diff --git a/pubspec.lock b/pubspec.lock
index f837b562e..e632b3080 100644
--- a/pubspec.lock
+++ b/pubspec.lock
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ packages:
   background_fetch:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:
-      path: "thirdparty/flutter_background_fetch"
-      relative: true
-    source: path
-    version: "1.0.0-nullsafety.2"
+      name: background_fetch
+      url: "https://pub.dartlang.org"
+    source: hosted
+    version: "0.7.2"
   boolean_selector:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 89d8d6302..801dc1a6a 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ dependencies:
   expansion_card: ^0.1.0
   flutter_password_strength: ^0.1.6
   flutter_inappwebview: ^5.3.2
-  background_fetch:
-    path: thirdparty/flutter_background_fetch
+  background_fetch: ^0.7.2
   # flutter_inapp_purchase: ^3.0.1
   google_nav_bar: ^5.0.5
   package_info_plus: ^1.0.1
diff --git a/thirdparty/flutter_background_fetch b/thirdparty/flutter_background_fetch
deleted file mode 160000
index 31fbadd16..000000000
--- a/thirdparty/flutter_background_fetch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 31fbadd16a2cc842b46788fc75b1102c72cb3080