APNS .p12 support timelines by Apple ?

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Created Apr ’21

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Hi All,

We wanted to understand how long .p12 will be support for APNS by Apple?
We have heard that some of the platforms are already removing support for .p12 Certificates and instead will use.p8 Auth Keys.

Can someone confirm how true this is?

Thanks.

Answered by Engineer in 671577022

This is not true at all. What is being removed is the legacy binary interface, and has nothing to do with how you authenticate yourself to APNs.

You must be using the new HTTP/2 interface now, and you can use either the certificate based (.p12), or the authentication token based (tokens created based on .p8 keys) authentication methods.

If you have not switched to using HTTP/2, that deadline has passed, and your ability to send pushes using the legacy interface will be impacted heavily.

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Engineer OP

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Apr ’21

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This is not true at all. What is being removed is the legacy binary interface, and has nothing to do with how you authenticate yourself to APNs.

You must be using the new HTTP/2 interface now, and you can use either the certificate based (.p12), or the authentication token based (tokens created based on .p8 keys) authentication methods.

If you have not switched to using HTTP/2, that deadline has passed, and your ability to send pushes using the legacy interface will be impacted heavily.

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