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# BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest.SubmissionStrategy

The ways your app suggests the system handle your task’s submission under varying conditions.

```
enum SubmissionStrategy
```

## Overview

The Continuous Background Task request ([`BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest`](/documentation/BackgroundTasks/BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest)) property [`strategy`](/documentation/BackgroundTasks/BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest/strategy) is of this type.

For more information on submission strategies, see [Performing long-running tasks on iOS and iPadOS](/documentation/BackgroundTasks/performing-long-running-tasks-on-ios-and-ipados).

## Topics

### Choosing a strategy

[`case fail`](/documentation/BackgroundTasks/BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest/SubmissionStrategy/fail)

An option that fails the submission of a continuous background task if the system can’t run it immediately.

[`case queue`](/documentation/BackgroundTasks/BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest/SubmissionStrategy/queue)

An option that queues a continuous background task to begin as soon as possible.

### Creating a strategy

[`init?(rawValue: Int)`](/documentation/BackgroundTasks/BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest/SubmissionStrategy/init(rawValue:))

Creates a submission strategy.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`RawRepresentable`](/documentation/Swift/RawRepresentable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

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