We're experiencing an issue where push notifications are not being received on certain iOS devices, and we'd like help identifying the possible causes. What we've confirmed so far: Push notifications are sent from our own provider server to APNs. APNs returns a normal response (HTTP/2 200) The device tokens are valid and up to date. Affected users have confirmed that notifications are enabled for our app in Settings. Users report no network connectivity issues. We are sending with apns-priority: 10 and apns-push-type: alert. Scope: This is occurring for multiple users, not isolated to a single device. It happens intermittently — some notifications from the same campaign reach the device, while others don't. Critically, some affected users report that they only fail to receive notifications from our app during certain specific time windows, while notifications from other apps arrive normally during the same period. This suggests the issue is app-specific and time-correlated, rather than a device-wide or network-level problem. Questions we'd like help with: Given that APNs returns 200, are there known scenarios where the notification still doesn't reach the device? (e.g., Focus / Do Not Disturb, low power mode, high-frequency throttling, stored-then-discarded due to apns-expiration) Is there a recommended way to obtain per-notification delivery status in the production environment? Are there known limits on how many notifications can be sent to the same device within a short window before APNs starts throttling or coalescing them? Our server logs currently do not retain the apns-id returned by APNs. If we provide the affected device tokens along with the approximate send timestamps, would it be possible for Apple to help investigate the delivery status of those notifications on the APNs side? Any guidance or pointers to relevant documentation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Beginning July 29, 2026, we noticed a higher number of error responses from api.sandbox.push.apple.com: http2: server sent GOAWAY and closed the connection; LastStreamID=2147483647; ErrCode=PROTOCOL_ERROR; debug="Stream 3 does not exist for inbound frame DATA, endOfStream = true" The errors: Occur across multiple independent applications and regions. Are concentrated on the APNs sandbox endpoint. Did not coincide with a deployment or configuration change in our service. Were not accompanied by other typical failures such as 400 BadDeviceToken. Also increased on the APNs production endpoint, though the large majority remain concentrated on the sandbox endpoint. Could Apple confirm whether APNs recently changed how notification requests are validated or rejected, particularly in the sandbox environment? We can provide exact UTC timestamps, source regions, request metadata, and logs privately if needed.

Beginning July 29, 2026, we observe communication erros while sending push notifications to https://api.push.apple.com like: Error in the HTTP2 framing layer Send failure: Connection reset by peer Also we ran tcpdump which clearly indicates that TCP RESET packets are coming from various APNS IP like 17.188.x.x. Errors mostly occure during traffic peak but also outside. We also did a test from different datacenter in other country and which resulted a same issue

We're investigating an edge case around push/local notification handling on macOS when multiple instances of the same app are running simultaneously, launched via open -n /path/to/App.app. We're aware this isn't the standard/expected usage pattern for macOS apps, which are singleton by default, but we need to understand and correctly handle this case, so any clarity here would help. Setup: macOS app, AppKit, using NSApplicationDelegate and UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate. Two separate processes of the same app launched via open -n, each independently calling UNUserNotificationCenter.current().delegate = self and registerForRemoteNotifications() on launch. Questions: Device token : is the device token unique per device and app installation, or could two separately-running processes of the same installed app each be issued a different token? Our understanding from Apple's documentation is that the token identifies the app and device combination, not a specific process. Can you confirm this holds even in a multi-instance scenario? Notification tap routing : when a notification, local or remote, is tapped and both process instances have independently registered a UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate, which instance's delegate receives userNotificationCenter didReceive withCompletionHandler? Is this deterministic, for example the most recently registered instance, or the one most recently connected to usernoted? Is it arbitrary or undefined? Or does the system only allow one instance's delegate connection to be active at a time, silently disconnecting the other? Is there any documented or recommended way for an app to detect it's running as a secondary instance launched via open -n, and adjust its notification handling behavior accordingly, if relevant? We understand this falls outside the normal supported usage pattern for macOS apps, but since the behavior isn't documented for this scenario, any insight, even confirming this is undefined behavior, would be genuinely useful for us to plan around.

