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  Background Fetch plugin for Cordova and Ionic. iOS Background Fetch Implementation. See: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiapplication#1657399 iOS…
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# Background Fetch

iOS Background Fetch Implementation. See: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiapplication#1657399
iOS Background Fetch is basically an API which wakes up your app about every 15 minutes (during the user's prime-time hours) and provides your app exactly 30s of background running-time. This plugin will execute your provided callbackFn whenever a background-fetch event occurs. There is no way to increase the rate which a fetch-event occurs and this plugin sets the rate to the most frequent possible value of UIApplicationBackgroundFetchIntervalMinimum -- iOS determines the rate automatically based upon device usage and time-of-day (ie: fetch-rate is about ~15min during prime-time hours; less frequently when the user is presumed to be sleeping, at 3am for example).
For more detail, please see https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-plugin-background-fetch

## Installation

```bash
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-background-fetch
npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/background-fetch
```

**Plugin Repo:** [https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-plugin-background-fetch](https://github.com/transistorsoft/cordova-plugin-background-fetch)

## Supported Platforms

- iOS

## Further Information

- [Installation Guide](../../installation.md)
- [FAQ](../../faq.md)