Why push notifications is not working on testflight?

Question

I have tested push notifications as a developer account and it worked, But when i tried to put it on TestFlight for the testers to test it, it didn't show a push notification but the data is correctly received, So is there a kind of certificate that i need to generate for TestFlight?

Scilla

Use production certificate for TestFlight, because its a distribution build, and use ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 instead of sandbox URL to send the notification – Elsewhere

Answer 1

But when i tried to put it on TestFlight for the testers to test it, it didn't show a push notification but the data is correctly received.

That sentence is confusing. If you didn't get the push notification, what data is correctly received?

Anyway, if I recall correctly, for TestFlight you are using an AdHoc provisioning profile, which works with the production push environment. Therefore you'll need a production push certificate in order to push to devices that installed the app via TestFlight. In addition, don't forget that development device tokens are different than production device tokens, so make sure you are using the correct tokens.

Peduncle

i haven't seen anything about production device tokens in the docs - could you specify this a bit? – Lacroix

@PeterPiper If the token came from the sandbox environment, such as when you are testing a development build in house, you can't send it to the production push service. Each push environment will issue a different token for the same device or computer. If you do send a device token to the wrong environment, the push service will see that as an invalid token and discard the notification. taken from here. – Peduncle

Dear @Eran, do you have any tutorial to show how to create production certificate ? – Laue

Would that apply also for Notifications for the GameKit? – Ube

@tallis I don't know. – Peduncle

Answer 2

1. You need to use production certificate for testflight build.
2. Also need to remove sanbox (sandbox mode) from push notification url in push sending script.

Lorrimor

Testing:gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com Production:gateway.push.apple.com – Ageold

Ok... but then how can we control sending test notification only to our test clients if they use the same certificates? – Hamman

Answer 3

If you use Firebase, you have to add in:

• TestFlight:

  -(void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
      [[FIRInstanceID instanceID] setAPNSToken:deviceToken type:FIRInstanceIDAPNSTokenTypeSandbox]; 
  }
  

• Production:

  -(void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
      [[FIRInstanceID instanceID] setAPNSToken:deviceToken type:FIRInstanceIDAPNSTokenTypeProd]; 
  }
  

Purulence

This might be a very stupid question, but what happens if you do both? – Pulp

@GáborAngyal - Not clear what happens. Interesting is this sentence "If the token type is set to FIRInstanceIDAPNSTokenTypeUnknown InstanceID will read the provisioning profile to find out the token type." from Firebase API FIRInstanceID setAPNSToken:type:. Logically, that says everyone could simply do type: FIRInstanceIDAPNSTokenTypeUnknown, so that we don't have to remember to change this. Haven't tried this myself... – Vociferant

I tried using the FIRInstanceIDAPNSTokenTypeUnknown valuef or the type argument and can confirm that I was able to receive push notification on testflight builds – Eviscerate

with Firebase 4.0 new Swift syntax it is now Messaging.messaging().setAPNSToken(deviceToken, type: .unknown) – Maniemanifest

what is the file I need to add this function from answer? – Vouge

@Vouge - this is AppDelegate.m – Hamman

Answer 4

For TestFlight, use

1. Production certificate
2. "gateway.push.apple.com" at the server(back end job)

Palaeolithic

Where can I change this config of server? – Vouge

Hi Alexandre, I am not sure exactly where the backend developer declares the gateway coz Im not a backend developer. But I know that at some point we have to write it. – Palaeolithic

Answer 5

if you used GCM. In Development:-

_registrationOptions = @{kGGLInstanceIDRegisterAPNSOption:deviceToken,
                             kGGLInstanceIDAPNSServerTypeSandboxOption:@YES};

In Distribution:-

_registrationOptions = @{kGGLInstanceIDRegisterAPNSOption:deviceToken,
                             kGGLInstanceIDAPNSServerTypeSandboxOption:@NO};

Alexia

Answer 6

We need two certificates for sending notifications, one for development and one for production. In my case I'm using PushSharp solution to send notification .

This is for development:

var config = new ApnsConfiguration(ApnsConfiguration.ApnsServerEnvironment.Sandbox, "development.p12", "password");
var broker = new ApnsServiceBroker(config);

This is for Production:

var config = new ApnsConfiguration(ApnsConfiguration.ApnsServerEnvironment.Production, "production.p12", "password");
var broker = new ApnsServiceBroker(config);

Pizzicato

Answer 7

For someone uses Python apns (https://github.com/djacobs/PyAPNs):

When you create APNS object such apns = APNs(cert_file="cert.pem", key_file="key.pem"). You need to add one more parameter use_sandbox. It will be apns = APNs(use_sandbox=False, cert_file="cert.pem", key_file="key.pem").

Happy coding.

Pearliepearline

Answer 8

Please ensure that you have set FirebaseAppDelegateProxyEnabled to YES in info.plist file.

Cineaste

Answer 9

For Firebase try this:

#if DEBUG
    Messaging.messaging().setAPNSToken(apnsToken, type: .sandbox)
#else
    Messaging.messaging().setAPNSToken(apnsToken, type: .prod)
#endif

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