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Xcode 6 - Remote Notifications in iOS8

My application uses QuickBlox to allow users to chat and receive push notifications. It works great in iOS7 and lower, but in iOS8, I am getting an error that remoteNotifications are not allowed.

iOS8 users are not shown the pop-up to ask them to approve push notifications anymore either.

Here is my pList

<key>UIBackgroundModes</key>
    <array>
        <string>remote-notification</string>
    </array>

And here is the relavant code in my .m file

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert | UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound];

Any advice?

Solution

  • Support only iOS8 Notifications:

    UIUserNotificationSettings* notificationSettings = [UIUserNotificationSettings settingsForTypes:UIUserNotificationTypeAlert | UIUserNotificationTypeBadge | UIUserNotificationTypeSound categories:nil];  
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:notificationSettings];  
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];

    Support both iOS7 and iOS8 Notifications:

    if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] respondsToSelector:@selector(registerUserNotificationSettings:)]) {
    UIUserNotificationSettings* notificationSettings = [UIUserNotificationSettings settingsForTypes:UIUserNotificationTypeAlert | UIUserNotificationTypeBadge | UIUserNotificationTypeSound categories:nil];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:notificationSettings];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];
} else {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes: (UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound | UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert)];
}

    Replace your existing registerForRemoteNotificationTypes line with the above code.

    Source: Push Notifications in iOS 7 & 8