# Keeping Meeting Apps Alive in the Background on iOS and watchOS

DevFeed: [Keeping Meeting Apps Alive in the Background on iOS and watchOS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/keeping-meeting-apps-alive-in-the-background-on-ios-and-watchos-28526.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.risingstack.com/reliable-background-recording-on-ios-watchos/>)

Author: Roland

Published: 2026-03-26T14:55:52Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [RisingStack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/risingstack.md>)

Topics: [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [watchOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/watchos.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [case-study](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-study.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [examples](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/examples.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [meetings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/meetings.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [pitfalls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pitfalls.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [watchos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/watchos.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how a real-world meeting app handled reliable background recording and post-recording processing on iOS and watchOS. It covers audio interruptions, resuming recordings, AVAudioSession configuration with mixWithOthers, and background transcription and AI processing, including BGContinuedProcessingTask on iOS 26+.

## Source excerpt

Building an app that records meetings, generates transcriptions, and produces AI analysation sounds straightforward - until you try to make it reliable while the user goes in and out of your app, takes calls, plays music, or checks notifications. This post walks through how we handled background recording and post-recording processing on iOS and watchOS [...] The post Keeping Meeting Apps Alive in the Background on iOS and watchOS appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.