From 49c406e62bfce8eb5463a144d9b535fc0d2be924 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcin Rufer <marcin.rufer@mapbox.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:30:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] SDK's audio sessions interrupt spoken audio from other apps.

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                              | 4 ++++
 Sources/MapboxNavigation/Audio/AVAudioSessionHelper.swift | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3e19038c60..cfc3e488e02 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 
 * Fixed an issue where the initially set CarPlay navigation camera values were being overwritten when updates to this property were disabled.
 
+### Audio
+
+* Fixed an issue that audio sessions activated by the SDK (for playback of voice instructions and reroute sound) were not interrupting spoken audio content playback from other applications (e.g. Podcasts).
+
 ## v2.20.2
 
 ### Routing
diff --git a/Sources/MapboxNavigation/Audio/AVAudioSessionHelper.swift b/Sources/MapboxNavigation/Audio/AVAudioSessionHelper.swift
index dd9f77edf42..12e44dee57d 100644
--- a/Sources/MapboxNavigation/Audio/AVAudioSessionHelper.swift
+++ b/Sources/MapboxNavigation/Audio/AVAudioSessionHelper.swift
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ final class AVAudioSessionHelper {
     let settings: Settings = Settings(
         category: .playback,
         mode: .voicePrompt,
-        options: [.duckOthers, .mixWithOthers]
+        options: [.interruptSpokenAudioAndMixWithOthers, .duckOthers]
     )
     
     private init() {}