Silent push notification received when app is killed in iOS 13

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karthi K OP

Created Apr ’20

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Hi Apple Developer Team,

Silent push notification used to receive when app is running in eitherr foreground or background. But in iOS 13, the silent push notification is received even app is forcefully quit or terminated. The same is not observed with iOS 12 and 11. We have checked the payload, it has "content-available" defined as 1.

Is there any change in silent push notification for iOS 13?

Thanks in advance

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Answer 1

suryakant84 OP

Aug ’20

Facing exactly same behaviour. In iOS 13 and above silent push is received even app is forcefully quit but not in earlier version in iOS 12/11. In iOS 12/11 silent push only received when not terminated by user (background/foreground).
I had asked same question on stackoverflow as well.

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Answer 2

CounteRebornSG OP

Nov ’20

@karthi & @suryakant84, do you have any further findings on this topic? We are experiencing the same on our app too. In fact, we glad iOS 13 could actually wake the app upon receiving silent notification for performing minor updates. We are however doing extra work to handle cases depending on the user OS (iOS12/iOS13) which is not great for the project.

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Answer 3

anthonius OP

Dec ’20

I can't replicate this in iOS 13.3. App is not waking if I forcefully quit it. :(

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Answer 4

killjee OP

Jul ’22

The push is delivered to the application if you reopen the application after sending the push. Documentation is not clear about for how long the device waits for the app to reopen before flushing out the push. Have you tried checking if you receive silent pushes even after killing application and not reopening it.

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