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.