Bring back persistent connections on mobile devices? 🙏

Over time the iOS platform (I think directed by Apple?, or from a security point of view) has stopped the ability to hold a connection when switching away from the RealVNC App (and I mean temporarily). I notice there’s a very small timeframe to switch apps and perhaps return to the VNC connection. It used to be at least 10 minutes (possibly longer)? How about detecting the OS/system of the current connection involved and providing a “keep alive” function on your Cloud server (pass-through from Client to Server). The idea being that if the RealVNC app doesn’t actively request a closure of the connection (*when the user quits out or closes the connection). and/or the Viewer has lost connection temporarily for comms issues, then can’t your Cloud server hold the connection for a period of time (eg. 10 minutes)? You won’t be transmitting very much data (ie. “Lost the client”, you send the “Server” a command to go into hibernation mode and wait 10 minutes, but keep the VPN session linked and available), so it shouldn’t be any worse than if I had remained on the connection sending heaps of data back and forth. When I finish up checking my iPad Apps and resources or doing whatever was needed, I can then switch back to the RealVNC app (within 10 minutes), and it detects a session is still ongoing at this time, and reconnects into that session (with less selecting the server again, and waiting for negotiations of systems, etc).
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