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Background Task scheduling and Date. Should we use absolute or calendar date?
Should we use absolute or calendar Date when scheduling background tasks? I would guess it doesn't matter how we construct Date but I wanted to double check since WWDC videos show both ways. I've experienced some instances where background tasks ran much later than expected, and while this is not surprising since iOS has many factors to consider when they allot background execution time, the times of execution seemed to line up with the hours change between Absolute and Calendar time. Or And I understand there is no guarantee that the system will run the background task exactly or even near the date requested. Thanks!
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Nov ’23
Supporting Multiple Apple Watches (WatchOS 7, iOS 14)
When a user has multiple Apple Watches, can the secondary watches send messages to the iPhone via WCSession? WC Session Documentation - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/watchconnectivity/wcsession is quite limited on how to best support multiple Apple Watches. According to the docs: The Watch app on each watch stays in the active state This leads to me believe that each watch could still send a message to the iPhone via WCSession since the session remains active on each watch, but this is not clear. Can anyone confirm that multiple watches can send messages to one iPhone? Or point to other documentation that may be useful? (WCSession messages would be initiated through a background task or push notification).
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Feb ’21
Clarification on WatchOS Status Icon
Hello,I'm trying to understand how the Watch OS Status Icon chooses which status to display (if multiple are available) and when it cycles vs not.The status icon is the icon in the top center of the screen, see this Apple link for a list of status icons on Apple Watch: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/status-icons-apdce21b02a0/6.0/watchos/6.0As an example, when you get a notification the red notification icon takes over this status icon space until the notification is cleared. In situations where there are multiple icons, such as during a workout, you can have multiple status' (notif and workout, or notif and location use). I am trying to understand how the system works in this multiple status case. For example, I would have thought Notification is the most important status and so that satus would rise to the top if recieved, however in my expereince workout or location use continue to appear on top hiding the notification status. I think most users would appreciate if notification status took over the status icon and where cycling occured it would then show the secondary status'. Hope this makes sense.
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Apr ’20