Solved my issue. didReceiveRemoteNotification was firing but didReceiveNotificationResponse of UserNotificationCenter delegate was never firing when tapping the notification. Note that it WAS firing for a local notification created by the app, but NOT a remote push notification.

I’ve just spent several days trying everything I can think of to figure out how to detect when that remote notification was tapped and get the payload. In the end what fixed it was changing this in AppDelegate.m:

UNUserNotificationCenter *center = [UNUserNotificationCenter currentNotificationCenter];
center.delegate = self; 

To:

UNUserNotificationCenter *center = [UNUserNotificationCenter currentNotificationCenter];
  
[center requestAuthorizationWithOptions:(UNAuthorizationOptionAlert + UNAuthorizationOptionSound + UNAuthorizationOptionBadge)completionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError * _Nullable error) {
         if (granted) {
            center.delegate = self; 
          }
 }];

Basically setting center.delegate after requestAuthorizationWithOptions then changed the behaviour.

Now, didReceiveNotificationResponse fires when the remote notification is tapped. Somewhat counter intuitively it is treated as a localNotification (but I guess that makes sense) so I handle it in:

PushNotificationIOS.addEventListener('localNotification' ...

Note that for didReceiveRemoteNotification to also fire, content-available: 1 must be set in the payload. Either way didReceiveNotificationResponse was not firing until making the above change.

Hope this helps someone. I had been pulling my hair out for about 4 days!

Thanks @dominiczaq

But no, I mean when I receive a notification by APNs while the app is running in the background and tap on the notification to open the app. When I tap on the notification, the app opens and the nothing happens then.

I tried to remove all the code inside the notification event listener and added an alert and console log to understand if it enters the scope or not, but unfortunately I don’t see anything in the terminal and no alert.

I hope this was clear.

import PushNotificationIOS from "@react-native-community/push-notification-ios"

// Utils
import { storageManager } from './'

const handlePushNotifications = (getShareCode, setNotificationRead, navigation) => {
    // PushNotificationIOS.removeDeliveredNotifications(identifiers)
    PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification().then(payload => {
        alert('new notification')
        console.log(payload)
    })
    PushNotificationIOS.addEventListener('notification', function (payload) {
        alert('BG notification')
        console.log(payload)
}

const storeIOSToken = () => {
    PushNotificationIOS.requestPermissions()
    PushNotificationIOS.addEventListener('register', token => {
        storageManager.storeDeviceToken(token)
    })
    PushNotificationIOS.addEventListener('registrationError', err => { console.log(JSON.stringify(err)) })
}

export {
    handlePushNotifications,
    storeIOSToken
}

• storeIOSToken is working

• PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification().then(payload => { is also working when the app is killed

• PushNotificationIOS.addEventListener(‘notification’, function (payload) { ------> not working

Hi,

I struggled with this issue and found the solution for my app.

Actually the issue is that two different functions are triggered in the AppDelegate.m :

• when the app is in foreground, it’s : (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo fetchCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UIBackgroundFetchResult))completionHandler
• when the app is in background, it’s : (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(void))completionHandler

So in my case I replaced : (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(void))completionHandler { [RNCPushNotificationIOS didReceiveNotificationResponse:response]; }

by

(void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(void))completionHandler { NSMutableDictionary *userData = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:response.notification.request.content.userInfo]; [userData setObject:@YES forKey:@"userInteraction"]; [RNCPushNotificationIOS didReceiveRemoteNotification:userData]; }

And the notification listener is called when notification is clicked and the app is in background.

After updating to 1.2.0 I have similar issues - not receiving notifications from ‘notification’ event.

I’ve tried listening on ‘localNotification’ event as @mtettmar suggested (https://github.com/react-native-community/push-notification-ios/issues/107#issuecomment-627365701) and behold, my notifications started appearing again.

After some digging I believe changes from https://github.com/react-native-community/push-notification-ios/commit/15d1085dc73d4defef2fcf1321db37fb67b78053#diff-501451de6931154229be18b351eb277d were the culprit. Now all notifications are coming through didReceiveNotificationResponse:withCompletionHandler which calls localNotificationReceived event in RNCPushNotificationIOS.m (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/handling_notifications_and_notification-related_actions?language=objc - didReceiveNotificationResponse:withCompletionHandler is fired on push tap)

So in summary I believe you would only receive notifications from ‘localNotification’ event for both remote and local pushes.

@codal-mpawar It all appears to work with just this code. Normally I would expect you to need to use get initial notification function but this appears to work and you get ALL the notification data.

@mtettmar your comment fixes the issue for me, however, this change results in my app requesting push notification permissions on app launch, rather than waiting until a user logs in (which is the expected behavior in the app). Is there a way to achieve the same result without forcing the request for push permissions on app launch? I’m not that familiar with iOS-specific code, so having a little trouble figuring it out. Seems like maybe didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken would be the right place for this?

@cogell not sure if that what I need.

The thing is - I need to have event handler when app in foreground and notification received. Now event fires only if I click on notification ( notification and localNotification handlers works well in this case).

Thanks for help!

@dominiczaq do you have any solution for the issue, it is happening when I tap the notification while the app in the background and then I just arrive to the home page and nothing happens. I worked in the react-native library before and was able to catch the payload when I tap on the notification inside the ‘notification’ handler.

Will be happy for your help

@dominiczaq yes, I know about this, I’m tapping in the notification and not receiving anything inside the ‘notification’ event listener, I added a console log to print the payload when tapping the notification and moving to foreground and nothing happened.