IOS deep linking handle on cold start

** Which Category is your question related to? ** Push notification deep linking ** What AWS Services are you utilizing? ** push notifications, pinpoint ** Provide additional details e.g. code snippets ** When I receive notification and want to handle deep linking and redirect app, can’t do it on ios when app not running.

PushNotification.onNotification(notification => {
    handlePushNotification(notification);
    notification.finish(PushNotificationIOS.FetchResult.NoData);
});

onNotification simply never been called. I know there is also

PushNotification.onNotificationOpened(notification => {
  handlePushNotification(notification);
});

but this code works only for android https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js/blob/master/packages/pushnotification/src/PushNotification.ts#L87

Linking doesn’t work either https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/linking#addeventlistener

Is there any other way to handle opening app with deep linking for ios? thank you

[powerful23]

@vitalii @BHesseldieck Hi, sorry for the late response. After some investigation around using push notification in IOS:

1. To get the pushnotification body from cold start, you will need to use PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification(), as you can see the IOS part of Amplify Push Notification module is mainly using the PushNotificationIOS module from react-native. So as a workaround, you can directly use that module to get the notification body when the app cold starts.
2. Unfortunately onNotificationOpened won’t work in IOS but you can change the behavior of onNotification. For now it will be triggered when the notification arrives. But if you unselect the Remote notifications in the Background Modes in xcode, then it will be triggered when the user taps the notification. You can find other ways to do that by checking this

As a conclusion, you can handle the deep linking by using PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification() when app cold starts or onNotification when app is in the background and the notification is tapped by the user.

We will continue investigating into this issue and provide more info in the documentation.

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