Visiting the Home Page causes an interruption in background audio playback (iOS)

I’ve noticed something weird which has persisted for some time now. It was minor enough to ignore for a while but I figured it was worth reporting.

If I load Giant Bomb in a new window using Safari for iOS, the page loads and any background audio - Music app playback, Podcasts, etc will pause. It seems something is loading on the page which interrupts CoreAudio.

This behaviour is usually caused by an auto-played media element, but no video appears to be playing, and I’ve been able to reproduce this on both iPhone and iPad devices (running iOS 11.3) with wired, wireless and loadspeaker playback all yielding the same results.

Happy to run other tests if it would help.

The same thing happens to me. I have an iPhone X.

fwiw, there is already a bug thread about this issue. Not sure if they're working on fixing it yet or not.

https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/when-giant-bomb-site-loads-it-is-turning-off-audio-1819554/

There is a bug open for this, but I don't have an ETA on a fix, unfortunately.

@rorie: Thanks, I tried to search for the issue but didn’t see it before posting. Apologies for the double post!

@lashe: No worries, this whole forum is a mess recently because of the spam.