Cancel recurring/repeating notifications

I’ve scheduled local notifications using this library. The notifications repeat every day at a specific time.

But now I want to delete these notifications but couldn’t find any way! This is very surprising that library doesn’t support this out of the box.

I get all notifications and identify which one I want to cancel based on some attribute. Then I call cancelLocalNotificationForId on that notification. I do this operation on app launch.

But the problem is that this only cancels it for that particular day and not all days. How do I cancel for all recurring days?

[mparramont]

@sangolariel I think I had the same problem you’re having. The issue lies in the companion push-notifications-ios library where notifications scheduled for the next day will be scheduled with date = null. Here is a bug report on this repo, the author of the library says it’s a problem with push-notifications-ios. In that repo here is the related bug report. Somebody mentioned to use a deprecated method as a workaround, and it worked great for me.

This is how my notification code looks now:

    if (Platform.OS === 'ios') {
      // using a deprecated method since the current one seems to have a bug:
      // https://github.com/react-native-push-notification-ios/push-notification-ios/issues/247#issuecomment-751282455
      PushNotificationIOS.scheduleLocalNotification({
        fireDate: todayAt9PM.toISOString(),
        alertTitle: title,
        alertBody: message,
        userInfo,
        repeatInterval: 'day'
      })
      storeScheduledNotificationId()
    } else {
      PushNotification.localNotificationSchedule({...})
    }

Let me know if that works for you!

[cassidypignatello]

@mparramont great idea, thanks for letting me know!