It's been 2+ months now since I've submitted an entitlement request for the Notification Service Filtering Entitlement (NSE). I have a mobile app that I transferred from a previous developer account due to business reorganization and the previous account had this entitlement. However, after transferring the app, I am unable to push any updates to the app on iOS because the new developer account does not have the same entitlement. Everything outside of the developer account that the app is associated to remains the same - same workflow, same audience, same app use cases, etc.. However, we still have not had any progress on receiving the entitlement even after multiple escalations and follow-ups with the Apple Developer Support team. I am curious to know if any others within the Developer Community have requested this specific entitlement before and what your experience has been with it? Any advice on how I can expedite the approval for the entitlement? Otherwise our app continues to go stale on the iOS app store.

Updated with FB24122131. Here's the ready-to-paste forum post: Title: registerForRemoteNotifications() never completes (no success, no error callback) since July 3 — App Store Connect metrics confirm same cutoff Body: Posting in case anyone else has hit this — happy to compare notes, and I've also filed FB24122131 with Apple directly. Since ~July 3, 2026, our app (MyRoost, iOS) has been completely unable to register for remote notifications. registerForRemoteNotifications() is called at launch, but neither didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken: nor didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError: ever fires. No token, no error — just silence, indefinitely. This isn't a new-integration bug — the same code worked fine through July 2. What's interesting is that App Store Connect's own "Push Notifications → Overview" dashboard for our app independently shows notifications received by APNs dropping from ~20/day to flat zero starting exactly July 3, matching our own logs precisely. We've ruled out essentially everything on our side: Push Notifications capability + entitlements (independently verified present in the actual signed binary, not just source, via a CI step that dumps the compiled .ipa's Info.plist and codesign entitlements) Firebase/APNs Authentication Key configuration OS-level notification permission (confirmed granted) MDM/configuration profiles (none), Screen Time restrictions (none) Wi-Fi vs. cellular (identical failure on both) Full device reboot, clean reinstall, account logout/login Reproduced identically on two separate physical devices (iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 26.5.2; iPad A16, iPadOS 26.5.2) Added native diagnostic logging to capture the raw error from didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError: directly — confirms the native callback itself never fires, not just that we're failing to observe it Filed an Apple Developer Support case (102936910825) on July 8 — after investigation, closed 2026-07-30 as "outside scope" and redirected here / to Feedback Assistant. Has anyone else seen a total, silent APNs registration failure like this, starting around the same early-July timeframe? Any workaround, or confirmation this is a known platform-side issue, would be hugely appreciated.

Across two completely separate App IDs under the same Apple Developer Team, calling registerForRemoteNotifications() (via a standard push-notification plugin wrapping this exact API) resolves successfully — but afterward neither application(:didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:) nor application(:didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:) is ever called. No token, no error. Registration just stalls permanently. Environment Xcode 26.4.1 Distribution: TestFlight (App Store distribution profile → production APNs environment) iOS on all test devices: current release The key finding This isn't specific to one app. I reproduced the identical failure on: Our primary app's App ID, which has existed for a while and had Push Notifications enabled after initial creation. A brand-new, throwaway App ID created from scratch specifically to test this, with Push Notifications capability checked at creation time (no toggling after the fact, no history at all). Both show the exact same symptom: register() resolves, then silence — no callback of either kind, ever. Since this reproduces identically on an App ID with zero prior history, it rules out anything specific to one app's configuration or App Store Connect record, and points at something at the Team level with APNs backend authorization. What I've ruled out Entitlements/provisioning are correct and matching, verified via direct inspection of the signed binary: codesign -d --entitlements :- MyApp.app and the provisioning profile's own entitlements: security cms -D -i MyApp.app/embedded.mobileprovision | plutil -extract Entitlements xml1 -o - - Both show identical, correct values — aps-environment: production, correct application-identifier, correct team-identifier. Reproduced identically across: 2 separate App IDs (one long-standing, one brand new) 2 different physical iPhones 2 different WiFi networks 2 different accounts/user sessions within the app Already tried with no change in behavior: Enabling Push Notifications after initial App ID creation, vs. checking it at creation time on the fresh App ID Toggling the capability off/on and regenerating the provisioning profile Generating multiple fresh App Store distribution profiles Confirmed the Distribution certificate referenced is correct and valid Client code confirmed correct via instrumented logging at every step (permission check → permission request → listener attachment → register() call). Every step up to and including register() resolving completes exactly as expected. The stall is strictly after that point, entirely on the OS/APNs side. What I'm trying to determine Given this reproduces on a completely fresh App ID with no history, I believe this points at something about how APNs backend authorization is provisioned for this Developer Team as a whole, rather than any individual App ID's configuration. Has anyone seen this exact symptom — registration call succeeding but zero callback of either kind — and found a resolution that wasn't visible from anything in the Developer Portal or Xcode? Filed as Apple Developer Support case 20000117948923 — happy to share any additional diagnostics.

