iOS : Silent notifications not silent ?

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 0.9.0-beta.1
• Platform: iOS
• OS version: 11.1
• Device manufacturer / model: iPhone 6s (iPhone 8,1)
• Cordova version : 7.1.0
• Cordova platform version : ios 4.5.0
• Plugin config : default

Expected Behavior

I am trying to trigger (and update) a notification silently on iOS, when the app is on foreground. From my understanding, a silent notification should not be displayed on the screen when it is triggered (or emit any sound or vibration). It should only be visible when opening the notification tray.

Actual Behavior

Whatever combination of options I use, the notification either displays on the top of the screen, or seems to be not triggered (no notification in the notification tray), without any errors. I also tried to play with the foreground option to false without success.

Steps to Reproduce

I use the following code :

` cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule( { id : 1, title: “Hi !”, text: ‘That was pretty easy…’, sound: false, vibrate: false, silent: true });

`

Context

I have no idea if i use the “silent” option correctly (btw I could really not find any documentation about it). Maybe the silent option is not even appropriate here. I tried other options like putting foreground to false, but nothing worked for me.

My goal is to emit (and update) a notification silently when the app is on foreground, without the user noticing it. When the user put the app to the background, they can see the state in which they left the app by looking at the notification.

Thanks a lot if you could provide any hint here 😃 And thanks to @katzer and all the people developing this plugin, which is working great (despite this small issue) !

[katzer]

The behaviour of a silence notification depends on the native system. For iOS it means that if the phone is running in foreground and receives a system call about a triggered notification, the plugin will just fire the trigger event while no banner will pop up and no notification will be added to the notification center.

[GeneralUSA]

I found my resolve at the following issues: https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/issues/1412 https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/issues/1413 https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/issues/1493

My end code, which I am still tweaking, works with this test base code below, and won’t fire until the app is closed (a good thing):

cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({ title: ’ title ', text: 'text\‘s words’, foreground: false, silent: true, trigger: { every: 1, unit: ‘minute’ } , // for testing, eventually every week; not sure how to let them select the day });

trigger needs v0.9-beta