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Best Practices: Measuring App Sessions on iOS 4

07.13.2010

Before Apple iOS 4, tracking mobile app sessions on iPhone was very straightforward. Only one app could run at a time and every app had a clearly defined starting and ending point. With the introduction of multitasking in iOS 4, apps are no longer terminated when a user exits but are instead moved to the background and resumed when the user returns. In fact, many apps such as music players and messaging clients are intended to persist in the background indefinitely without any defined stopping point. As a result, the old way of tracking app sessions no longer accurately reflects the users’ behavior.