Background mode not really in background?!

Ionic Native
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Hi everyone :slight_smile:

In my app I need to send notifcations to the user during a period that’s pretty much always around 15 minutes long.

I achieved this by using a combination of the native libraries vibration, background-mode and local-notifications.
The app works superb!

The only issue is, that when I test the app on a real device using xcode, I get the following warning:

THREAD WARNING: ['BackgroundMode'] took '108.111084' ms. Plugin should use a background thread.

Does this mean that background-mode doesn’t really run in the background?
Is this a bad thing?

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Why don’t you use a backend which send the user a notification every 15 minutes?
Seems easier and more battery friendly then using the device itself for it.

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Because the derivation from 15 minutes is so big. It sometimes just takes 30 seconds, 15 minutes is just the average value.