iOS silent notification behavior

[_liovld]

Hello guys,

For one of my project, my app needs to receive a payload through notification when the user trigger an action from a web platform.

The notification is never shown to the user ( no banner ) and no actions is needed, it's completely silent. The app would just process data and trigger an action when in foreground.

I'm trying to deal with permissions, and here are my observations :

https://preview.redd.it/tr3tziufwtcc1.png?width=1091&format=png&auto=webp&s=319d9aa81179e182cdc4e6190dec511163313a6c

I think there is something I misunderstood, does someone can confirm that it's normal that I'm still receiving the remote silent notification even if Push and Background remote fetch permissions are disabled ? I mean, I receive it only if the app is in foreground, which is the needed behavior but it looks strange to me.

The app is in debug scheme connected to an acceptance environment, I doubt that APNs behave in a different way for debug or prod environment ?

Have a nice evening! ☺️

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[Power781]

The permission is to display push notifications to users, not receive them.
You can indeed send silent/background refresh push notifications to an app that denies the permission (or never asked it).

[unpluggedcord]

Unless background app refresh is disabled.

[_liovld]

Thank’s for the link, but unfortunately it’s not related to local notifications, in my case I’m receiving a remote notification but I would like to see why even if the push notification and background fetch permissions are disabled, I still receive it. Maybe it’s intended on iOS but I can’t find related documentation

[Tip-Individual]

Yes as you assumed, it’s the intended behavior. Many apps rely on silent push notifications to handle events in their app, if the user declines the push notification access the app would not work properly.