AVAudioRecorder not recording in background after audio session interruption ended

Error 560557684 is for AVAudioSessionErrorCodeCannotInterruptOthers. This happens when your background app is trying to activate an audio session that doesn't mix with other audio sessions. Background apps cannot start audio sessions that don't mix with the foreground app's audio session because that would interrupt the audio of the app currently being used by the user.

To fix this make sure to set your session category to one that is mixable, such as AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback. Also be sure to set the category option AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers (required) and AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDuckOthers (optional). For example:

// background audio *must* mix with other sessions (or setActive will fail)
NSError *sessionError = nil;
[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback
                                 withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers | AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDuckOthers
                                       error:&sessionError];
if (sessionError) {
    NSLog(@"ERROR: setCategory %@", [sessionError localizedDescription]);
}

The error code 560557684 is actually 4 ascii characters '!int' in a 32 bit integer. The error codes are listed in the AVAudioSession.h file (see also AVAudioSession):

    @enum AVAudioSession error codes
    @abstract   These are the error codes returned from the AVAudioSession API.
...
    @constant   AVAudioSessionErrorCodeCannotInterruptOthers
        The app's audio session is non-mixable and trying to go active while in the background.
        This is allowed only when the app is the NowPlaying app.

typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, AVAudioSessionErrorCode)
{
...
    AVAudioSessionErrorCodeCannotInterruptOthers = '!int', /* 0x21696E74, 560557684 */
...

I added the following

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];

before configuring AVAudioSession and it worked. Still don't know what bugs may appear.