Flush writes from other processes.

Signal/src/ViewControllers/ConversationView/ConversationViewController.m

@@ -4170,9 +4170,11 @@ typedef enum : NSUInteger {
         if (hasAddedNewItems) {
             NSIndexPath *_Nullable indexPathToShow = [self firstIndexPathAtPreviousLastUnreadTimestamp];
             if (indexPathToShow) {
+                dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                     [self.collectionView scrollToItemAtIndexPath:indexPathToShow
                                                 atScrollPosition:UICollectionViewScrollPositionCenteredVertically
                                                         animated:YES];
+                });
             }
         }
         self.previousLastUnreadTimestamp = nil;
@@ -4307,6 +4309,14 @@ typedef enum : NSUInteger {
     [self ensureDynamicInteractions];
     [self updateBackButtonUnreadCount];
     [self updateNavigationBarSubtitleLabel];
+
+    // There appears to be a bug in YapDatabase that sometimes delays modifications
+    // made in another process (e.g. the SAE) from showing up in other processes.
+    // There's a simple workaround: a trivial write to the database flushes changes
+    // made from other processes.
+    [self.editingDatabaseConnection setObject:[NSUUID UUID].UUIDString
+                                       forKey:@"conversation_view_noop_mod"
+                                 inCollection:@"temp"];
 }
 
 #pragma mark - ConversationCollectionViewDelegate

SignalServiceKit/src/Storage/OWSStorage.m

@@ -76,7 +76,10 @@ typedef NSData *_Nullable (^CreateDatabaseMetadataBlock)(void);
     OWSAssert(delegate);
     OWSAssert(delegate.areAllRegistrationsComplete || self.canWriteBeforeStorageReady);
 
-    OWSBackgroundTask *backgroundTask = [OWSBackgroundTask backgroundTaskWithLabelStr:__PRETTY_FUNCTION__];
+    OWSBackgroundTask *_Nullable backgroundTask = nil;
+    if (CurrentAppContext().isMainApp) {
+        backgroundTask = [OWSBackgroundTask backgroundTaskWithLabelStr:__PRETTY_FUNCTION__];
+    }
     [super readWriteWithBlock:block];
     backgroundTask = nil;
 }
@@ -100,7 +103,10 @@ typedef NSData *_Nullable (^CreateDatabaseMetadataBlock)(void);
     OWSAssert(delegate);
     OWSAssert(delegate.areAllRegistrationsComplete || self.canWriteBeforeStorageReady);
 
-    __block OWSBackgroundTask *backgroundTask = [OWSBackgroundTask backgroundTaskWithLabelStr:__PRETTY_FUNCTION__];
+    __block OWSBackgroundTask *_Nullable backgroundTask = nil;
+    if (CurrentAppContext().isMainApp) {
+        backgroundTask = [OWSBackgroundTask backgroundTaskWithLabelStr:__PRETTY_FUNCTION__];
+    }
     [super asyncReadWriteWithBlock:block completionQueue:completionQueue completionBlock:^{
         if (completionBlock) {
             completionBlock();