Audio playing while app in background iOS

Question

I have an app mostly based around Core Bluetooth. When something specific happens, the app is woken up using Core Bluetooth background modes and it fires off an alarm, however I

Answer 1

I take it you have the audio background mode specified for the app. Even so, I'm not sure you can set an audio session to be active while in the background. You need to have activated it before going into the background. You may also need to play some silent audio to keep this active, but this is seems like bad practice (it may drain the battery). Looking at the docs for notifications there seems to be a way to have a local notification play an audio sample that's included in your bundle, which seems to be what you want to do, so maybe that's the way to go.