Sound like Apple. What are they preventing?
oh yeah we don’t have push notifications yet because apple has been screwing us over for half a year now. nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8 has a workaround that we’ll be pushing soon and we have a call with apple this week about it.
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to supress notifications we need a special permission from apple called an “entitlement”. We want to have encrypted mute lists. To properly handle encryped mutes we need to have the ability to hide notifications if a user you’ve muted is on your encrypted mute list.
The relay has no way of knowing if you are muting someone on an encrypted mute list and will trigger a notification regardless, so we need this ability to hide a notification locally.
Apple has refused to give us the entitlement since the end of last year. They haven’t given us a reason.
Entitlement seems only be for critical notifications (emergency alerts, alarms, overriding ringer silencers, etc).
Are you triggering the notify service directly from Damus Relay? If so I would work on "filtering" the notifies Relay-side.
In the same way that you would filter Relay-side that Bob only gets notifies on events for Bob's posts (and not Sally's).... A similar Relay-side filter should be able to filter out events from muted parties too.
Then use Apple Notify service under "Active" level, without need for entitlement.
Use Android?