diff --git a/Sources/Instrumentation/URLSession/URLSessionInstrumentation.swift b/Sources/Instrumentation/URLSession/URLSessionInstrumentation.swift
index 21db9360..a67920eb 100644
--- a/Sources/Instrumentation/URLSession/URLSessionInstrumentation.swift
+++ b/Sources/Instrumentation/URLSession/URLSessionInstrumentation.swift
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import Foundation
 import OpenTelemetryApi
 import OpenTelemetrySdk
 #if canImport(FoundationNetworking)
-import FoundationNetworking
+    import FoundationNetworking
 #endif
 
 struct NetworkRequestState {
@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ public class URLSessionInstrumentation {
                     }
                 }
                 self.setIdKey(value: sessionTaskId, for: task)
+
+                // We want to identify background tasks
+                if session.configuration.identifier == nil {
+                    objc_setAssociatedObject(task, "IsBackground", true, .OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC)
+                }
                 return task
             }
             let swizzledIMP = imp_implementationWithBlock(unsafeBitCast(block, to: AnyObject.self))
@@ -592,6 +597,15 @@ public class URLSessionInstrumentation {
             return
         }
 
+        // We cannot instrument async background tasks because they crash if you assign a delegate
+        if #available(OSX 13.0, iOS 16.0, watchOS 9.0, tvOS 16.0, *) {
+            if objc_getAssociatedObject(task, "IsBackground") is Bool {
+                guard Task.basePriority == nil else {
+                    return
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         let taskId = idKeyForTask(task)
         if let request = task.currentRequest {
             queue.sync {
diff --git a/Sources/OpenTelemetrySdk/Metrics/Stable/State/StableMeterSharedState.swift b/Sources/OpenTelemetrySdk/Metrics/Stable/State/StableMeterSharedState.swift
index 718db240..f1d1768e 100644
--- a/Sources/OpenTelemetrySdk/Metrics/Stable/State/StableMeterSharedState.swift
+++ b/Sources/OpenTelemetrySdk/Metrics/Stable/State/StableMeterSharedState.swift
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class StableMeterSharedState {
         var registeredStorages = [SynchronousMetricStorage]()
         for (reader, registry) in readerStorageRegisteries {
             for registeredView in reader.registry.findViews(descriptor: instrument, meterScope: instrumentationScope) {
-                if type(of: registeredView.view.aggregation) == DropAggregator.self {
+                if type(of: registeredView.view.aggregation) == DropAggregation.self {
                     continue
                 }
                 registeredStorages.append(registry.register(newStorage: SynchronousMetricStorage.create(registeredReader: reader, registeredView: registeredView, descriptor: instrument, exemplarFilter:  meterProviderSharedState.exemplarFilter)) as! SynchronousMetricStorage)
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class StableMeterSharedState {
         var registeredStorages = [AsynchronousMetricStorage]()
         for (reader, registry) in readerStorageRegisteries {
             for registeredView in reader.registry.findViews(descriptor: instrumentDescriptor, meterScope: instrumentationScope) {
-                if type(of: registeredView.view.aggregation) == DropAggregator.self {
+                if type(of: registeredView.view.aggregation) == DropAggregation.self {
                     continue
                 }
                 registeredStorages.append(registry.register(newStorage: AsynchronousMetricStorage.create(registeredReader: reader, registeredView: registeredView, instrumentDescriptor: instrumentDescriptor)) as! AsynchronousMetricStorage)