We are investigating a notification-reply issue with a BLE accessory on iOS 27 Beta 4, built with Xcode 26.5. Our app uses an Accessory Transport App Extension and an Accessory Data Provider Extension for notification forwarding and text replies. Expected behavior A text reply entered on the accessory should be delivered to the transport extension, forwarded to the data provider extension, and then submitted through the system notification response API. Observed behavior A messaging notification with a text-input Reply action is forwarded successfully to the accessory. If the user replies shortly after the notification arrives, the full path succeeds: the BLE reply payload is received by the transport extension, forwarded to the data provider extension, parsed, and the system notification response API succeeds. If the user waits about 1-2 minutes before replying, the reply fails. The original notification was forwarded successfully and BLE was ready. We see the accessory acknowledgement for notification delivery. Log evidence The successful path contains BLE receive, transport reassembly, a parsed Reply action with user text, and a successful notification response API call. In the delayed-reply case, after the background window expires the host app is reported as running-suspended. When the accessory reply is attempted, there is no new invocation of either extension and no incoming BLE reply payload in those extensions. Therefore no notification response API call is made. This does not appear to depend on screen state. The relevant difference is whether the accessory reply occurs before or after the background execution window ends. Question After an accessory notification has already been delivered, what is the supported mechanism for a delayed accessory text reply to wake or re-invoke the Accessory Transport App Extension and route the reply to the Accessory Data Provider Extension? Is this expected lifecycle behavior for these extensions on iOS 27 Beta 4, or is there an entitlement, configuration, or API requirement needed to support delayed replies? We can provide a sysdiagnose and a minimal reproduction timeline privately if needed.We are investigating a notification-reply issue with a BLE accessory on iOS 27 Beta 4, built with Xcode 26.5. Our app uses an Accessory Transport App Extension and an Accessory Data Provider Extension for notification forwarding and text replies. Expected behavior A text reply entered on the accessory should be delivered to the transport extension, forwarded to the data provider extension, and then submitted through the system notification response API. Observed behavior A messaging notification with a text-input Reply action is forwarded successfully to the accessory. If the user replies shortly after the notification arrives, the full path succeeds: the BLE reply payload is received by the transport extension, forwarded to the data provider extension, parsed, and the system notification response API succeeds. If the user waits about 1-2 minutes before replying, the reply fails. The original notification was forwarded successfully and BLE was ready. We see the accessory acknowledgement for notification delivery. Log evidence The successful path contains BLE receive, transport reassembly, a parsed Reply action with user text, and a successful notification response API call. In the delayed-reply case, after the background window expires the host app is reported as running-suspended. When the accessory reply is attempted, there is no new invocation of either extension and no incoming BLE reply payload in those extensions. Therefore no notification response API call is made. This does not appear to depend on screen state. The relevant difference is whether the accessory reply occurs before or after the background execution window ends. Question After an accessory notification has already been delivered, what is the supported mechanism for a delayed accessory text reply to wake or re-invoke the Accessory Transport App Extension and route the reply to the Accessory Data Provider Extension? Is this expected lifecycle behavior for these extensions on iOS 27 Beta 4, or is there an entitlement, configuration, or API requirement needed to support delayed replies? We can provide a sysdiagnose and a minimal reproduction timeline privately if needed.

