app (which isn't a music app) however, at some point, it can play audio inside a UIWebView (from an html 5 file) which enabled auto play.

The problem is that, my app name is showing up in iPhone's Control Center inside "Music" section. When I taps on my app name, it will open up my app. However, I don't want this behavior.

I have tried setting [MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter].nowPlayingInfo = nil; inside AppDelegates, when app goes to background or comes to foreground or even terminate case. But its still showing up the app name? Any clue? Is there something I'm missing to set?

Oh and yes, this may help someone to know exact issue, in a view controller where I'm playing an audio inside UIWebView, I have written following code to handle currently playing song in my iPhone music (or any other) app.

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    MPMusicPlayerController *mp = [MPMusicPlayerController systemMusicPlayer];
    if(mp.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying) {
        isSystemMediaPlayerPlaying = YES;
    }
}

- (void) viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    if(isSystemMediaPlayerPlaying) {
        MPMusicPlayerController *mp = [MPMusicPlayerController systemMusicPlayer];
        [mp play];
        isSystemMediaPlayerPlaying = NO;
    }
}

For a note, isSystemMediaPlayerPlaying is a BOOL type.

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P.S. Instead of "You Tube", you can consider "My App Name".

is there any specific requirement to user 'systemMusicPlayer' ? — HardikDG, Apr 18 '16 at 15:19
@JAL, thanks for the links, but its not working. I have tried this. — Hemang, Apr 18 '16 at 17:41
you can use AVPlayer/AvAudio player to play the music, which will be not shown in the control center — HardikDG, Apr 19 '16 at 17:07

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 11:38

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Have you tried

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] endReceivingRemoteControlEvents];

answered Apr 20 '16 at 11:38

Daniel Broad

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '16 at 19:05

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Don't call systemMusicPlayer in your app. if music is playing when enter your app, after exit your app, it will resume by itself, just discard your code above.

answered Apr 23 '16 at 19:05

Allen

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 11:44

1 Try setting up the defaultCenter's nowPlayingInfo dictionary to display a media item with no title right after loading the content in your UIWebView.

MPNowPlayingInfoCenter *infoCenter = [MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter];

NSDictionary *nowPlayingInfo = @{
                                 MPMediaItemPropertyTitle : @"",
                                 MPMediaItemPropertyArtist : @""
                                 };

[infoCenter setNowPlayingInfo:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:nowPlayingInfo]];

2 When using background audio, specify that your app should not receive remote control events.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] endReceivingRemoteControlEvents];

How to remove app name from Control Center - Music?

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