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Laurent
Laurent

Reputation: 197

Push Notifications on iPhone without alerts to the user

I have searched the web on my question but did not find anyone answering it. This looks weird as I am sure other people face similar issue.

At the moment my app is receiving push notification fine. I have a chat module where user can speak and whenever a new message is being sent, the other phone receive a push notification to update the chat.

You could say no issue there, but the problem is when the user is out of the application: he is still receiving those notifications showing a banner on the screen, and I want to dis-activate this. Basically I want push notification without alerts to the user. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3177

Answers (1)

Baris Akar
Baris Akar

Reputation: 4965

Just leave the sound property of your push notification payload empty, omit the alert/text property and add "content-available":1 and your notification will be silent. This is often referred to as silent push notification or "push-to-sync".

See documentation here:

For a push notification to trigger a download operation, the notification’s payload must include the content-available key with its value set to 1. When that key is present, the system wakes the app in the background (or launches it into the background) and calls the app delegate’s application:didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler: method. Your implementation of that method should download the relevant content and integrate it into your app

So your payload should least look like this:

    {
        "aps" : {
            "content-available" : 1,
            "sound" : ""
        },
        "chat-message" : "Hello World!"
    }

Upvotes: 4

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