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.

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.

My app produces local notification but unfortunately they only play a sound but do not produce an alert. Of course I requested authorization with: let center = UNUserNotificationCenter.current() center.requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .sound]) {(granted, error) in // Enable or disable features based on authorization. } And scheduled the notification with: func localNotification(_ title:String, message:String, sound:UNNotificationSound?, badge:Int?, interval:TimeInterval, userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]?, category:UNNotificationCategory?=nil){ let content = UNMutableNotificationContent() content.title = NSString.localizedUserNotificationString(forKey: title, arguments: nil) content.body = NSString.localizedUserNotificationString(forKey: message, arguments: nil) content.sound=sound let ti = NSInteger(interval) let seconds = ti % 60 let minutes = (ti / 60) % 60 let hours = (ti / 3600) //let ms = Int((interval.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1)) * 1000) var dateInfo = DateComponents() dateInfo.hour=hours dateInfo.minute=minutes dateInfo.second=seconds let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: dateInfo, repeats: false) let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: "EndOfMeditation", content: content, trigger: trigger) let center = UNUserNotificationCenter.current() center.delegate = self center.add(request) { (error : Error?) in if let theError = error { print(theError.localizedDescription) } } } and have no queue about to know better.

I used the following class to post local notifications: class LocalNotification: NSObject, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate{ func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification) async -> UNNotificationPresentationOptions{ print("torna notification") return [.sound, .badge, .banner] } func localNotification(_ title:String, message:String, sound:UNNotificationSound?, badge:Int?, interval:TimeInterval, userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]?, category:UNNotificationCategory?=nil){ let content = UNMutableNotificationContent() content.title = NSString.localizedUserNotificationString(forKey: title, arguments: nil) content.body = NSString.localizedUserNotificationString(forKey: message, arguments: nil) content.sound=sound let ti = interval * 60 let seconds = ti.second let minutes = ti.minute let hours = ti.hour //let ms = Int((interval.truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1)) * 1000) var dateInfo = DateComponents() dateInfo.hour=hours dateInfo.minute=minutes dateInfo.second=seconds let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: dateInfo, repeats: false) let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: message, content: content, trigger: trigger) let center = UNUserNotificationCenter.current() center.delegate = self center.add(request) { (error : Error?) in if let theError = error { print(theError.localizedDescription) } } } } But still function: UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate{ func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification) async is never called and more importantly no notification is delivered, either sound or banner.

Two months ago we got approval for using the Notification Filtering entitlement. We rushed out to implement it in our app, only to find out that the permission was set for the wrong bundle identifier. We expected to get the permission for the notification extension's bundle identifier, yet it is added for the main app's bundle identifier. Per the official docs, the entitlement permission should be in the notification service extension target: After you receive permission to use the entitlement, add com.apple.developer.usernotifications.filtering to the entitlements file in the Notification Service Extension target. However, this fails to get signed when compiling for non-simulator targets because of the bundle mismatch issue. Simulator perfectly filters notifications. Adding the entitlement to the main app does compile, but filtering does not work (as expected). We reached out to Apple twice (Case-ID: 14330583) but we have yet to receive any response. Could there be something else wrong instead of the identifier mismatch?

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.

1. Does the "important" description for silent notification in the documentation still valid? (Pushing background updates to your App) The system treats background notifications as low priority: you can use them to refresh your app’s content, but the system doesn’t guarantee their delivery. In addition, the system may throttle the delivery of background notifications if the total number becomes excessive. The number of background notifications allowed by the system depends on current conditions, but don’t try to send more than two or three per hour. I would like to implement notification that would wake up my application in all state to perform AVSpeechSynthesizer, but I am confused with the availability of the silent notification. I attempted to send silent notification to my ipad to see the exact behaviour, but it seems like it has not been throttle even after a few tens attempts within the same hour. { "aps": { "content-available": 1, "alert": { "title": "Title", "body": "Content"}, "sound": "default" } } 2. I am also confused if mixing the "content-available" key pair with "alert" in the aps payload will make the Heads-up Notification been throttle as well?

