[Enhancement proposal]: (iOS) Use new location apis to allow background location updates.

[aanelson]

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Proposal

With iOS 17 liveUpdates was added. Using this api along with backgroundActivitySession and setting permissions to always allow, will relaunch an app in the background when new positions come in even when an app is terminated.

Pitch

Looking at the issues, this not working in the background is the most common question that is brought up under the iOS tag. This will fix it for iOS 17 and 18.

One potential issue with the new api does not allow any configuration for setting range/accuracy just LiveConfiguration.

iOS 18 also requires usage of serviceSession to launch the app in the background from my testing.

This is also a Swift only api. background tracking info
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