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huhtenberg on Nov 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

Have Apple loosen their restrictions on background services? This is neither VoIP, music or navigation. Any ideas how they slipped this through the approval process?

sitharus on Nov 5, 2013 | [–]

Yes, as of iOS 7 any app can run in the background.

joshstrange on Nov 5, 2013 | [–]

See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676816

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