I’m experiencing an issue with Apple Developer Support communication. On the page Apple Developer Support Cases I can see updates and messages indicating that Apple Support specialists supposedly replied to my case. However, I never receive those emails in my inbox. The only emails that actually arrive to my Gmail account are automatic messages with the subject: “Thanks for submitting your support request” I checked: Spam folder Promotions/Social tabs Gmail filters Blocked addresses But there are still no replies from support specialists. Because of this, I cannot continue communication with support. Has anyone experienced the same issue? Is there a specific Apple domain/email address that should be whitelisted? Apple Support team, please contact me directly.

We are working on a feature that uses geo-based local notifications to target users when they arrive at an airport. Our implementation uses UNLocationNotificationTrigger with CLCircularRegion. The local notification is scheduled after the user has granted notification permission and location permission. We are currently using “While Using the App” location permission and with enabled location updates in capabilities We have used CLMonitor as well for the same. However, we are seeing inconsistent accuracy and missed triggers, even after testing with users who have granted the required permissions. we did use CLMonitor as well but we are getting the trigger on the entry of specified region. Could you please help us understand the constraints and expected behavior for location-based notification triggers on iOS? Specifically, we would like guidance on the following: What parameters influence UNLocationNotificationTrigger accuracy and reliability? What is the recommended minimum radius for geofencing around large areas such as airports? Does “While Using the App” permission have any practical limitations for location-based local notification delivery? Are there system-level conditions that may prevent or delay the trigger, such as Precise Location being off, Low Power Mode, Focus mode, Background App Refresh, airplane mode, or poor GPS/network availability or any others? Are there recommended best practices for improving reliability for an airport-arrival use case?

I'm seeing a timestamp display issue on Apple Watch Notification Center, and I'd like to confirm whether this is a known watchOS behavior or whether there's a setup mistake on our side. Symptom The same APNs notification displays the correct time on iPhone Notification Center and on the initial Apple Watch banner. After the Watch screen turns off and the user later opens Notification Center on Apple Watch, the same notification may show an incorrect relative timestamp such as "3 hours ago" or even "yesterday". The drift is per-notification and persists for that notification until it's dismissed. iPhone NC always shows the correct time. WhatsApp tested side-by-side on the same iPhone/Watch pair does not show this drift. Setup iOS 26.4.2 on iPhone 16 Pro watchOS 26.4 on Apple Watch Series 10 App with paired Apple Watch A UNNotificationServiceExtension that decrypts E2EE message previews and applies Communication Notification enrichment via INSendMessageIntent and content.updating(from:) Production APNs environment, TestFlight builds No beta software Isolation tests already performed Test mutable-content NSE invoked Drift on Watch NC Minimal APNs (alert + sound only) no no no drift NSE skips content.updating(from:), INInteraction.donate/delete (still calls them as no-op via diagnostic build) yes yes — modifies content drift NSE bypasses ALL Intents/Communication Notification APIs (no INPerson, no INSendMessageIntent, no avatar, no updating(from:)); just modifies title/body/sound/category and returns the mutable copy yes yes — modifies content drift Production-like APNs payload (thread-id, target-content-id, category, sound, badge, custom userInfo) but WITHOUT mutable-content no no no drift Eliminated as causes: content.updating(from:), INSendMessageIntent, INInteraction.donate, INInteraction.delete(with:), INPerson/INPersonHandle (not even constructed in test 3), avatar fetching, thread-id, target-content-id, category, sound, badge, custom userInfo, custom createdAt timestamp, stale Siri/Apple Intelligence history (cleared manually on iPhone and Watch). The pattern The only consistent variable distinguishing the no-drift cases from the drift cases is whether mutable-content: 1 is set on the APNs payload (i.e. whether the UNNotificationServiceExtension is invoked). Once invoked, the extension's behavior with respect to Communication Notifications does not seem to affect the outcome — the drift reproduces even when the NSE only modifies title/body/sound and returns. Questions Is there a known watchOS behavior where notifications processed by a UNNotificationServiceExtension use a different timestamp source on Apple Watch Notification Center after the Watch screen has been turned off and reopened, while the initial Watch banner and iPhone Notification Center show the correct delivery time? Are there specific UNMutableNotificationContent properties or APNs payload flags that should be preserved (or avoided) when returning content from an NSE to keep the Watch NC timestamp consistent with the delivery time? For E2EE messaging apps, is there a recommended pattern to decrypt and return content from an NSE that avoids this drift on watchOS? Happy to provide an anonymized snippet of NotificationService.swift and the APNs payload format if useful. Thanks.

