Continue playing audio from html5 player when in iOS background mode

My app plays audio via an <audio> tag in html hosted in UIWebView, and it supports background playing.

As you suggest, you need to have the 'App plays audio' background mode defined in your plist.

Try adding this to your applicationDidFinishLaunching: handler:

NSError *setCategoryError = nil;
[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory: AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error: &setCategoryError];