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# APS Environment (macOS) Entitlement

The environment for push notifications in macOS apps.

## Discussion

This key specifies whether to use the development or production Apple Push Notification service (APNs) environment when registering for push notifications with <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSApplication/registerForRemoteNotifications()>.

Xcode sets the value of the entitlement based on your app’s current provisioning profile. For example, if you’re using a development provisioning profile, Xcode sets the value to `development`.

To add this entitlement to your app, enable the Push Notifications capability in Xcode.

## See Also

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/UserNotifications/registering-your-app-with-apns>


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