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jhwalker

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Since upgrading to iOS 13, it appears all my remote control apps (i.e., apps used to manage my AVR, my TV, etc.) no longer maintain their network connection to to devices they're meant to control once you switch away from the apps :/ And the connection is not restored when the apps are brought back up - the only way to restore functionality is to manually "kill" the app and restart it.

I've confirmed this works (or fails to work) the same on all iOS 13 devices, so it must be something associated with iOS 13 that was different in iOS 12, e.g. power management?

Anyone know how to disable this new "feature"? IOW, fix the issue so the apps maintain their connections when running in the background? Or reconnect properly when the app is brought to the foreground?
 
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