How to get AVAudioPlayer output to the speaker

Question

I'm recording audio with AVAudioRecorder as seen in How do I record audio on iPhone with AVAudioRecorder?

I then use AVAudioPlayer to play back the recording. However the sound is coming out of the ear speaker, not the loud speaker. How would I go about redirecting the sound to the loud speaker ?

TIA!

Answer 1

I realize this question is fairly old but when I was struggling with the same problem I found a simple solution that hopefully will help anyone else looking to use the louder media speakers as opposed to the receiver speakers. The method I used was setting up the audio session with the DefaultToSpeaker option in AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions:

In Swift (assuming your audio session is named session) -

session.setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord, withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions.DefaultToSpeaker, error: nil)

In Obj-C -

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDefaultToSpeaker error: nil];