Disable iOS Safari lock screen scrubber for media

Question

Safari on iOS puts a scrubber on its lock screen for simple HTMLAudioElements. For example:

const a = new Audio();
a.src = \'https://example.com/audio.m4a\'         


        

Answer 1

From my understanding you can't block/hide the scrubbing commands unless you can tag the audio as a live stream. That being said, you can use js to refuse scrubbing server-side. Reference the answer here. Although that answer speaks of video, it also works with audio.