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In this iOS Timer tutorial, you’ll learn how timers work, affect UI responsiveness and battery and how to work with animations using CADisplayLink.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/113835-ios-timer-tutorial
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Am I missing something or is this tutorial showing that a regular timer is not running in the background but fails to explain how such a task would be implemented if the timer would need to run in the background?

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@fbrancati Can you please help with this when you get a chance? Thank you - much appreciated! :]

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You can use the Run Loop Modes to set the correct Run Loop for you timer.
Check this section for more details https://www.raywenderlich.com/113835-ios-timer-tutorial#toc-anchor-006 :wink:

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This tutorial is more than six months old so questions are no longer supported at the moment for it. Thank you!