How to setup notifications on iOS web app

[Cryptic5002]

Is there any way to setup notifications on iOS? I enabled it in settings and sent a test notification but it did not work. Is there another setting I am missing?

[ulsklyc]

On iOS, Web Push has a few extra requirements beyond enabling the toggle:

1. iOS/iPadOS 16.4 or newer.
2. The app must be installed to the Home Screen. iOS only delivers Web Push to home-screen web apps, never to a Safari tab. Open Yuvomi in Safari, then Share -> "Add to Home Screen". After that, enable the notification toggle from inside the home-screen app, not from Safari. The subscription belongs to that installation, so a toggle you flipped in Safari does not carry over.
3. A certificate iOS actually trusts. Self-signed certificates or a private CA without an installed profile prevent the service worker from registering, which silently kills push. A plain http:// LAN address will not work either.
4. iOS Settings -> Notifications -> Yuvomi: make sure "Allow Notifications" is on, and check that a Focus mode is not filtering it.
5. Your server needs outbound internet access to web.push.apple.com. In LAN-only or egress-filtered setups the send fails server-side. Check the container logs for [Push] Push send failed: ....

One caveat that is on me: the "Send test notification" button currently reports success as soon as the server accepts the request, even when zero subscriptions were reached or Apple rejected the push. So the server log is the reliable signal right now. I am fixing the button to report the actual delivery count, adding the push service's HTTP status to the error log, and documenting the iOS requirements above in the installation guide.

If you can share your iOS version, whether the app is on the Home Screen, what kind of HTTPS certificate you use, and any [Push] lines from the logs, I can narrow it down further.

[ulsklyc]

This is now released in v1.46.2:

• The test button reports what was actually delivered. It no longer says "sent" when zero devices were reached, and it tells a missing subscription apart from a device that could not be reached.
• A subscription the server has lost now repairs itself. The app re-registers an existing subscription on every start, and the test button additionally detects a subscription bound to an outdated VAPID key, re-subscribes and retries once. Previously the browser kept showing "enabled" while the server had no record of the device, and nothing ever arrived.
• On iPhone and iPad the settings page now names the Home Screen requirement instead of claiming the browser does not support push.
• Push failures log the push service host, HTTP status and response body, so a rejection from Apple is diagnosable.
• The installation guide has an iOS/iPadOS section covering all of the above.

For your setup, the Home Screen installation is still the most likely cause, so start there after updating. If it still does not arrive, the new log line names the service and its rejection reason:

[Push] Push send failed (host=web.push.apple.com status=... body=...)

Post that line here and I will take another look. Closing this for now.