diff --git a/platform/ios/MGLMapboxEvents.m b/platform/ios/MGLMapboxEvents.m
index eb8d909db..314d50dd0 100644
--- a/platform/ios/MGLMapboxEvents.m
+++ b/platform/ios/MGLMapboxEvents.m
@@ -604,10 +604,7 @@ const NSTimeInterval MGLFlushInterval = 60;
             [request setHTTPBody:jsonData];
 
             // Send non blocking HTTP Request to server
-            NSURLSessionDataTask *task = [_session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(__unused NSData * __nullable data, __unused NSURLResponse * __nullable response, __unused NSError * __nullable error)
-            {
-            }];
-            [task resume];
+            [[_session dataTaskWithRequest:request] resume];
         }
     });
 }