Red status bar showing when not recording and app in background

Question

I'm having a problem with the status bar on an app which does sound recording. I've got

  <key>UIBackgroundModes</key>
  <array>
    <string>audio</string>
  </array>    

in my plist in order to get the red status bar notification when sound is recording and the app is in the background. However if I stop recording and go to background the status bar is still there. I've seen this on an iPad 2 running 4.3.2 and an iPhone4 running 5.0. I supect this is a > OS4 issue as I'm terminating the recording correctly and there appears to be no (certified) API to control the status bar.

Anyone seen this/know how to fix it? I'm suspicious this could be an iOS bug but need to rule myself out first :)

The only thing I've seen on the web so far is this (unresolved) email thread:

http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/q7bub5A16vw9h9w2lw82

Andrew

Answer 1

I do quite a bit of work with audio recording in background and have not seen this. I have seen it "take a while" to go away, like seconds, but not get stuck with the red.

The PLIST entry that I use is different. It is

Required background modes / App plays audio