Dear Apple!
During WWDC24 you announced that ONE_TIME_CHARGE notification is available on the sandbox environment and will be available "it will be available in production later this year" - it's March 2025 and there is still no production release of this feature.
Could you share some timeline and plans for when we can expect that feature deployed to production?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi there,
Thank you for the framework 🙏
if I use Alarm.Schedule.Relative with Alarm.Schedule.Relative.Time(hour: hour, minute: minute) and Alarm.Schedule.Relative.Recurrence.never it seems like there is some (odd?) limit where alarm will get scheduled to next day if too close?
For example, lets say the current time is 12:00 PM, if I schedule alarm for 12:02 PM, it will schedule it for next day, while if I do 12:05 PM it will work as expected.
Is that expected? If yes, what's the behavior and is that documented anywhere?
I would expect any alarm thats scheduled in the future to fire for the current day (maybe if it's only 1 minute it gets tricky).
One problem is also that even if the framework says an alarm is scheduled, I don't have access to the "next alarm date"? I wish I did as otherwise I have to compute it (by "guessing" the AlarmKit calculation) if I want to do anything with that date.
Honestly, sometimes I think I am just going crazy when the alarm doesn't fire, but there SEEMS to be some odd behavior around this?
(of course, feel free to correct me on anything - I could be missing documentation or not understanding something)
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Notifications
We have implemented Carplay in our voip based project and in this we have implemented Incoming call and chat notification feature for Carplay.
For Carplay we implemented siri.
Siri Object donated Successfully in Notification service Extension when notification didreceive method called.
Donation Code :-
func donateIncomingMessageIntent(sender: String, senderId: String, message: String, messageId: String, userInfo: [AnyHashable: Any],destination:String) {
// Create proper name components
clearAllinteraction()
var nameComponents = PersonNameComponents()
nameComponents.givenName = sender
//unknown
let senderPerson = INPerson(
personHandle: INPersonHandle(value: senderId, type: .unknown),
nameComponents: nameComponents,
displayName: sender,
image: nil,
contactIdentifier: senderId,
customIdentifier: "sender_\(senderId)"
)
let recipientPerson = INPerson(
personHandle: INPersonHandle(value: "me@example.com", type: .emailAddress),
nameComponents: nil,
displayName: "Me",
image: nil,
contactIdentifier: "me_id",
customIdentifier: "user_id"
)
let inMessage = INMessage(
identifier: messageId,
conversationIdentifier: "conversation_\(senderId)",
content: message,
dateSent: Date(),
sender: senderPerson,
recipients: [recipientPerson],
groupName: nil,
messageType: .text
)
let intent = INSearchForMessagesIntent(
recipients: [recipientPerson],
senders: [senderPerson],
searchTerms: [message],
attributes: .unread,
dateTime: nil,
identifiers: [messageId],
notificationIdentifiers: [messageId],
groupNames: ["Messages"]
)
let interaction = INInteraction(intent: intent, response: nil)
interaction.identifier = "message_\(messageId)"
interaction.direction = .incoming // Add direction
DispatchQueue.global(qos: .userInitiated).async {
interaction.donate { error in
if let error = error {
print("❌ Failed to donate INSearchForMessagesIntent: \(error.localizedDescription)")
} else {
print("✅ Donated INSearchForMessagesIntent successfully!")
let intentData: [String: Any] = [
"senderName": sender,
"senderId": senderId,
"message": message,
"messageId": messageId,
"timestamp": Date().timeIntervalSince1970,
"conversationId": "conversation_\(senderId)", // Add conversationId
"destination":destination
]
let defaults = UserDefaults(suiteName: "group.com.chatapp") // 🔁 Use your App Group ID
defaults?.removeObject(forKey: "lastCarPlayIntentData")
defaults?.set(intentData, forKey: "lastCarPlayIntentData")
defaults?.synchronize()
}
}
}
}
Here SenderID is like 3000@abc,2000@abc etc.
In siri ,When we handle INSearchForMessagesIntent at that time all data getting from Userdefaults because without Userdefaults INSearchForMessagesIntent value nil.
Even we enabled announcement using .allowAnnouncement.
We also tried to save same sender in contact Book because sometime siri search contact and not found then may be raise this type of issue.
So we need code level support for read incoming message in carplay when notification comes.
