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It's worse when your app requires to maintain a constant connection to a server in order to function - when the app suspends good luck knowing when that connection will be closed, even with an extended execution!

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An application can never trust that the connection is reliable. When the app suspends, it is too late to use network. You should shut down as if you were offline.

Well, that can be sorted out with a background task.

Even with a background task your app can be terminated by the system without further notice after the suspend event (e.g. when the user powers off the device). There's no orderly fashion in which an app can be terminated and save its data.

The suspended even is the orderly fashion to save the data.

An ExtendedExecutionSession with a SavingData reason, should be more than enough for any kind of data.

Thank you. I was wondering if someone was going to mention this.

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