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Just an FYI, Apple does give its developer the ability to have the app wake up from background on-demand or at scheduled intervals to perform specific tasks. Th
by pupdogg 5y ago
Just an FYI, Apple does give its developer the ability to have the app wake up from background on-demand or at scheduled intervals to perform specific tasks. This is something that can be done as long as the phone is ON and connected to the public gateway either via cell towers or WiFi.
An example would be the Facebook app icon with notification count or the Mail app with unread emails count. This counter is updated based on background processing of Fb or email notifications.
- sroussey 5y agoNotifications and background activities are orthogonal for the use case you mentioned. Background activity on iOS is severely restricted and mostly relegated to finishing a long or regular upload or download. Unless you are a phone communication app — and a reason why you may see voice added to apps.
- brundolf 5y agoI don't know exactly how it works, but I know notifications are their own separate concept that gets handled by the system and doesn't require the app to be running arbitrary code in the background There is also the "allow background activity" permission though, which I'm not sure the bounds of, but you can disable it