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Set up Amplify Push Notifications

The Push Notifications category allows you to integrate push notifications in your app with Amazon Pinpoint targeting, campaign, and journey management support. You can segment your users, trigger push notifications to your app, and record metrics in Pinpoint when users receive or open notifications. Amazon Pinpoint helps you to create messaging campaigns and journeys targeted to specific user segments or demographics and collect interaction metrics with push notifications.

Amplify Push Notifications is currently not supported for applications created using Expo Go.

Prerequisites

You should have completed the CLI and project setup steps.

An application targeting at least iOS 13.0, using Xcode 14.1 or later.

Push Notifications are delivered via the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). In order to use APNs, you need to setup credentials (keys or certificates) and export your credentials to a p12 file. See Setting up push notification services for more information.

Testing with APNs on the iOS simulator requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 13+, Xcode 14+, and iOS simulator 16+. If your development environment does not meet all these requirements, then you must run on a real device to get an APNs token.

Set Entitlements

Using Amplify Push Notifications with APNs requires the following capabilities:

  • Push Notifications
  • Background Processing -> Remote Notifications

To add these capabilities:

  1. Open your Xcode project, go to project settings, select your main application target, select the Signing and Capabilities tab, and click + Capability in the upper left corner of the editor pane to bring up the Capabilities dialog.