Hello Apple DTS Team, We are optimizing a real-time iOS 26 WidgetKit architecture that utilizes both direct WidgetKit APNs pushes and Notification Service Extension (NSE) background asset downloading. We would appreciate technical clarification regarding budget allocation, execution latency, and view hierarchy invalidation on iOS 26. Architecture Overview Our system handles real-time visual updates across multiple distinct Widget kinds (KindA, KindB) using a dual-path pipeline: Direct WidgetKit APNs Push (iOS 26): Registers tokens via WidgetPushHandler (pushTokenDidChange(_:widgets:)). Remote server sends APNs requests targeting <bundleID>.push-type.widgets with apns-push-type: widgets and payload {"aps": {"content-changed": true}}. NSE Asset Pre-Fetch (Notification Service Extension): Server sends a remote notification containing mutable-content: 1 and asset metadata. The NSE intercepts the payload, streams the binary image asset into a shared App Group container (FileManager.default.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:)), writes JSON state to shared UserDefaults, and executes targeted timeline reloads via WidgetCenter.shared.reloadTimelines(ofKind: "KindA"). Timeline Provider: TimelineProvider.getTimeline() reads data synchronously from the shared App Group UserDefaults, resolves the local file path via UIImage(contentsOfFile:), and returns a single SimpleEntry with TimelineReloadPolicy.after(25 minutes) alongside TimelineEntryRelevance(score: 100.0). Technical Questions & Observed Behaviors Per-Kind Budget Isolation vs. Bundle-Wide Budget: Does dasd / chronod maintain an independent 70-reload daily budget for each individual Widget kind (or widget instance), or is the daily background reload budget shared globally across all widget kinds within the extension bundle? Does calling WidgetCenter.shared.reloadTimelines(ofKind: "KindA") from an NSE deduct budget tokens only from KindA's budget bucket, or does it deduct from a global shared bundle pool? NSE Reload Budget Deductions vs. Direct WidgetKit Pushes: Does a direct WidgetKit APNs push (apns-push-type: widgets) draw from a completely separate APNs push budget pool than a WidgetCenter.shared.reloadTimelines(ofKind:) call issued inside an NSE? When an NSE issues reloadTimelines(ofKind:) in response to a user-visible notification (alert + mutable-content: 1), does iOS grant notification grace tokens that bypass standard _DASWidgetBudget deductions? WidgetKit Push Notification Delivery & Rendering Inconsistencies on iOS 26: When sending direct WidgetKit APNs pushes (apns-push-type: widgets), we observe 3 distinct, inconsistent behaviors in production on iOS 26: a) Successful Instant Update: APNs push arrives → WidgetKit wakes up immediately → getTimeline() executes (<0.1s) → Home Screen widget displays the new image instantly. b) Complete Execution Drop: APNs push is sent by our server (HTTP 200 response from APNs api.push.apple.com) → WidgetKit never wakes up, and getTimeline() is completely ignored/not invoked by iOS. c) Execution Success but Screen Bitmap Stale: APNs push arrives → getTimeline() wakes up, executes, and loads the image successfully from disk (UIImage(contentsOfFile:) returns a valid image) → completion(Timeline(entries: [entry])) returns → BUT the displayed image on the Home Screen does NOT change or repaint until the user opens the main app. Questions for DTS Engineers: Why does iOS 26 occasionally drop getTimeline invocation for direct apns-push-type: widgets pushes even when APNs returns HTTP 200? Is Image(uiImage:) rendering inside WidgetKit subject to view hierarchy caching if the SimpleEntry struct date is updated but SwiftUI considers the view tree structurally identical? Does binding an explicit .id(assetPath) modifier to the Image view force SpringBoard's compositor layer to invalidate and repaint immediately upon getTimeline completion? Thank you for your guidance!

