Location not being shared when app is killed

[ahunter135]

Hello,

I followed the setup steps perfectly, but on iOS when I kill my app; it's not sending location updates to firebase.

Am I mistaken? Does this not run in the background when I kill my app? I'm assuming it does and doesn't. Like it does run, but my JavaScript listeners don't.
Would a solution be to use the post to server option and update firebase that way?

import { NgZone, Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import BackgroundGeolocation, {
  Location,
  Subscription,
} from '@transistorsoft/capacitor-background-geolocation';
import { FirebaseService } from './firebase.service';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs';
@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root',
})
/**
 * This is the location service for the CURRENT phone user
 */
export class LocationService {
  events: any = [];
  subscriptions: Subscription[] = [];
  lastLocation: Location | null = null;
  isListening = false;
  private locationUpdateSubject = new Subject<Location>();
  public locationUpdate$ = this.locationUpdateSubject.asObservable();

  constructor(private firebaseService: FirebaseService) {}

  async prepareAndStart() {
    try {
      this.subscriptions.push(
        BackgroundGeolocation.onLocation((location) =>
          this.locationReceived(location)
        )
      );

      /// Step 2:  Ready the plugin.
      await BackgroundGeolocation.ready({
        // url: 'localhost:3000', // put a firebase on request function url here
        // params: {
        //   user_id: 1234, // put a firebase user id here so we know who's location is being pinged
        // },
        // Geolocation Config
        desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.DESIRED_ACCURACY_HIGH,
        distanceFilter: 10,
        // Activity Recognition
        stopTimeout: 5,
        // Application config
        debug: false, // <-- enable this hear sounds for background-geolocation life-cycle.
        logLevel: BackgroundGeolocation.LOG_LEVEL_OFF,
        stopOnTerminate: false, // <-- Allow the background-service to continue tracking when user closes the app.
        startOnBoot: true, // <-- Auto start tracking when device is powered-up.
      });

      BackgroundGeolocation.start().then(() => {
        this.isListening = true;
      });
    } catch (error) {
      alert(error);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Every time the location is received, we want to store it locally on lastLocation and also in the DB.
   * We are using the realtime database here. See storeUser.
   * @param location
   */
  locationReceived(location: Location) {
    this.firebaseService.storeUser(
      location.coords.latitude,
      location.coords.longitude
    );
    this.lastLocation = location;
    this.locationUpdateSubject.next(location);
  }

  getCurrentLocation() {
    BackgroundGeolocation.getCurrentPosition(
      {},
      (location) => {
        this.locationReceived(location);
      },
      (error) => {}
    );
  }
}

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