New download progress "banner" on iOS27

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We are using AVAssetDownloadURLSession to download videos. On iOS27, when building with the iOS27 SDK, there is a new progress banner showing the file name and download progress. The user can also cancel the download from there.

I have not seen this mentioned anywhere and I am wondering if there are any APIs related to this new feature?

Reason: For example, we show a user notification when a download has finished but if there already was a banner displaying the status that notification is unnecessary.

Answered by Engineer in 906082022

Thanks for the report.

Information about the Live Activity can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avassetdownloadtask

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Engineer OP

Apple

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Thanks for the report.

Information about the Live Activity can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avassetdownloadtask

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anders.u OP

3d

@Engineer Thanks for the information. So it seems like the only control is to set isDiscretionary to false.

But I thought false is the default value.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/urlsessionconfiguration/isdiscretionary

The default value of this property is false.

Do we explicitly have to set it to false to control the live activity?