Well, @rick, as I understand, here is the thing:
For self hosted forums, push notification only works for Android, and you should activate this option : push notifications prompt to invite your users to receive notification. It’s not activated by default
Indeed, and we have it activated:
Yet the following discussion makes it seem like it’s also possible for ios devices.
Indeed, but that was a fix on a service provided to discourse.org users only. The last news I’ve found (June '21) are still the same. This is why, according to the Co-founder of Discourse:
“self-hosted push notifications would mean you have to register an account with Apple. Discourse can not handle data of forums we do not host”.
When asked:
When you say register an act with apple, how would I do that as it’s not a dev act for an app but specifically a website using the discourse app. Is that possible??
He explained:
You would have to
- Fork Discourse Hub
- Register a dev account with apple
- Repackage as a standalone app for your site
- Publish to the app store
- Build infra to handle the push notifications
I am afraid there is no easy solution here, on Android - Google provide a public proxy. Apple do not do that.
Here is the source: iOS Mobile App Notifications - #40 by sam - Support - Discourse Meta
So I take this opportunity to ask you: are you receiving notifications in ANY way? Do you have only an iOS device?