Hi
We are using silent push notifications in our app, these trigger our app to run code that syncs data with our server. This includes time sensitive data which the user will want to know about (which we send alerts generated on the device for). We know we are probably not using the notifications system as intended, we plan to rectify this soon using alert push notifications. To begin, we were willing to run the risk of sometimes having our code not be able to run in background, in exchange for less code complexity.
However we did not expect it to be this unreliable. The app is functionally never allowed to promptly run our sync code. We believe the likelihood of promptly being able to run code has also declined significantly in the last few months. It used to perform better.
There are of course many reasons that the app may be denied being able to run, battery, wifi / data, cpu. But when any of these are the reason these provide transparent rationale. The most common rationale we see is Rationale: [{[pushDisallowed]: Required:0.00, Observed:1.00},
TLDR
"pushDisallowed" is a very opaque rationale, we were hoping to have some insight as what makes up the "pushDisallowed" reasoning.
Presumably there are many factors that go into this, a rough list would be very helpful. We aren't necessarily seeking an answer for why our app is being denied, but why apps in general are denied with this rationale. We cannot find anything in the documentation outlining this.
Full example console message
default 16:16:12.710320+1200 dasd com.apple.pushLaunch.nz.co.appName.ios:7808B2:[
{name: ApplicationPolicy, policyWeight: 50.000, response: {Decision: Absolutely Must Not Proceed, Score: 0.00, Rationale: [{[pushDisallowed]: Required:0.00, Observed:1.00},]}}