Question

I can’t find sure answers on some questions I had about push/local notifications.

1. Does disabling push notifications also disable local notifications?

2. Can I detect if the user has disabled push notifications for my application? If so, how do I do that? EDIT: Just as I submitted the question, I found: Determine on iPhone if user has enabled push notifications That’s the recommended way?

Thanks!

Answer 1

1. Disabling push notifications does not disable local notifications, they are independent of each other.

2. You can check that way, that will indeed work. Another alternative is to set a persistent flag in your AppDelegate class.

   - (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken
   {
       [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:YES forKey:@"registeredForPush"];
   }
   
   - (void) application: (UIApplication *) application didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:(NSError *)error
   {
       [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:NO forKey:@"registeredForPush"];
   }