The iPhone and iPad use iOS to do many things, and do them well. There is one thing that iOS doesn't currently do well, though, and that is push alerts. This short guide will show you how to take ...

Using the badge number on your app icon for iOS is a great way to let the user know that there is something new to interact with in your app. Here’s a quick way to achieve this without using ...

Web apps will also have icon badges in iOS 16.1, like native apps. These are numbers encircled in red on the right corner of an app icon that denotes when the app has an unresolved notification.

It took some time for push notifications to arrive on the iOS platform; they didn’t become a feature until the June 2009 release of what was then called iPhone 3.0. And it’s fair to say that ...

As noted by Firtman, iOS 15.4 beta adds new “Built-in Web Notifications” and “Push API” toggles to the WebKit Experimental Features within the Safari settings.

Apple simply doesn’t allow push notifications to iOS devices. Edited to add: It’s been a completely solved problem for about 5 years now. Apple added it to Safari on the Mac even longer ago, back in ...

Access to the Apple push notification service was previously only available to App Store apps. ... The design of fallback web app shortcut icons is also changing starting with iOS 16.4.

That may change in a big way in iOS 15.4. According to Maximiliano Firtman on his blog firt.dev , Apple has laid the groundwork to finally allow Safari push notifications in iOS and iPadOS.

Web Push, a multi-standard notification service for time-sensitive and high-priority events will be available for Safari 16 on macOS Ventura in October.