I\'m making an app in which i need to show the names of apps running in background. I did R&D on it and came to know that we can know only about Apple\'s apps like Photo
I don't think it's ment to be possible, but others like you have been very involved in the same topic and come up with some workarounds. Read this blogpost for more info: http://www.amitay.us/blog/files/how_to_detect_installed_ios_apps.php
I think in ios it not posible to get which apps are running in background, because in ios the which one is foreground this one the active running apps and other which one you are getting these all are background appps.
so, excluding your application name others are background apps.