iPhone14 Pro and UserNotification limits

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Created Sep ’22

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The iPhone 14 Pro has a A16 Bionic chip with 16 Billion transistors, two performance cores + 4 high-efficiency cores, a 5-core GPU and 16-core neural engine, and can perform 4 trillion OPS per photo. But sadly, we can only schedule up to 64 User Notifications on it (per app). This limitation has been there since iOS3 I believe, when UILocalNotifications were first introduced, along with the iPhone 3G.

What gives? Why does this limit never seem to change? I would love to understand the reasons. I am trying to build a 'timer' app, and can't understand how to build one with this limitation in place (unless I use Remote Push notifications, which requires a lot of infrastructure outside the app).

Btw, I filed a Radar for this 5 years ago, which was changed to this Feedback Request: FB5978935

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Gong OP

Sep ’22

UP VOTE!!!

It took me a long time to realize that there was a limit of 64 notifications. Users were complaining that the notifications they had set up in the app often failed. And the system doesn't seem to crop notifications in a specific order, which makes it harder to find bugs.

Btw, although the limit of 64 notifications can be found in the doc, there are no obvious notes on the API when you are coding... and no debug logs or warnings.

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