The strangest thing has been bothering me for ages now. When sending a push notification from our sandbox environment the system receives the notification only when the app is in the foreground. Exiting the app and sending a push notification doesn't show a badge or alert.
These are the steps i've taken so far:
Re-created the provisioning profile after generating the SSL.
Made sure that the correct capabilities are in place.
Verified that a device token is registered
Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem here? Why would the push notification get received inside the app, but not outside?
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I'm developing an iOS app and I'm facing this weird bug where the push notifications come in bursts.
Basically, let's say I send 10 push notifications with APN from a server (my logs show that the push notification sends), but I don't receive it until some arbitray time later, when I receive all 10 notifications at once.
I've double-checked my app-side code and have also tried re-generating/re-uploading the p12 certs and after looking around here, I haven't managed to find anything either./
Would anyone be able to shed some light on this? Any help is appreciated!
*UPDATE: my logs show that every time the server sends a push notification, it also sends a 'apple sandbox notification' simultaneously, but I'm notsure what that is
When app is not running (terminated NOT in background) and a remote push notifications is received, is there any way to inform the app about it so that the app can update something locally such as simple int counter?
I want to store something so that when the app is launched the next time, app knows that notification was received when app wasn't running and something needs to be done.
If user launches an app by tapping on a notification, obviously the app is notified about it through AppDelegate methods but these methods are never called if user launches an app by tapping on the app's icon.
To be aware of notification when user launches app by tapping on icon, i need some way to let app know that notification was received when app was in background.
There is no way you can achieve this with simple push notifications.
According to apple docs if the user has manually killed your application by swiping it out of memory, your app will never be started in the background to process data until after the user chooses to launch it again.
One solution to this problem is using VOIP push.
According to apple docs -
Your app is automatically relaunched if it’s not running when a VoIP
push is received.
But you need a strong reason for using it and apple may ask that before approving your app on the app store.
To read more about VOIP push please go through this doc - https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/EnergyGuide-iOS/OptimizeVoIP.html
You can also be used the "Silent Push Notifications".Which are confirming that their is something available on the server, which you need to download to your app,The payload format of the Silent push notification is like
{ content-available:1 }
The Best part of the silent notification is that they do not notify the iPhone user
Here 1 is for their is something available to download from the server.
here below i have attached the apple's silent notification slide.
Your App is getting Refresh in the Background.
I have uploaded my SSL certificates to my project, focusing on the aps_development.cer.
When I launch my app, I get prompted asking if I want to allow notifications, so that is working properly. It's that the actual notification is not passing through.
My server appears that it is able to send a notification, and I am sending it to my device token.
I'm assuming it might be something with my code signing in Xcode. Is there something different I should be doing?
Preparing your app for push notifications is a long task. With the information your are giving it is not clear that what you are doing wrong.
When I look at it at first I see that no provisioning profile selected. You can't send push notifications without selecting appropriate provisioning profile.
Also what about your pem files and other stuff like gateway url etc?
You can follow these instructions to make push notifications work.
If the user turned off (assuming the user accepted to receive Push Notification in the app, but went to Settings to turn it off) Push Notification in Settings for an app, does this app still receive data sent in the notification when opening the app. This app does not receive/retrieve/request data in any other way except Push Notification.
The answer is simple: No, it doesn't.
I need to test if device token is received properly (if registration is successful), notification is received and badge count is updated in simulator. I know that we cant use push notification from simulator and check if badge count is updated from simulator. But my question is, will I be able to test by connecting with my device and debug from Xcode. Or Is there any other way to check before giving a beta test.
I have got the development and distribution (ad hoc) provisioning profiles.
I checked if push notification is enable in these profiles.
I use development to debug from simulator using device.
I followed all the steps required to set push notification from app side.
Is there a way to send notification manually and check if its received properly. Since the changes in the server are not yet completed I need to check it from app side.
Somebody please help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Yes, you can connect your device and debug from Xcode. You'll be able do see if the registration to APNS succeeded or failed based on the callback method being called (either the one that returns the device token or the one that indicates an error).
However, you can't send a notification without the server side. Well, technically you can, but it will be as complicated as implementing the push at the server side (you'll have to establish a TLS connection with APN server and send a notification in the binary format that Apple expects), and probably more complicated, since you'll have to implement it in Objective C.