Action Required: Apple Push Notification Service Server Certificate Update

Hi,

We received the following message.

Hello, We’re reaching out with a final reminder that the Certification Authority (CA) for Apple Push Notification service (APNs) is changing. APNs updated the server certificates in sandbox on January 21, 2025. APNs production server certificates will be updated on February 24, 2025. To continue using APNs without interruption, you’ll need to update your application’s Trust Store to include the new server certificate: SHA-2 Root: USERTrust RSA Certification Authority certificate.

Note, that we are using Firebase to deliver push notifications and the connection is done via APN keys, not certificates.

Is there anything that we need to update in the application to mitigate the risk of not delivered push notes ?

The certificate update only needs to be done on the actual servers connecting to APNs. In your case servers used by Firebase.

While presumably Firebase and other push service providers will be taking care of this, it is ultimately your responsibility to confirm this with your push provider to make sure your production pushes are not interrupted.


Argun Tekant /  DTS Engineer / Core Technologies

Hi, We need to update our server certificates and have the following questions:

  1. Parallel Certificates

Can we run both the old and new certificates in parallel for a certain transition period to ensure there’s no interruption in service? 2. Date and Time Zone The date mentioned (February 24, 2025) — is that based on U.S. time or another time zone? 3. Troubleshooting in Production We’ve tested successfully in the sandbox environment. If any issues arise in production, what steps should we take to troubleshoot them?

Action Required: Apple Push Notification Service Server Certificate Update
 
 
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