A11y: VoiceOver: Properly end the active AVAudioSession when recording finishes, causing VO audio to be routed back to the main speaker instead of the earpiece. #6343
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Issue Summary
When a VoiceOver user on iPhone records a voice message in Element, all VoiceOver speech and sounds are being routed to the earpiece instead of the main speaker once recording finishes.
This is quite a severe issue, as it makes VoiceOver almost unusable.
Problem Resolution
The cause of this issue is that currently, the AVAudiosession is not being ended properly, and is thus being kept active by the OS even after voice message recording has stopped.
This PR resolves this by calling
AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(false)
when recording ends.
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