I am running into an issue where if a user has denied normal notifications but allowed Critical Alerts, they do not receive the Critical Alert. Apple documentation specifies that Critical Alerts will override device Silent and Do Not Disturb settings, but it does not clearly state if it does or does not override the Allow Notifications setting for that particular app. Is this intended behavior? Seems like a bug, as a user could definitely want to filter out notifications that are not critical.

We have an iPhone app with a companion watchOS app for factory alert monitoring. What we want to achieve is: each server event is an independent event, not just a latest-state update events should not be dropped in some scenarios, new events may arrive as frequently as once per minute the watch app state/UI should reflect the event almost in real time our target is roughly within 5 seconds the watch app is expected to be opened by the user when they want to confirm details, but we want the data to already be there even if the watch app was previously in the background notification mirroring is already sufficient for immediate user awareness; the question is about reliable background data/state delivery to the watch app Our current architecture is: The server sends APNs pushes to the iPhone app. We use both: alert pushes for user-visible notifications background pushes (content-available: 1, apns-push-type: background, apns-priority: 5) for background data delivery When the iPhone app receives the push, it relays data to the watch using WatchConnectivity. On the iPhone/watch side: we use sendMessage when reachable / foreground-like communication is possible we use transferUserInfo as the background / unreachable fallback The devices are paired and connected, and the apps are not force-quit. In practice, the behavior is not stable enough for this requirement: some background deliveries are delayed some relays to the watch are not timely the end-to-end behavior is not reliable enough for independent event delivery with near-real-time expectations My understanding is that: APNs background pushes are not guaranteed and may be throttled WatchConnectivity background delivery is opportunistic immediate WC messaging depends on reachability / active state So the main question is not how to debug a single implementation issue, but whether our expectation is valid at all on Apple platforms. Questions: Is this architecture fundamentally unsuitable if the requirement is lossless, near-real-time event delivery from server -> iPhone -> watch, with a target of roughly within 5 seconds? Even if the implementation is correct, should we expect iPhone background push + WatchConnectivity relay to remain inherently non-deterministic for this kind of requirement, especially in scenarios where events may occur approximately once per minute? If notification mirroring is used only for user awareness, but the watch app still needs reliable background state/data delivery before the user opens it, is there any Apple-supported architecture for that? Would direct delivery to the watch app be the only realistic direction, or is this level of reliability/latency simply not a supported expectation for general-purpose apps? We understand that background execution and delivery are managed opportunistically by the system. What I want to confirm is whether this requirement itself is outside the practical/supported envelope of APNs background push + WatchConnectivity relay.

I am working on a large-scale e-commerce application and we are trying to solve a specific issue regarding push notifications and user experience. We have a use case where we need to send a standard push notification to the user, but under certain local conditions on the device, we want to intercept that notification via a Notification Service Extension and suppress/drop it so it does not alert the user. We understand that the com.apple.developer.usernotifications.filtering entitlement allows a Notification Service Extension to drop notifications. However, looking at the entitlement request form, the categories seem strictly limited to: End-to-end encrypted messaging Earthquake warnings Education/learning platforms Enterprise healthcare apps My questions for the community and Apple staff: Is it possible for an e-commerce or retail app to be approved for this entitlement if we have a highly specific, valid use case that improves user experience. If this entitlement is strictly off-limits for our domain, what is the Apple-recommended architecture to achieve this? Thank you in advance for any insights or guidance!

