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.
The problem here is, while .criticalAlerts is meant to override the sound and focus settings on the device, denial of notifications being displayed in the first place will block the opportunity for a critical alert to override these settings.
Whether this would be considered a bug or omission, or by design is going to be up to the Notifications team to determine.
Best would be to have the Notifications engineering teams investigate this issue via a bug report.
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