is it possible to send push notification with video/audio IOS?

Question

I am working on an application which uses apple push-notification. I implemented this feature and working fine, now client is asking about sending push-notification with Audio/video file.

Can you please tell me whether apple allows this type of notifications, if YES any suggestion to implement.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well yes and no is the answer. You can't really include the audio/video in the push notification.

What you could do is, in the payload of the push notification, add an URL to an audio/video file. Once your user select to view the push notification you can pick up the URL and load the audio/video.

Answer 2

push notification is simply a message, and it has a very limited length (256 characters, including service, or more ). It can add a number on the icon, or play sound by it name (sound should be in the folder of application) and actually show a message. You can pass additional data - number, link or resourceId, but the resources need to pass in other ways

Answer 3

I was searching for this and found this thread. I would like to update it by saying that with iOs 10+ now images, video and audio are now supported with little limitations which are:

Devices WITH force touch support video, images and audio.

Devices WITHOUT force touch only support images. (not sure if audio is supported too, but videos definitely are not supported)

take a look at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unnotificationattachment