I can't get push notifications to appear in alert or banner form

Question

I have registered for remote notifications fine

I have the deviceToken, the server is using it, it's sending messages to my test user, and when the app is in foreground I breakpoint and receive incoming remote notifications.

But when the app is backgrounded, nothing.

SSL certs signed for dev and prod. Currently, I using the dev push.pem with sandboxed APNS address, against a iOS Developer signed profile.

Help?

Answer 1

Thank you for the suggestions but the problem has been resolved, it was an issue with the server payload

1 Our server is using a third party push notification library 2 this library was wrapping our json payload

Our payload

aps: { alert: ...,

With another layer

aps: { alert: { aps: { alert: ...,

Apple's APNs wasn't complaining one bit because the json is not malformed and totally legitimate and within size

I found this out after looking at the incoming notifications, while my iphone was run from/connected to Xcode.

Human error, server side

Answer 2

Do as @karlos Suggest. And also add "content-available":1 in your payload because by providing this key with a value of 1 will indicate that new content is available. Including this key and value means that when your app is launched in the background or resumed, application:didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler: is called.

For more information follow this link.

Answer 3

Set the "Remote Notification" on in your app Capabilities as shown in the figure below:

Hope this might be helpful.