Why am I getting this weird play button on my camera instead of a normal stream in the iOS app only?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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Hi all,

I’ve been trying to get the stream component up and working and it’s mostly fine on all my devices except on iOS where it shows up with this weird play button instead of a live updating card like my other cameras below (not stream enabled). Does anyone know why it is? If I open in a browser on iOS or other devices it works fine, I only get this behavior on iOS hass companion.

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Here’s my config- only the first camera is stream enabled:

  - type: vertical-stack
    cards:

      - type: picture-glance
        title: Outdoor - Front Gate
        aspect_ratio: 16x9
        entities:
        - binary_sensor.motion_front
        camera_image: camera.cam_mainstream_front
        camera_view: live

      - type: horizontal-stack
        cards:


        - type: picture-glance
          title: Outdoor - Left
          aspect_ratio: 9x16
          entities:
          - binary_sensor.motion_left
          camera_image: camera.left

        - type: picture-glance
          title: Outdoor - Right 
          aspect_ratio: 9x16
          entities:
          - binary_sensor.motion_right
          camera_image: camera.right

      - type: picture-glance
        title: Outdoor - Back Yard
        aspect_ratio: 16x9
        entities:
        - binary_sensor.motion_back
        camera_image: camera.back
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So someone on Facebook helped me out with this. Turns out, this happens when your iOS device is on low power mode. Would have probably taken me a long time to figure that out, so hopefully this saves someone else some time.

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Here is a link to my original question… and my own eventual response… just to help anyone searching in here.

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