How to keep an iPhone app running on background fully operational

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From ioS 7 onwards, there are newer ways for apps to run in background. Apple now recognizes that apps have to constantly download and process data constantly.

Here is the new list of all the apps which can run in background.

  1. Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app
  2. Apps that record audio content while in the background.
  3. Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app
  4. Apps that support Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
  5. Apps that need to download and process new content regularly
  6. Apps that receive regular updates from external accessories

You can declare app’s supported background tasks in Info.plist using X Code 5+. For eg. adding UIBackgroundModes key to your app’s Info.plist file and adding a value of ‘fetch’ to the array allows your app to regularly download and processes small amounts of content from the network. You can do the same in the ‘capabilities’ tab of Application properties in XCode 5 (attaching a snapshot)

Capabilities tab in XCode 5
You can find more about this in Apple documentation

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