Posting here per DTS guidance (no reduced sample project available). Creating a CKQuerySubscription on the PUBLIC database in the Production environment always fails, on a production-signed TestFlight build. It works in the Development environment; only Production rejects it. Error: CKError 12 (invalidArguments); underlying "BadSyntax" (2006); server message = "attempting to create a subscription in a production container". The subscription: let sub = CKQuerySubscription( recordType: "PublicSolution", predicate: NSPredicate(format: "%K == %@", "challengeAuthorID", myUserRecordName), subscriptionID: "MyChallengeSolved-", options: [.firesOnRecordCreation]) let info = CKSubscription.NotificationInfo() info.shouldSendContentAvailable = true sub.notificationInfo = info try await container.publicCloudDatabase.save(sub) Verified (all good): TestFlight build is distribution-signed: aps-environment = production (confirmed with codesign on the archive). APNs registration succeeds on device (valid token). CKContainer.accountStatus = .available; userRecordID resolves. Reads of PublicSolution succeed in Production. challengeAuthorID on PublicSolution is QUERYABLE in the deployed Production schema (verified in CloudKit Console). Dev and Production schemas are identical; deployed to Production multiple times (Console reports "no changes"). Removing notificationInfo.desiredKeys made no difference. Push Notifications capability present; entitlement aps-environment = production. Question: What makes Production reject this public-DB CKQuerySubscription create, and what container-side configuration allows it? Same code succeeds in Development. Container: iCloud.JCM.Contraptor

We are the publisher of an iOS application available on the App Store, published under our Apple Developer account. Our app is a B2B enterprise product where multiple independent enterprise server deployments — each operated by a separate customer organisation — send push notifications to their own end users through our single published app binary. To support this multi-tenant architecture, we have designed the following push notification setup: A single iOS app published under our Apple Developer Team A single APNs P8 authentication key generated from our Apple Developer account One Firebase project provisioned per customer organisation, each configured with the same P8 key and the same iOS bundle ID Each customer's Firebase project independently delivers push notifications only to device tokens registered by that customer's users At any point in time, a single device is registered with exactly one customer's Firebase project — there is no concurrent multi-Firebase registration on a single device We have technically validated that multiple Firebase projects sharing the same P8 key and bundle ID can each deliver push notifications to our app without conflict. APNs validates the JWT signed by the P8 key and the bundle ID claim, which is consistent across all projects. Our question is: Does this architecture — where multiple Firebase projects, all controlled by the app publisher or partners and provisioned with the same APNs P8 key and bundle ID, independently send push notifications to a single App Store app — comply with the Apple Developer Program License Agreement and Apple's APNs usage policies? We want to confirm this before proceeding to production and App Store submission to ensure we are fully compliant with Apple's guidelines? Multiple server will send push notifications to single app store app via each separate firebase account per server, will it violate any apple policy? Please let us know if any additional technical details would help clarify our setup.

I'm running a PoC to validate remote push notification delivery on macOS (AppKit, no Storyboard, programmatic setup) using UNUserNotificationCenter. Environment: macOS Version 26.5 (25F71) Xcode Version 26.2 (17C52) App: sandboxed, entitlements include aps-environment: development, Push Notifications + Background Modes (Remote notifications) capabilities enabled Auth: token-based (.p8 key, ES256 JWT), sent via curl directly to api.sandbox.push.apple.com Setup: UNUserNotificationCenter.current().requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .badge, .sound]) { granted, error in if granted { NSApplication.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications() } } Delegate implements both: func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) and the legacy: func application(_ application: NSApplication, didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [String: Any]) Repro steps: App launches, permission granted (true), device token successfully obtained via didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken Local notifications (via UNNotificationRequest + UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger) work correctly — banner displays, willPresent fires as expected Send a remote push via curl: curl -v --header "apns-topic: $TOPIC" --header "apns-push-type: alert" \ --header "authorization: bearer $AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN" \ --data '{"aps": {"alert": {"title": "Test Title","body": "Test Body"}}}' \ --http2 https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com/3/device/$DEVICE_TOKEN APNs responds HTTP/2 200 with a valid apns-id — accepted successfully Observed: No banner appears on screen Notification does not appear in Notification Center either Console log shows application(_:didReceiveRemoteNotification:) fired with the correct payload willPresent is never called for this remote push, despite firing correctly for local notifications in the same session Question: Given willPresent is documented to be the method responsible for foreground presentation decisions, and it's working correctly for local notifications, why would a remote alert-type push (with a proper alert dict, no content-available) route only through the legacy didReceiveRemoteNotification path and never reach willPresent/get displayed, despite a 200 response from APNs? One thing I noticed while investigating: the App ID used for this app (auto-created by Xcode's automatic signing) lists its Platform as "iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS" only — macOS is not checked, even though the app itself is macOS-only and Push Notifications capability shows as enabled. Could this platform scoping on the App ID be responsible for APNs/the OS accepting the push at the network layer but not treating it as "alert-UI eligible" for display? Is macOS required to be explicitly checked as a platform on the App ID for willPresent to be invoked correctly, or is that unrelated? Any guidance on what determines whether a remote push is routed to the foreground presentation path vs. the legacy background delegate path on macOS would be appreciated.

