iOS: Location Service Stops Providing Updates in iOS Kill Mode

[Rutvik-tbz]

I want to get a location in kill mode (iOS) My application is already in a kill state, I activate location services (BackgroundGeolocation.start()) using silent notifications. The location service activates successfully and provides 2-3 locations, but then it stops giving updates. I even walked for more than 500 meters, but it still didn't give any location updates, I have granted all the necessary location and motion permissions, and the functionality fully works on Android.

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 4.16.3
• Platform: iOS
• OS version: 17.6.1
• Device manufacturer / model: iPhone 15
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.74.1

• Plugin config

  BackgroundGeolocation.ready({
      stationaryRadius: 0,
      desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.DESIRED_ACCURACY_HIGH,
      distanceFilter: 0,
      stopTimeout: 5,
      debug: true, // <-- enable this hear sounds for background-geolocation life-cycle.
      logLevel: BackgroundGeolocation.LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE,
      stopOnTerminate: false, // <-- Allow the background-service to continue tracking when user closes the app.
      startOnBoot: true, // <-- Auto start tracking when device is powered-up.
  
      stopOnStationary: false,
      allowIdenticalLocations: true,
  
      locationUpdateInterval: 60 * 1000,
      fastestLocationUpdateInterval: 60 * 1000,
  
      showsBackgroundLocationIndicator: true,
      heartbeatInterval: 60, // 1 min Interval
      preventSuspend: true, // iOS need to work heartbeatInterval
      autoSync: false, // Disable automatic syncing (this doesn't directly prevent permission requests but is a common recommendation)
  
      // Android & iOS location-services will never turn off
      disableStopDetection: true,
      pausesLocationUpdatesAutomatically: false, // Need for iOS to set location-services will never turn off along with disableStopDetection
  })

Steps to Reproduce

1. First, kill your iOS application.
2. Send a silent push notification
3. Start the location service upon receiving the notification.
4. Go for a walk and check the service.

[christocracy]

See wiki “Debugging”. Learn to fetch the plug-in’s logs via “.emailLog”.

You should be able to test your problem in the iOS Simulator with location simulated with “Freeway Drive”.