Hi,
I have seen a lot of answers in different threads Thread 1, Thread 2 that if an app doesn't support scenes, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions shouldn't be called during prewarming. Additionally, DTS Engineer on this Thread 3 mentioned that starting from late iOS 15, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions definitely won't be called during prewarming.
However, we are still seeing in our logs, that didFinishLaunchingWithOptions is called during prewarming, for some users, even on iOS 18. Our app doesn't support scenes, and our AppDelegate is completely Objective-C.
The problem is that in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions we set up our CoreData and Networking stack then we make a network request to fetch data and store it in database. When the app is launching in a prewarming state, CoreData stack can't load the persistent stores because the protected data isn't accessible during prewarming. We are setting the FileProtectionType to completeUnlessOpen for NSPersistentStoreDescription, which means the Core Data files are considered protected data. When user eventually launches app, network request resumes and crashes when trying to store data in database because Persistent Stores not loaded.
What would you recommend to resolve this issue? Rewriting the Core Data stack for lazy initialization is quite challenging since we're using an old library (RestKit) for networking and Core Data caching.
Thanks.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General