Hello everyone, We have a feature in our iOS app called "automatic background sync", which syncs data between the mobile app and our backend periodically. It is specifically designed to work when the app is in a backgrounded state. We use both silent remote notifications that are sent from our backend periodically (using Firebase Cloud Messaging), and also BGAppRefresh task. The sync process should be as reliable as possible and work continuously while the app is in the background, even if the user does not open the app for a long period of time. We enforce a 20 second deadline to call the completion handler to match the 30 second limit. We have a specific customer that has multiple where the background sync does not work properly: One of them has continuous syncs for about a week, then it stops until the user opens (moves to foreground) the app again. Another user only has a sync when they open the app, then it stops when it is backgrounded. Looking at their logs: The app remains in the background and is rarely being actively killed, and it likely is not the reason that the user stopped receiving syncs. Their background app refresh setting in iOS settings is enabled. Both user's app stopped waking up and doing the task either from silent remote notifications or background tasks. Thank you!

Some users are reporting that they don't see Live Activities, but our logs show that the trigger was sent successfully. Is there a way to investigate on the client side why the Live Activity didn't appear? Logs on client side? anything?

I'm working on adding Live Activities to my app but I'm running into a problem, and I'm wondering if anyone knows what's going on. The live activities are started and updated entirely via push notifications (sent through FCM). On the lock screen, updates come through fine for a while, but then the activity gets stuck while the phone is locked. The moment I unlock the device, it immediately jumps to the latest state. I've tried different update frequencies and sending with both priority 5 and priority 10, but no luck. I've also looked through the liveactivitiesd logs, but I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. And yes, NSSupportsLiveActivitiesFrequentUpdates is enabled.

Hi everyone, We have an iOS app that is currently live on the App Store under Company 1's Apple Developer account, and we are planning to transfer it to Company 2's Apple Developer account using Apple's App Transfer process. Our current push notification setup is as follows: Push notifications are sent using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Firebase is configured with an APNs Authentication Key (.p8) generated from Company 1's Apple Developer account. The app uses the same Bundle ID before and after the transfer. We would like to understand the expected behavior after the app transfer. Our questions are: Will users who already have the app installed continue to receive push notifications after the app has been transferred? Once the app is owned by Company 2, will the APNs Authentication Key from Company 1 continue to work, or must it be replaced immediately with a new key generated from Company 2's Apple Developer account? Is there any supported way to configure APNs so that both the old and new APNs Authentication Keys can be used during the migration period, allowing push notifications to be delivered seamlessly to all users? 3)If simultaneous APNs keys are not supported, what is the recommended migration strategy to avoid any interruption in push notification delivery during the transfer? Our goal is to ensure that existing users continue receiving push notifications without disruption while we complete the App Store transfer. Any guidance or best practices from Apple or developers who have gone through a similar migration would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I create a Live Activity remotely via push-to-start, then use its per-activity token (Activity.pushTokenUpdates) so my server can send update/end pushes. To make sure I'm not missing tokens, I observe Activity.activityUpdates and prime from the Activity.activities snapshot at launch and on sceneWillEnterForeground, then subscribe each activity's pushTokenUpdates and POST the token to my server. This works reliably while the app is running or backgrounded/suspended — the system wakes it and I capture the token. The problem is the user force-quit case (swiped from the App Switcher, never reopened): Push-to-start still creates the Live Activity and it renders correctly on the Lock Screen. But pushTokenUpdates never fires, so my server never receives the per-activity token and can't update or end that activity. A backgrounded (not force-quit) app, as a control, captures the token every time. So it seems specific to user-termination rather than all "not running" states. I understand force-quit apps generally aren't granted background runtime — I'm trying to confirm whether that applies here and what the right pattern is. What's the recommended approach? Specifically: Is there any supported way to get the per-activity token to my server while the app stays force-quit — e.g. from the widget extension (does it have any access to Activity.pushToken, or only ActivityViewContext?) or a Notification Service Extension? 2. If not, is setting stale-date on the start push the intended way to let the card expire gracefully when it can never be ended via push? 3. Is there a better pattern for keeping a push-started Live Activity correct when the app is never relaunched?

