iOS: How to stop the device standby timer?

Question

I'm creating an iOS app who will have to stop the standby timer.

I mean the timer who put the device in standby after 60 seconds that a user does not touch the screen.

How can I do it?

Thanks

score 46 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '11 at 09:43

46

Try to set UIApplication's idleTimerDisabled property to YES.

[UIApplication sharedApplication].idleTimerDisabled = YES;

answered Feb 21 '11 at 09:43

Vladimir

score -3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '11 at 13:10

-3

you can also put this line of code and it should work also.

[application setIdleTimerDisabled:YES];

answered Feb 21 '11 at 13:10

Alex Crawford

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your variable "application" is not defined as a UIApplication, and needs to be initialised as [UIApplication sharedApplication] – Pega88 Aug 03 '14 at 09:04

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