Haptic feedback in the background of workout app

I have a watch worktout app and I was excited to learn that haptic feedback now works in the background. However, when I tried the feature in beta 1 of watchOS 3 it doesn't work for me. I have WKBackgroundModes in my plist of the watch extension and it has a single arrary entry value of workout-processing. I also have a custom countdown timer and it run fine in the background, but the haptic feedback only work if if the app is active. Every 10 seconds I play a haptic using the following:


WKInterfaceDevice.current().play(.notification)


Is this a known issue?

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FYI - This started working in watchOS beta 2.

And stopped working again in watchOS3 beta 4 😢

As of Beta 6 I got haptics in background working (and I also got confirmed that it is intenended to work).


In my case I forgot to set some keys in the plist - see:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/52630