title: How reliable are iOS silent notifications?
body: <p>I need to extend my app functionality with push notifications. The desired outcome would be to send silent notifications which will trigger the creation of local notifications.</p>
  <p>I read about this silent notifications and they seem to be very unreliable.</p>
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  <li>First of all according to this:
  &quot;If something force quits or kills the app, the system discards the held notification.&quot;.
  <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/pushing_background_updates_to_your_app" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/pushing_background_updates_to_your_app</a> the silent notification can be discarded. From my understanding force quit means that you double tap on home screen button and swipe up the app, right?</li>
  <li>Secondly, according to this <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/pushing_background_updates_to_your_app" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/pushing_background_updates_to_your_app</a> apple doesn't recommend to send more than 3-4 silent notifications per hour. Do you have any experience with this behaviour? if you send 15 notification on an hour how many did you get?</li>
  </ol>
  <p>If what I wrote above is true, then what alternative I have to silent notifications?</p>
  <p>I believe remote notifications (of type alert, for example) are not affected by my two points above, right? Even if you force kill the app you will still get them.</p>
  <p>I know there are so some stack overflow questions that covers parts of this topics but they are pretty old.</p>