Hi, background downloads feel somewhat unreliable in that they sometimes do not continue in the background without any feedback. Could live acitivites be applied to this and show the progress and ideally download speed for outstanding downloads? Safari does this very well but I don‘t know if that…

This is now available in Infuse 8.5.1. :slight_smile: [image] Infuse 8.5.1 now available Releases Infuse 8.5.1 is now available! flexed_biceps NEW Added native background download support (iOS 26+) Added support for streaming from GuangYaPan (光鸭云盘) Added a …

This is how it looks in notification center or on the lockscreen when using background downloads in DJI Fly. It would be great if this was possible in Infuse. [image] [image]

Apple has added support for long-running tasks in the background in their latest iOS/iPadOS 26, but of course, app developers need to implement the feature in their apps, and I hope that the Infuse team will add it soon.

This is a very much needed feature. It’s a huge pain to keep the app on-screen and the display powered on when I’m syncing several movies from my Plex server. The Plex app for iOS/ipadOS support background downloading, so I can queue the downloads, power off the screen, and walk away. Very confused …

It would be nice if there could be a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island whenever Infuse is downloading items so that we can watch the progress without having to stay in the app.

May I please add a quick feedback after trying the feature? It seems that the feature is working as intended, which is great, but the only issue is that it works with one file at a time. I know that Infuse downloads the files one by one, which works great if I’m in the app, but as far as I know, the…

Good find. The live activity ending after the first file of the queue is a bit impractical

Thanks for the feedback! There are a few more potential use cases of backgrounding tasks we’re working to add and we can take a look at this as well.

Live activity background downloads

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