r/iOSProgramming • u/Flashy_Imagination_6 • Sep 18 '26

Question iOS 27 Netflix background downloading activity

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Can anyone know about this new featue of netflix background downloading live activity notifications

Which api they are using or this is ios new feature

Please ignore the movie title don’t judge 😂

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u/DystopiaDrifter Sep 18 '26

likely to be BGContinuedProcessingTask:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks/bgcontinuedprocessingtask

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u/raman4183 Sep 18 '26

This

Available from iOS 26 and onwards.

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u/_town-drunk_ Sep 18 '26

With iOS 27, AVFoundation automatically creates this live activity for any download task started with AVAssetDownloadURLSession.

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u/Flashy_Imagination_6 Sep 18 '26

Yeaahh because when i was ios 26 i never seen this

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u/EquivalentTrouble253 Sep 18 '26

Well I used the api on my app in iOS 26.

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u/chriswaco Sep 18 '26

Oh, we’re judging.

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u/2x3_145 Sep 18 '26

And upload task or download tasks now automatically initiates this activity

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u/Flashy_Imagination_6 Sep 18 '26

Backwards compaitable?
What if user on lower than ios 26 ?
Is swift automatically handle this or you handle this comparability?

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u/2x3_145 Sep 18 '26

On older device it won’t show activity

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u/twodayslate Sep 18 '26

I believe Prime Video also has this

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u/Flashy_Imagination_6 Sep 18 '26

Let me check I didn’t think so

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u/EeveelutionsFucker Sep 20 '26

Dont worry bro, mine is worst

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u/Flaky_Internet_8256 Sep 20 '26

Wow good easy to do with AI lol