Keeping Blink from closing while in the background

Keeping Blink running in the background

You can command Blink to stay running while in the background on iOS devices by using the Geo Track feature. Open a new Blink window and while at the prompt type:

geo track

This command will display a list of options allowing you to control and manage Blink’s geo tracking feature. The geo tracking feature a mechanism that tells iOS that your app needs to remain open to provide geo tracking (like Google Maps or Waze.) It is sort of a hack that allows Blink to stay open while in the background.

If you’ve never used this feature before you’ll need to authorize first:

geo track authorize

Once you’ve done that you can start it by typing:

geo track start

That will tell iOS to keep Blink running in the background. You’ll also get that Geo Tracking icon that iOS shows while you have a maps app open.

When you are done just type:

geo track stop