Is the iOS Local Notification Limit Per Day?

Question

I'm working on an app where I need to send a good amount of notifications to the user daily. Around 5-40 depending on the user.

I'm using local notifications to send it, but I know there is a 64 notification limit. Does this mean 64 notifications per day, or in total?

Felid

Are you using UILocalNotification, or the UserNotifications framework? You should prefer the latter (though it doesn't change the limit). – Lefler

I am using UILocalNotification. It is deprecated now though. Should I change it? – Felid

If you're just starting implementation, yes, absolutely, unless you plan to support iOS 9. – Lefler

Just updated my post with the code that I am using. How do you suggest I update this to the UserNotifications. Not really planning on supporting iOS 9. Thanks! – Felid

The conversion to UNNotificationRequest instead of UILocalNotification is straightforward. Look at UNMutableNotificatonContent. But please don't ask more than one thing in a question. – Lefler

Answer 1

It means simultaneously scheduled for future delivery. You can send as many as you want per day, provided they don't overlap.

If you add more than 64 requests (under UserNotifications) or scheduled (under UIApplication/UILocalNotification), the older ones will be dropped and not delivered.

Lefler

I am currently scheduling the notifications to repeat every day, wouldn't this imply infinite scheduled notifications? So would it not deliver them? – Felid

It only depends on how many are on the scheduled list at any given time. – Lefler

@JoshCaswell is this documented somewhere? – Tonsillectomy

The count won't be different for different iOS versions? @Lefler – Lock

Answer 2

Unfortunately iOS limits the local schedule notification up to 64. May be to prevent this issue can schedule first group of notification initially and then schedule another group when launch the app next time.

Farquhar

Is this documented anywhere in apple docs? – Didymous

Source would be appreciated – Jigging

Follow this apple documentation developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uilocalnotification – Farquhar