I'm facing the same problem as you mentioned @brucefromfortitude valley.
Hope the system doesn't allow us to do such background tasks when the user forcefully kills the app.
Regarding silent notifications, using content-available, it might work I reckon. I tried achieving it, received notifs even when the app is in killed (quit) state, with 'content-available'.
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