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# start()

Tells an activity to start recording duration and progress for a task.

```
func start()
```

## Discussion

Beginning in iOS 11.4, you can start more than one activity at a time, each in its own context. This allows you to nest activities, running a given context and all its ancestors simultaneously, thus measuring progress at multiple levels of context hierarchy concurrently.

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