App exiting after certain period of being suspended

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#1

Hi

I’ve noticed of late that my app’s suspend behaviour seems to have changed. In the past my apps would never exit, but lately the OS is shutting them down after a certain period of time. Today for example my 2 apps stayed suspended in their current states for an hour or so, but then at some point got shut down.

Has anyone else noticed this? I’m wondering if it’s an iOS 10 thing? I’ve tried playing around the UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend value, either setting it to false or not having that line in the build settings at all, and it doesn’t seem to make any difference.

cheers,

David

#2

I don’t have an answer because I’m still running iOS 9, however I am interested also.

Could you run this experiment? ==>

Suspend other apps/games (not your own) and see if they also get whacked after some similar amount of time.

If they do, you’ll know it is an iOS 10 thing.  If not, then you’ll have a hint it may be more than that.

#3

Thanks, good suggestion. I watched a couple of other apps today and indeed they also got shut down after a few hours. I’m not sure whether it’s an amount of time, or an action, that causes the shutdown, but it does seem to be an iOS 10 thing.

cheers.

#4

I don’t have an answer because I’m still running iOS 9, however I am interested also.

Could you run this experiment? ==>

Suspend other apps/games (not your own) and see if they also get whacked after some similar amount of time.

If they do, you’ll know it is an iOS 10 thing.  If not, then you’ll have a hint it may be more than that.

#5

Thanks, good suggestion. I watched a couple of other apps today and indeed they also got shut down after a few hours. I’m not sure whether it’s an amount of time, or an action, that causes the shutdown, but it does seem to be an iOS 10 thing.

cheers.