How to Keep Background Location Running on iOS After the App is Killed
Why iOS suspends and kills apps doing background location — and what you need to understand to build tracking that actually survives in production.
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News, tutorials, and insights about background location tracking.
Why iOS suspends and kills apps doing background location — and what you need to understand to build tracking that actually survives in production.
A step-by-step guide to requesting background location permissions in Capacitor apps. Two-step Android flow, iOS Always Allow escalation, handling denials, and App Store / Play Store review tips.
Why your background location tracking dies on Xiaomi, Samsung, and Huawei — and how to detect, prevent, and guide users through OEM battery restrictions in a Capacitor app.
Compare three ways to send GPS data from a React Native app to your server: native HTTP posting with offline buffer, JS-side fetch, and hybrid. Code examples, trade-offs, and production tips.
GPS tracking drains battery fast. Learn how an adaptive distance filter adjusts precision based on speed — saving power on highways and delivering accuracy on foot.
A practical guide to implementing geofencing in Capacitor and React Native apps. Learn how to define regions, handle enter/exit/dwell events, and deal with iOS vs Android differences.
How we built a background GPS tracking plugin with native HTTP, offline buffer, heartbeat, geofencing, and 890+ tests — and what we learned along the way.