We are a volunteer-led community organisation with a small Discourse forum, and the majority of our members use iPhones. It pains to me to watch a once-amazing community die off as our members disappear into WhatsApp groups. There is one sole reason for this: the lack of iOS push notifications. P…

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That’s very handy, thank you Richard! Although we’re actually a customer of yours at the moment so I feel a bit guilty about the source of this advice! I do hope one day that push notifications become available for everyone, without waiting for Apple.

Seems you do not have to wait too long for apple anymore [image] iOS Mobile App Notifications Push notifications coming to web apps with iOS 15.4 - 9to5Mac Good news for notifications on self-hosted :grinning:

Now that would be amazing. Fingers crossed!

Have you taken a look at OneSignal yet? [image] Whitelisted Discourse app with Push Notifications via OneSignal plugin Following up on the discussion here , I have successfully set up a fork of the official Discourse app that can send push notifications via the OneSignal AP…

That works, but note that it requires you to develop your own custom iOS app.

Ah, good point. I was going to recommend Lexicon too, but that also isn’t entirely straightforward. [image] Lexicon: a customizable native mobile app for your Discourse site extras Hey everyone, I wanted to quickly drop in here and mention that I’ve just open-sourced a p…

[image] Decorbuz: Then again, haven’t iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 been released to the public for a couple of days now? Yes, but this functionality is far from finished, it’s only a hint at what might be coming. while the toggle is visible, the API itself is not yet enabled, and Apple has yet …

[image] RGJ: it’s only a hint at what might be coming. That’s true. Maybe we’ll see it featured in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16? One can only hope… :crossed_fingers:

[image] iOS 16 web push notifications in 2023 feature For those of us who have been waiting, primarily so our Discourse instances work better on iOS, it seems the day is near, as Apple officially announced today support for web push notifications in iOS 16, coming in 2023.…

iOS push badly needed, but Discourse.org hosting is too expensive

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Moin March 17, 2022, 10:58am 4

Seems you do not have to wait too long for apple anymore

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