What does UNAuthorizationStatus.provisional mean for Push Notifications?

Check out the "What's New in User Notifications" session from WWDC 2018. To quote the transcript from that session:

> Right now, when a user installs your app, before they start receiving notifications, at some point they'll have to respond to a prompt that looks like this, which is asking them if they want these notifications.

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> And the biggest problem with this is, at this point, the user doesn't know what kind of notifications this app is going to send, so they don't know if they want them or not.

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> So, in iOS 12, we're introducing provisional authorization, and this is an automatic trial of the notifications from your app. This will help your users make a more informed decision on whether they want these notifications or not. So you can opt into this, and if you do, your users will not get that authorization prompt that we just saw.

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> Instead, the notifications from your app will automatically start getting delivered.

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> But these notifications will be delivered quietly, and if we recall, notifications that are delivered quietly only show up in notifications center, and they don't play a sound.

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> Notifications that are delivered with provisional authorization will have a prompt like this on the notification itself. And this will help the users decide after having received a few notifications whether they want to keep getting these notifications or whether they want to turn them off. And this turn off confirmation sheet will also have the custom settings link if you have provided it. Let's see how you can do this in code. In the location where you regularly request authorization, in addition to whatever options you might be requesting, you can add a dot qualifying option called .provisional. And if you include this, you will automatically start participating in the trial. It's really important to note that the .provisional option is in addition to whatever other options you may be providing. That's because if the users decide to keep getting your notifications delivered, we want to know how you want them delivered, with badges or sounds or as alerts. So that's what provisional authorization is. It's an automatic trial of the notifications from your app to help your users make a more informed decision about whether they want these notifications.

Hope that helps!

That helped a lot, thanks!

I can now answer my own question:

Yes, if your app has requested the new provisional autzorization option (Automatic trial without an authorization prompt) with

notificationCenter.requestAuthorization(
     options:[.badge, .sound, .alert, .provisional]) {
}