Hello, I am implementing background processing using Silent Push Notifications in an iOS application. The app needs to receive requests from a server and execute processing in the background. For this purpose, I am using Silent Push Notifications to wake up the application. However, the application is not being launched as expected when running the TestFlight version. I would appreciate any guidance regarding this behavior. Environment Xcode 26.3 iOS 18.6 TestFlight distribution Push Notifications capability enabled Background Modes enabled Remote notifications enabled APNs Authentication Key (.p8) APNs Production environment Background Previously, the application periodically connected to a server in the background and sent location information when requested by the server. Since that background processing no longer behaves as expected, I started implementing an alternative approach using Silent Push Notifications. When running the application directly from Xcode in Debug mode, Silent Push works correctly and the app is launched in the background. However, when using the TestFlight build on the same device, the behavior differs and the app is not launched in the background. Observed Behavior The APNs request appears to be successful: APNs response status is HTTP 200 Using the device token obtained from the TestFlight build Alert Push notifications are received successfully application:didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler: is called when the app is in the foreground The same method is not called when the app is in the background Silent Push payload: { "aps": { "content-available": 1 } } HTTP/2 headers: apns-push-type: background apns-priority: 5 Verified Items Production device token is being used APNs topic matches the application's bundle identifier Alert Push notifications work correctly Background App Refresh is enabled on the device The application has not been force-quit completionHandler is always called after processing completes Console Logs The following logs appear when the push is sent: Submitted: com.apple.pushLaunch.jp.co.comp.MyApp.ext.mdm Application Policy response: {100, 0.00, [{[pushDisallowed]: Required:0.00, Observed:1.00},]} Decision: AMNP I also see: Insufficient history window for deviceActivityLikelihood stream deviceActivityLikelihood returned a nil timeline Questions Under what conditions are pushDisallowed and Decision: AMNP generated? What factors can cause iOS to reject a background launch triggered by a Silent Push Notification? Since Alert Push notifications are received successfully, is it reasonable to conclude that APNs configuration, topic configuration, and device token usage are correct? Are there any specific settings, entitlements, or implementation details that should be reviewed to resolve the pushDisallowed condition? The behavior differs between the Debug build launched from Xcode and the TestFlight build running on the same device. Are there any restrictions, policies, or differences applied to TestFlight builds that could explain this behavior? If the observed behavior is expected by design, what would Apple recommend as the appropriate architecture or API for server-triggered background processing in this scenario? Thank you for your time and assistance.

Good morning, We are implementing Live Activities in a push-to-start flow. We wrap the listener for push to start tokens in a high priority task: if ptsListenerTask == nil || ptsListenerTask?.isCancelled == true { ptsListenerTask = Task(priority: .high) { [weak self] in for await pushToken in Activity<LiveAuctionAttributes>.pushToStartTokenUpdates { //Send token to back-end } } I've tried a few variations of this and they work well on most devices. I have seen a couple of devices that refuse to issue a push to start token. The user will have logging for the init flow and starting the PTS listener then the logs just go silent, nothing happens. One thing that seemed to work was getting the user to start a Live Activity manually (from our debugging tool) then the PTS token gets issued. This is not very reliable and working a mock live activity into the flow for obtaining a PTS token is a poor solution. Is anyone else seeing this and is there a known issue with obtaining PTS tokens? Thanks! Brad

