Apple Music stops when closing Facebook because Facebook has a bug or feature where its app forcibly stops background audio playback from other apps when the Facebook app is closed or minimized. This happens especially because Facebook often autoplay videos with sound, which takes priority over other apps playing audio, like Apple Music. Users experience their music stopping immediately when switching away or closing the Facebook app. The main reasons and solutions are:
- Facebook's autoplay video feature interrupts background music playback.
- Disabling Facebook video autoplay in Facebook's settings helps prevent music from stopping.
- Turning off Facebook's access to the microphone or camera on the iPhone may reduce the interruptions.
- Disabling in-app sounds in Facebook also helps keep music playing.
- Basic troubleshooting includes closing other apps, updating Facebook and iOS, restarting the device, or reinstalling Facebook.
This issue is widespread among iPhone users and is recognized as a bug caused by the Facebook app abusing media playback behavior on iOS, needing a software update from Facebook or Apple to fully resolve it.
