{"id":5006,"date":"2012-06-03T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2012-06-03T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:26:57","slug":"instapaper-background-update-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/instapaper-background-update-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Instapaper Background Update Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.instapaper.com\/post\/24293729146\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.instapaper.com\/post\/24293729146\"><p>iOS doesn&rsquo;t yet permit apps like Instapaper to automatically download new content in the background on a regular schedule, but Background Update Locations can get most of the way there for a lot of people. Simply add up to 10 locations that you enter and leave often, and Instapaper will frequently update without manually launching it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Apple, it&rsquo;s not OK to let the user set a predictable schedule for downloading new content. But it is OK to have a more complicated user interface, and needlessly fire up the GPS chip, to produce a semi-predictable schedule. Meanwhile, the built-in Mail app can check for new messages on a repeating schedule, but <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/sparrow-iphone-and-push\/\">third-party apps cannot<\/a>. See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/ios-background-app-kludge\/\">background music kludge<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: iOS doesn&rsquo;t yet permit apps like Instapaper to automatically download new content in the background on a regular schedule, but Background Update Locations can get most of the way there for a lot of people. Simply add up to 10 locations that you enter and leave often, and Instapaper will frequently update without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}