React Native IOS Session Refresh

[Garett-MacGowan]

Bug report

• I confirm this is a bug with Supabase, not with my own application.
• I confirm I have searched the Docs, GitHub Discussions, and Discord.

Describe the bug

Session refresh works fine on android, but will fail on IOS if the app is backgrounded/inactive for too long.

To Reproduce

Implement refresh logic per the docs

import { AppState } from 'react-native'

// make sure you register this only once!
AppState.addEventListener('change', (state) => {
  if (state === 'active') {
    supabase.auth.startAutoRefresh()
  } else {
    supabase.auth.stopAutoRefresh()
  }
})

Wait for ~1 hour, notice that user is no longer authenticated.

Expected behavior

Session refresh should work.

System information

• Version of supabase-js: [e.g. 2.43.4]
• Version of Node.js: [e.g. 18.18.0]

[Garett-MacGowan]

The logic above stops auto refresh when app goes into background. Still, I think IOS will kill the background process after a while.

[Garett-MacGowan]

Obviously I wasn't thinking when I posed this. If the app state changes to anything other than 'active', (e.g. when putting the app in the background), the refresh will stop. I'm not sure what I was expecting.