没有 APNS 的推送通知

Question

I work perfectly with Push Notifications for iOS using APNS. So for some customers, I need an on-premise or local solution, where I could send notifications to the device without APNS and without dependence on the internet. Somebody knows? can you help me?

Answer 1

Not possible. You cannot get notification from APNS without internet.

What you can do to accomplish this is you send message from your server to the app while it is in background mode and generate local notification accordingly.

Answer 2

Let me clarify your question.

"Locally" means: you got either no internet connection, a local network without connection to APNS OR the users simply did not register for push notifications.

1. iBeacon with Local Push Notification

So, here is an alternative, and that's kind of NOT what it is basically used for, but as you may know. iBeacons can be used to transport small data chunks, very very small ones. If your users did enable location services, you could include these for your application to trigger certain events (in this case, a very small notification that users came into range of a point of interest). Downside: The application bundle requires either a static "notification text" to beacon mapping or you have to dynamically download the mapping from a web source, so you could update the notification's text.

2. Bluetooth with Local Push Notification

Another alternative would be to use bluetooth instead. Devices could auto connect to your Bluetooth Station "Peripheral" - These devices now (with the help of your app) would register to a broadcasting characteristic of your Peripheral. The peripheral could send messages to the registered devices. If now the device does receive such a broadcasted message, you could perform a local push. - Without any network connection, just with the help of bluetooth, which itself also requires user permissions, of course.

3. Internet Connection / Silent Push with Local Push Notification

If your application of course had a working internet connection, you could avoid the APNS from Apple and send your own notifications to the device as silent push notifications.

Answer 3

APNS works only with internet. If you need to push a message to the user without internet one solution ( probably only solution currently ) is using SMS api. But that requires user mobile number. Using URL Schema the user can open your app from the SMS message.

Answer 4

As of iOS 14 this is available through Local Push Connectivity , but you will require the App Push Provider entitlement that you must apply for specifying why you are unable to use APNS.

Apple sample code is available here .