Dear Apple support team,
I have some questions for you about this topic: I'm designing an app that need to send a notification like a classic clock alarm timer to the user, let's say each and every 25 minutes of cellphone usage, ofc only if the device is being used. The thing is that when my app is put to background, then Apple will shut it down after 30-60secs. I was thinking to send a silent push notification to my app just so I can wake it up for an instant just so it can shoot a local notification, and then keep in the background totally inactive. That means I'll have to send to my app around 3 silent push notifications x hour. Do you think it is a problem for you? or it's ok to do that? Let me know your experience on this matters,
Thanks a lot for your time, A.
Sending silent notifications for this is not going to work. Those are heavily throttled, and at best you can expect 1 or 2 to reach your app every hour, and it is totally possible that you receive none.
If you need to execute code and dynamically change the contents of the notification based on device based data, you may want to look at Modifying content in newly delivered notifications, but those notifications need to be visible.
