Why do you say it is loosing the context? The idea of the background queue is that multiple background jobs should be executed in a FIFO order (later on in the application). It has nothing to do with background tasks of the Core Data. I just want an update then delete to be executed exactly in the queued order, otherwise there is a risk that i execute an update on an already deleted object. And how would that explain the misbehavior of the store after a crashed insertion?