Local and push notifications are great for keeping users informed with timely and relevant content, whether your app is running in the background or inactive. Notifications can display a message, play a distinctive sound, or update a badge on your app icon.
Presentations and Documentation
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What's New in iOS Notifications
Learn how to trigger notifications using geofences and beacons, and discover the new API's for registering for user notifications and remote pushes.
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Implementing Safari Push Notifications for Websites
Learn about website push notifications available in OS X Mavericks.
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Using Local and Push Notifications on iOS and OS X
Gain helpful tips from Apple engineers on adding local and push notifications in your iOS apps and Mac apps.
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Local and Push Notification Programming Guide
Get step-by-step instructions on implementing notifications in your apps.
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App Store Review Guidelines
Ensure that app notifications are implemented in accordance with our review guidelines.
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PushyMac (Sample Code)
See an example of code that utilizes push notifications on OS X.
FAQs and Help
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Troubleshooting Push Notifications
Find techniques to resolve issues with push notifications in iOS and OS X.
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Developer Forums (iOS)
Ask questions and discuss notifications with Apple engineers and other iOS developers.
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Developer Forums (Mac)
Ask questions and discuss notifications with Apple engineers and other Mac developers.
Tips and Best Practices
Make sure that your app doesn’t send unsolicited messages or spam to users. Improperly using push notifications may cause your app to be removed from the App Store.
Tips and Best Practices
Help users make the most of your app notifications by letting them choose the types of notifications they care about most.
Tips and Best Practices
To use the push notification service, you must first enable your App ID for push notifications and then create a Push SSL certificate to connect to the Apple Push Notification service.
Tips and Best Practices
Your app shouldn’t use excess network capacity or bandwidth of the APN service or overburden a device with push notifications.
Tips and Best Practices
Push notifications are free. Your app cannot charge customers for the use of push notifications.
Tips and Best Practices
When sending notifications, avoid opening and closing the connection with the APN service with each notification. Instead, keep your connection to the APN service open when sending messages.
Safari Push Notifications
Send notifications to your website users with Safari Push Notifications in OS X. Learn more