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title: com.apple.developer.healthkit.background-delivery
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role_heading: Property List Key
path: bundleresources/entitlements/com.apple.developer.healthkit.background-delivery
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# com.apple.developer.healthkit.background-delivery

A Boolean value that indicates whether observer queries receive updates while running in the background.

## Discussion

Discussion If this key is true, your app can enable background delivery of HKObserverQuery instances by calling the HealthKit store’s enableBackgroundDelivery(for:frequency:withCompletion:) method. By default, the value is false.

## See Also

### Health

- [HealthKit Entitlement](bundleresources/entitlements/com.apple.developer.healthkit.md)
- [HealthKit Capabilities Entitlement](bundleresources/entitlements/com.apple.developer.healthkit.access.md)
- [Fall Detection Notifications](bundleresources/entitlements/com.apple.developer.health.fall-detection.md)
- [com.apple.developer.healthkit.recalibrate-estimates](bundleresources/entitlements/com.apple.developer.healthkit.recalibrate-estimates.md)