Can I send push notifications to the Messages app?

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Can I send push notifications to the Messages app?

I want to use AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) to send push notifications to the Messages app on my iPhone. By default, when I send a SMS via SNS, I get the message but there is no alert, this is why I want to send push notifications instead. The AWS guide says "you must create an app ID on the Apple Developer portal". Then leads me to specify an App ID Suffix, or Bundle ID. I don't have an app since I want to use the Messages app. Can I specify the Message app ID ? And if yes, what is it?

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on May 7, 2022 8:04 PM

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cmitt68

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May 7, 2022 11:45 PM in response to FreddEng22

Hi!

It‘s not possible to send push notifications to the Messages app, you have to create your own iOS app. That’s what the bundle ID and other information are necessary for. Those information are available from the Apple Developer Portal.

But there are apps on the App Store, to which you can send custom notifications, like i.e. pushover.net. They usually have a rest api, but I‘m not sure, if they can be connected to AWS SNS easily. But you could create an AWS Lambda to call the pushover api and connect that function then to whatever process you are running on AWS.

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