AVPictureInPictureController doesn't work with AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer on tvOS

Dear lindvall,

AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer to AVPictureInPictureController is currently only supported on iOS. Thank you for your feature requests to support it on other platforms- we are looking into it. Please check your bug reports in Feedback Assistant for status updates.

Cordially,

Richard Yeh

 Developer Technical Support

So when the documentation says it supports:

• iOS 15.0+
• iPadOS 15.0+
• Mac Catalyst 15.0+
• macOS 12.0+
• tvOS 15.0+
• visionOS 1.0+

it's just not accurate?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/avpictureinpicturecontroller/contentsource-swift.class/init(samplebufferdisplaylayer:playbackdelegate:)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/avpictureinpicturesamplebufferplaybackdelegate

Hello lindvall,

The availability information may be inaccurate in those cases, unfortunately. We will investigate this accordingly as part of your bug reports.

Thank you,

Richard Yeh  Developer Technical Support

By "availability information" do you mean the documentation? The APIs themselves seem to have incorrect availability information, as it lets us compile with APIs that you are saying are not available on those platforms.

Hello lindvall,

That is correct. The feature is currently unavailable on those platforms despite the API annotations.

Thank you,

Richard Yeh  Developer Technical Support

We've been trying to get support for this (and clarification in the docs) since it was released 5 years ago in 2021 (tvOS 15). What is the correct avenue for that? So far we've tried Feedbacks, DTS Tickets and WWDC chats to get clarity on this and get some progress. Is there something else we should do?

Thanks lindvall for bringing attention to this. I was also struggling with this on multiple occasions convinced I was doing something wrong, just to find out here it's an issue on Apple side that's 5 years old.

@DTS Engineer do you have an estimate or opinion when this might be patched? Will the patch be available on all supported Apple TV devices (as tvOS 27 drops support for some models)