iOS 16 web push notifications בשנת 2023

[dfabulich (Dan Fabulich)]

Aha! I think I figured out at least one bug with this, filed in a separate thread.

iOS notifications can lose permission to push if the user is currently active

iOS notifications can lose permission to push if the notification is suppressed. Discourse’s code is configured to optionally suppress notifications, and will thereby lose permission to push when this happens three times. Here’s the code for the push-notification service worker. This code has a critical bug in it, at line 178. There, the service worker checks to see if the user is active (i.e. not idle). In that case, the push event returns false without showing a notification. (It also che…