Environment Xcode 26.5 beta iOS 26.5 beta Using AccessorySetupKit + AccessoryTransportExtension framework Three extensions: AccessoryTransportAppExtension, AccessoryTransportSecurityExtension, AccessoryDataProviderExtension Background Everything worked correctly on iOS 26.4 beta. All three extensions shared the entitlement com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-extension, and the system launched them as expected. After upgrading to iOS 26.5 beta (both Xcode and device), the app compiles and runs, the accessory pairs and connects successfully (state = authorized, BLE connected, notification forwarding = allow), but none of the extensions are launched by the system. Investigation Captured system Console logs from the device and found these errors from deviceaccessd: error deviceaccessd ### Extension 'com.huami.NotificationForwardingDemo.AccessoryDataProviderExtension' is missing entitlement: com.apple.developer.accessory-data-provider for com.apple.accessory-data-provider error deviceaccessd ### Extension 'com.huami.NotificationForwardingDemo.AccessoryTransportSecurityExtension' is missing entitlement: com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-security for com.apple.accessory-transport-security It appears that iOS 26.5 now requires per-extension-type entitlements instead of the shared one. On iOS 26.4, all three extensions used com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-extension and it worked. On iOS 26.5, deviceaccessd now expects com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-security for the security extension and com.apple.developer.accessory-data-provider for the data provider extension. The transport app extension did not report an error, so it may still accept the old entitlement. Attempted Fix Changed the entitlement keys in the .entitlements files to match what deviceaccessd expects. Xcode fails to build with: ▎ Entitlement com.apple.developer.accessory-data-provider not found and could not be included in profile. This likely is not a valid entitlement and should be removed from your entitlements file. Root Cause Checked Apple Developer Portal — only one capability is available: "Accessory Transport Extension", which maps to com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-extension. There are no separate capability options for the new entitlements. The iOS 26.5 beta system requires new per-extension-type entitlements, but the provisioning system does not yet support them. This makes it impossible to build a working AccessoryTransport app on iOS 26.5 beta. Request Please either add the new entitlement capabilities (com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-security, com.apple.developer.accessory-data-provider) to the Apple Developer Portal, or restore backward compatibility with com.apple.developer.accessory-transport-extension in deviceaccessd.

Since upgrading to Xcode 26 beta 4 and using the iOS 26 simulator for testing our app, we've stopped being able to receive device tokens for the simulator from the development APNS environment. The APNS environment is able to return meta device information (e.g. model, type, manufacturer) but there are no device tokens present. When running the same app using the iOS 18.5 simulator, we are able to register the device with the same APNS environment and receive a valid device token.

In my Notification Service Extension I'm doing two things in parallel inside didReceive(_:withContentHandler:): Downloading and attaching a rich media image (the standard content modification work) Firing a separate analytics POST request (fire-and-forget I don't wait for its response) Once the image is ready, I call contentHandler(modifiedContent). The notification renders correctly. What I've observed (via Proxyman) is that the analytics POST request completes successfully after contentHandler has already been called. My question: Why does this network request complete? Is it because: (a) The extension process is guaranteed to stay alive for the full 30-second budget, even after contentHandler is called so my URLSession task continues executing during the remaining time? (b) The extension process loses CPU time after contentHandler but remains in memory for process reuse and the request completes at the socket/OS level without my completion handler ever firing? (c) Something else entirely? I'd like to understand the documented behaviour so I can decide whether it's safe to rely on fire-and-forget network requests completing after contentHandler, or whether I need to ensure the request finishes before calling contentHandler.