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# APS Environment Entitlement

The environment for push notifications.

## Discussion

This key specifies whether to use the development or production Apple Push Notification service (APNs) environment when registering for push notifications.

Xcode sets the value of the entitlement based on your app’s current provisioning profile. For example, if you’re using a development provisioning profile, Xcode sets the value to `development`. Production provisioning profile and <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppStoreConnectAPI/prerelease-versions-and-beta-testers> use `production`. These default settings can be modified. The `development` environment is also referred to as the `sandbox` environment.

Use this entitlement for both the UserNotifications and PushKit frameworks.

To add this entitlement to your app, enable the Push Notifications capability in Xcode.

## See Also

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/UserNotifications/registering-your-app-with-apns>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/PushKit>


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