We are seeing a reproducible scenario on iOS 26 where incoming VoIP push notifications are never delivered when the device has been idle and screen-locked for 30+ minutes. The same failure was observed simultaneously on WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams and our app as well, on the same device during one incident, confirming this is a platform-level issue and not specific to our implementation. We have captured full system logs across three separate incidents. Below are the exact log sequences. Incident — All VoIP apps fail simultaneously (Our app, WhatsApp, Teams) Device: iPhone 17 Pro · iOS: 18.x · Network: 5G NSA (kNRNSA) The device had been idle with the screen locked for approximately 31 minutes. An LTE cell handover caused apsd to begin an APNs reconnection. powerd entered policy 3 before apsd reached channel-flow viable, defuncting the app. 17:45:59.562 symptomsd New RRC 0 when previous 1 from pdp_ip0 ↑ Radio drops to RRC_Idle. Device has been idle since 17:14:56 (31 min). 17:46:01.206 CommCenter #I Mapping the registration state to kRegisteredHome ↑ LTE cell handover triggers RRC reconnect. 17:46:01.330 apsd [C138 IPv4#b71cac13:5223 ready parent-flow (satisfied (Path is satisfied), interface: pdp_ip0[lte], scoped, ipv4, ipv6, dns, expensive, uses cell, LQM: good)] event: path:satisfied_change @594.391s ↑ APNs path re-satisfied. Reconnection begins. channel-flow viable NOT yet reached — TLS handshake still in progress. 17:48:08.057 apsd Powerd has requested assertion activity update ↑ Warning: powerd about to change policy. ── 2 minutes 40 seconds after APNs reconnect started ── 17:48:41.248 powerd Sending com.apple.powerd.assertionpolicy 3 17:48:41.250 apsd Update assertion policy 3 17:48:41.250 powerd Activity changes from 0x1 to 0x0. UseActiveState:0 17:48:41.250 powerd hidActive:0 displayOff:1 assertionActivityValid:0 ↑ Screen off, device locked. OS enters restricted idle. apsd restricted. APNs reconnection abandoned. 17:48:42.669 kernel necp_process_defunct_list: necp_update_client abort nexus error (2) for pid 1518 Comera ↑ Kernel terminates Comera's network stack via NECP. No API available to prevent this. WhatsApp and Teams remain suspended — no DEFUNCT, but apsd in policy 3 means no push delivery for them either. ── Dead zone: VoIP pushes for all 3 apps undeliverable ── 17:50:04.028 powerd Process CommCenter.104 Created SystemIsActive "com.apple.ipTelephony.sipIncoming.cell" ↑ Incoming cellular PSTN call forces system wake. 17:50:04.494 powerd Sending com.apple.powerd.assertionpolicy 0 17:50:04.598 apsd Update assertion policy 0 ↑ Full wake. Queued VoIP pushes from Comera, WhatsApp, and Teams are delivered simultaneously. Gap between channel-flow viable needed and actual delivery: 4 minutes 3 seconds. Recovery trigger: external cellular call from carrier — not any app action. Working case (same test, different conditions) Device: iPhone 17 Pro · iOS: 26.5.1 · Screen unlocked, no hotspot 19:2x:xx apsd policy state {downgradeWhenLocked: NO, isSystemLocked: NO, isConnectedOnUltraConstrainedInterface: NO} ↑ Device unlocked. No policy 3. Comera NOT defuncted. Push delivered. Call rings normally. Our implementation PKPushRegistry is held strongly and re-registered on every applicationWillEnterForeground reportNewIncomingCall(with:update:completion:) is called synchronously within pushRegistry(_:didReceiveIncomingPushWith:) VoIP background mode entitlement is present App has com.apple.developer.pushkit.voip entitlement Questions Is there any entitlement or API to prevent NECP from defuncting a process holding an active PKPushRegistry? The VoIP push entitlement exists for exactly this background delivery scenario. Is pushDisallowed being applied to apps with VoIP push entitlements when InternetSharingActive == 1 intentional? Should VoIP entitlements exempt an app from the Internet Sharing Policy gate in dasd? Is there a documented way to know when apsd has fully completed APNs reconnection (i.e. channel-flow viable) so a server can time push retries more accurately within a call validity window? What is the recommended apns-expiration value for VoIP pushes to survive brief APNs reconnection windows without exceeding a 60-second call validity period? Full log stream captures available for all incidents.