As noted by Michelle Grant (via TechCrunch), the Uber app is now sending users unrelated advertisements via push notifications. In one of the examples shown by Grant, Uber sent a notification to ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

Apple’s first iOS 15.4 beta, rolled out to registered developers last week, lays the groundwork for web apps to deliver push notifications. The feature, long available in Safari for macOS, always ...

Yet another headache is in store for iPhone app developers, courtesy of Apple. Over the past few weeks, reports have spread of the iOS 17.4 beta 2 removing progressive web apps (PWAs) and the ability ...

Apple iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 are gearing up to bring Safari web app push notifications to iPhones and iPads. The Cupertino-based tech giant first mentioned such a feature when it introduced the iOS ...

Any time a company sends a push notification to an iPhone, its application can gather information about the user, including their location, according to security researchers. Meta and TikTok ...

Push notification technology, first introduced by Apple in June 2009 alongside its iOS 3.0 iPhone operating system, have steadily become more important to company marketing strategies. Push ...

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During the WWDC 2022 keynote, Apple announced Web Push to improve notifications from web apps — but Apple's relationship with the technology has always been on shaky ground. At the beginning of the ...

Internal code, including developer APIs, for Apple AR and VR, plus the ability for web apps to send iOS users push notifications has been spotted within Apple's latest iOS 15.4 beta release. "It's not ...

Sometime, maybe around the iOS15 transition, push gmail in the iOS mail app stopped working for me and for my wife. For both of us, the mail app doesn't update until I actually open it - at which ...