Meet the Now Playing framework

Key Points

• Introduces Now Playing - a Swift framework that connects app media playback to system surfaces like the Lock Screen, Control Center, Dynamic Island, and CarPlay.
• Shows how to publish playback state and respond to commands using its observable API.
• Covers remote playback sessions, a new capability that lets an app represent media playing on external devices and bring full playback controls to those same system.
• The session moves through Media sessions, Remote media sessions, Media sharing extensions.
• Key concepts include Now Playing, Dynamic Island, CarPlay, APNs, NowPlaying, MovieContent, PlayerModel, RemoteMediaSessionExtension.
• Platform coverage: ios, ipados, macos, tvos, visionos.