Thank you.
I am unable to connect to APNs sandbox push endpoint from our backend servers. It works fine when hitting the request from my local machine but it fails from the infra servers. Here are the complete curl details.
Endpoint: https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
CURL request and response:
curl -v https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
Trying 17.188.168.149:443...
Connected to api.sandbox.push.apple.com (17.188.168.149) port 443
ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
Closing connection
curl: (35) OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
There are no issues with Production endpoint.
Can someone help? Verified all certificates. Everything worked fine until 29th July but started failing since 30th July
I am creating an app that uses critical messages, I have been granted this entitlement and I am adding the certificate and in the info.plist. In the app I request authorization to send messages to specific numbers. When I try the app in production from Xcode this works fine and I can send the critical messages. However, when I am using the app in the test flight the authorization does not seem to be remembered on the background. Moreover, I go to security/privacy settings and I grant permission to the selected number (I see that it only shows one number even when I have to granted, its like it removes the previous one) however when I exit the setting page the permission is reset (and therefore denied), I think this is a bug. Can you look into that. Both this removing granted permission (HIGH PRIORITY, this message can only be sent in the background, therefore the user can not grant it and why the maximum telephone number to be granted to send messages is reset also to a single one LOWER PRIORITY).
Thanks
Hello, I am trying to utilize the Critical Messaging API to allow my user to message 1 or multiple pre registered contacts automatically.
An issue I am having with this in testing is that when the application attempts to fire off texts to the phone numbers the success rate changes from trial to trial, with no variable changing. Sometimes I can send a Critical Message to multiple phone numbers in rapid succession, sometimes the message is only sent to 1 contact, and sometimes I get no successes. Each failure always returns the MSCriticalMessaging.notSupported error.
The API documentation states, "The send(_:to:) method only works if the app is backgrounded, if it’s called from foreground the framework returns a MSCriticalMessagingError.notSupported error."
If my app is always backgrounded in these tests, what other issues may cause this notSupported error return, and why does the outcomes success rate vary?
I have three apps with a very low user rate, so it's easier to compare.
In all three apps, when I send a notification to APNs, over two-thirds receive a "Stored - Device Offline" status, but only one or two notifications are delivered afterward.
No message has been sent after that.
The total number of recipients is 89;
26 were delivered to the device, and 62 were stored in APNs.
One was delivered from storage, and one was discarded.
All app users are located in the same region, and mobile internet or Wi-Fi is available everywhere.
I can't believe that so many iPhone users aren't getting connected to APNs to receive the stored message. Or are event not connected.
Or are there any other reasons why a notification cant be transmitted. (User beahaviour, time of not using the app or something else?)
i hava a app using Gateway.push.apple.com to push Notifications,but it is not working sine last month, i test the api show push Notifications success but my device can't receive the Notifications ,is this api not working anymore ? but why the api show push Notifications success ?
I've added a Notification Service Extension as a target to my React Native iOS app following Apple's official documentation. After completing all the setup steps as outlined in the documentation, the notification titles remain unchanged - notifications are arriving without any modifications, suggesting the extension isn't functioning properly.Testing Details:
Sending notifications via Apple Push Notification Console
Tested on iPhone 16 Pro Max (physical device)
Tested on iPhone 15 Pro simulator
Both show the same issue - no title modifications
The extension appears to not be executing at all. Has anyone encountered similar issues with Notification Service Extensions in React Native projects, or can suggest troubleshooting steps to verify the extension is properly configured and running?
I am unable to connect to APNs sandbox push endpoint from our backend servers. It works fine when hitting the request from my local machine but it fails from the infra servers. Here are the complete curl details.
Endpoint: https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443 CURL request and response:
curl -v https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
Trying 17.188.168.149:443...
