So, first off, there are two critical details I need to clarify: Note in MAC OS everything (same DExt and UserClient-code) works fine in the background and in the foreground. macOS doesn't implement any of the app suspension semantics iPadOS does, which means you can't really compare the behavior of the two systems. That leads to here: 1 variation A) UserClientApp has attribute [Background modes][Enable external communications]. The external-accessory background mode is totally unrelated to DriverKit and isn't actually doing anything in your app. It allows apps using the ExternalAccessory framework to communicate with their accessory in the background, but that framework (iOS 3.0) and the background mode (iOS 4.0) are MUCH older than DriverKit. Making this as explicit as possible: B) A way to pursue Apple-store to accept (without MFI) an UserClientApp with [Enable external communication]. ...adding external-accessory is not changing ANYTHING about how your app wakes/sleep in the background.
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App & System Services
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Drivers
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