Once your client app is installed on a device, it can receive messages through the FCM APNs interface. You can immediately start sending notifications to user segments with the Notifications composer, or messages built on your application server.
Handle alert notifications
FCM delivers all messages targeting Apple apps through APNs. To learn more about receiving APNs notifications via UNUserNotificationCenter, see Apple's documentation on Handling Notifications and Notification-Related Actions.
You must set the UNUserNotificationCenter delegate and implement the appropriate delegate methods to receive display notifications from FCM.
Swift
extension AppDelegate: UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate {
// Receive displayed notifications for iOS 10 devices.
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
willPresent notification: UNNotification) async
-> UNNotificationPresentationOptions {
let userInfo = notification.request.content.userInfo
// With swizzling disabled you must let Messaging know about the message, for Analytics
// Messaging.messaging().appDidReceiveMessage(userInfo)
// ...
// Print full message.
print(userInfo)
// Change this to your preferred presentation option
return [[.alert, .sound]]
}
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse) async {
let userInfo = response.notification.request.content.userInfo
// ...
// With swizzling disabled you must let Messaging know about the message, for Analytics
// Messaging.messaging().appDidReceiveMessage(userInfo)
// Print full message.
print(userInfo)
}
}
Objective-C
// Receive displayed notifications for iOS 10 devices.
// Handle incoming notification messages while app is in the foreground.
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center
willPresentNotification:(UNNotification *)notification
withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions))completionHandler {
NSDictionary *userInfo = notification.request.content.userInfo;
// With swizzling disabled you must let Messaging know about the message, for Analytics
// [[FIRMessaging messaging] appDidReceiveMessage:userInfo];
// ...
// Print full message.
NSLog(@"%@", userInfo);
// Change this to your preferred presentation option
completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionBadge | UNNotificationPresentationOptionAlert);
}
// Handle notification messages after display notification is tapped by the user.
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center
didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response
withCompletionHandler:(void(^)(void))completionHandler {
NSDictionary *userInfo = response.notification.request.content.userInfo;
if (userInfo[kGCMMessageIDKey]) {
NSLog(@"Message ID: %@", userInfo[kGCMMessageIDKey]);
}
// With swizzling disabled you must let Messaging know about the message, for Analytics
// [[FIRMessaging messaging] appDidReceiveMessage:userInfo];
// Print full message.
NSLog(@"%@", userInfo);
completionHandler();
}
If you want to add custom actions to your notifications, set the
click_action parameter in the
notification payload.
Use the value that you would use for the
category key in the APNs payload. Custom actions must be registered before
they can be used. For more information, see Apple's
Local and Remote Notification Programming Guide.
For insight into message delivery to your app, see the FCM reporting dashboard, which records the number of messages sent and opened on Apple and Android devices, along with data for "impressions" (notifications seen by users) for Android apps.
Handle silent push notifications
When sending messages with the content_available key (equivalent to APNs's
content-available, the messages will be delivered as silent notifications,
waking your app in the background for tasks like background data refresh.
Unlike foreground notifications, these notifications must be handled via the
application(_:didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler:)
method.
Implement application(_:didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler:)
as shown:
Swift
func application(_ application: UIApplication,
didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [AnyHashable: Any]) async
-> UIBackgroundFetchResult {
// If you are receiving a notification message while your app is in the background,
// this callback will not be fired till the user taps on the notification launching the application.
// TODO: Handle data of notification
// With swizzling disabled you must let Messaging know about the message, for Analytics
// Messaging.messaging().appDidReceiveMessage(userInfo)
// Print message ID.
if let messageID = userInfo[gcmMessageIDKey] {
print("Message ID: \(messageID)")
}
// Print full message.
print(userInfo)
return UIBackgroundFetchResult.newData
}
Objective-C
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
fetchCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UIBackgroundFetchResult))completionHandler {
// If you are receiving a notification message while your app is in the background,
// this callback will not be fired till the user taps on the notification launching the application.
// TODO: Handle data of notification
// With swizzling disabled you must let Messaging know about the message, for Analytics
// [[FIRMessaging messaging] appDidReceiveMessage:userInfo];
// ...
// Print full message.
NSLog(@"%@", userInfo);
completionHandler(UIBackgroundFetchResultNewData);
}
Apple platforms do not guarantee the delivery of background notifications. To learn about conditions that can cause background notifications to fail, see Apple's docs on Pushing Background Updates to Your App.
Interpreting notification message payload
The payload of notification messages is a dictionary of keys and values. Notification messages sent through APNs follow the APNs payload format as below:
{
"aps" : {
"alert" : {
"body" : "great match!",
"title" : "Portugal vs. Denmark",
},
"badge" : 1,
},
"customKey" : "customValue"
}
Handle messages with method swizzling disabled
By default, if you assign your app's app delegate class to the
UNUserNotificationCenter and Messaging delegate properties, FCM
will swizzle your app delegate class to automatically associate your
FCM token with the device's APNs token and pass notification-received
events to Analytics. If you explicitly disable method swizzling, if you are
building a SwiftUI app, or if you use a separate class for either delegate, you
will need to perform both of these tasks manually.
To associate the FCM token with the device APNs token, pass the APNs
token to the Messaging class in your app delegate's
token refresh handler
via the
apnsToken property.
Swift
func application(_ application: UIApplication,
didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data) {
Messaging.messaging().apnsToken = deviceToken;
}
Objective-C
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application
didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
[FIRMessaging messaging].APNSToken = deviceToken;
}
To pass notification reciept information to Analytics, use the
appDidReceiveMessage(_:) method.
Swift
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
willPresent notification: UNNotification,
withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
let userInfo = notification.request.content.userInfo
Messaging.messaging().appDidReceiveMessage(userInfo)
// Change this to your preferred presentation option
completionHandler([[.alert, .sound]])
}
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse,
withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
let userInfo = response.notification.request.content.userInfo
Messaging.messaging().appDidReceiveMessage(userInfo)
completionHandler()
}
func application(_ application: UIApplication,
didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any],
fetchCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UIBackgroundFetchResult) -> Void) {
Messaging.messaging().appDidReceiveMessage(userInfo)
completionHandler(.noData)
}
Objective-C
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center
willPresentNotification:(UNNotification *)notification
withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions))completionHandler {
NSDictionary *userInfo = notification.request.content.userInfo;
[[FIRMessaging messaging] appDidReceiveMessage:userInfo];
// Change this to your preferred presentation option
completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionBadge | UNNotificationPresentationOptionAlert);
}
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center
didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response
withCompletionHandler:(void(^)(void))completionHandler {
NSDictionary *userInfo = response.notification.request.content.userInfo;
[[FIRMessaging messaging] appDidReceiveMessage:userInfo];
completionHandler();
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application
didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
fetchCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UIBackgroundFetchResult result))completionHandler {
[[FIRMessaging messaging] appDidReceiveMessage:userInfo];
completionHandler(UIBackgroundFetchResultNoData);
}