"ios background fetch mode can be used to schedule some operation in the future that doesn't actually fetch remote data?" Code Answer

as i understand you can do everything that does not take too long, plus you don't get a guaranteed interval when you app will be woken up - you just can request a certain minimum wake interval, which will be treated as a suggestion by ios.

the only catch is that apparently you have to create an nsurlsession and actually do a web request, upon which return you can do whatever you want. so, you can do a dummy request and forget about any data you get returned, or maybe even create a failing request, as you are not interested in any real request at all - although i'm not sure what apple will do when you implement the latter ...

By Usman Kurd on March 22 2022