Connected to api.sandbox.push.apple.com (17.188.168.149) port 443
ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
Closing connection
curl: (35) OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443
There are no issues with Production endpoint. Can someone help? Verified all certificates. Everything worked fine until 29th July but started failing since 30th July
Here is the PCAP file. Additionally, Here is the outbound public IP : 3.251.214.255
apple_push_sandbox_pcap.txt
Hey there,i start a live activity,but it not works, and sometime it can work;
apns-unique-id 46445cfa-1bf6-0f63-5ea3-2afa53e02b0d
and it show that "
2025年5月19日 GMT+8 15:13:25.836
received by APNS Server
2025年5月19日 GMT+8 15:13:26.244
discarded as application was not registered"
but i did not know how can i do;
thanks for you help
I’m using iOS 26 beta 9 on my iPhone 15 Plus. When I receive a call from a contact with multiple phone numbers, the call history does not clearly show which specific number was used to call me. Why? How to fix this issue?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Notifications
There's plenty of articles out there about programatically grouping push notifications. However I have tried setting the thread-id in the push payload when sending a push, or setting the threadIdentifier for a received push in a notification service extension to be the same for several pushes.
But if within the iPhone Settings / Notifications the user selects to display pushes as List and turns off Notification Grouping, then each notification resulting from the push appears on its own separately.
Is there something other than thread-id/threadidentifier that is used to programmatically group them? If not then whats the point of these as grouping and display is actually under the control of user.
I wanted to know if Apple ever supported displaying a red dot on notificationswith no indication number.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Notifications
We are attempting to update our app to use the PTT framework, as it has been made clear that this will be required in a future iOS version as opposed to using the Unrestricted VoIP entitlement we are using for several features of our app.
However, the behavior of this framework poses some problems with implementing our app's functionality:
It is not possible to programmatically join a channel when the app is not in the foreground. This hinders our ability to implement the Automatically activate radio stream feature of our app, which allows users who have opted into this feature to immediately begin hearing live PTT audio from their agency following an incident alert. Having the app constantly "joined to a channel" and using the restoration delegate could potentially work, however this is not ideal as this would result in the PTT UI needing to be displayed at all times, even when no radio stream is activated.
We have a "Text to Speech" option that, when enabled, reads out the content of an incident alert after the alert sound has played. This currently happens by triggering an AVSpeechSynthesizer in the PushKit incoming push callback. It may be possible to render TTS audio on the fly in a Notification Service Extension and assign it as the notification's sound, if that is possible this is less of a problem.
We also use the PushKit callback to, again if the user has enabled it, activate a "Shake to Respond" feature, allowing a short period of time after receiving an incident alert in which the user can shake their device to indicate that they are responding to the incident. There does not appear to be any way to have the level of background execution required to implement this using an NSE, and this is of course beyond the scope of the PTT framework.
What options do we have to be able to continue to provide this functionality, without risk of it being disabled in a future iOS version?
Is there a public method to know when an APNS has appeared on the screen?
wrapping up a very high end photogrammetry app, using the front facing camera and screen illumination-
incoming notifications completely throw off the math.
Ideally, it would be great to turn on Do Not Disturb for the short process, but we’d settle for just the detection of the notification banner.
also: extra credit - programattically adjusting Auto Dimming, and True Tone would be lovely too.
If there is a Notification Service Extension which has the com.apple.developer.usernotifications.filtering entitlement, then does/how having that entitlement affect the preconditions for the NSE to be delivered a push?
Specifically, if the app has not prompted for requestAuthorization() is it expected that the push will be delivered to the NSE or not?
Thank you
I trying to validate the certificate I created for APNS using the following command but I get an error.
openssl s_client -connect gateway.push.apple.com:2195 -cert temp.pem -debug -showcerts
Error: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
connect:errno=0
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Notifications
Hello, we have recently started signing and building our applications using Xcode 16.3. Since we made this change, we’ve noticed that the applications have stopped receiving silent push notifications (content-available: 1) when they are distributed via TestFlight or the App Store, even though we haven’t changed anything in the way these notifications are sent.
As I mentioned, this started happening after migrating our project from Xcode 15 to Xcode 16.3. Regular push notifications are still working as expected, but silent ones are not being received by the apps.
We are desperate because we rely on these silent notifications to inform the apps of updates, and we haven’t been able to identify the root cause of the issue.
In iOS 26, I can check the notification that arrives to the user when the AirPods or Apple Watch is fully charged. When tap the notification, notification only expands and does not include actions such as moving to an app.
I checked the documents of UserNotification and UNNotificationServiceExtension, but I couldn't find what I wanted.
I can expand by long-tapping as default, but I'm looking for a way to expand it without entering the app when I tap the notification.
I wonder if there is an API that I missed or if it's not publicly supported.
thank you for your support.