Handling notifications when app is closed

On iOS handling notifications that launch the app is relatively straightforward to use

PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification().then((notification) => {
//bootstrapping logic
})

However, what would be the equivalent API to use in this library here? The idea is that one should be able to capture the data the notification is coming with before the app is launched ( whether it exists or not ) so that then the app can appropriately route, bootstrap etc.

From my understanding of the documentation doing this isnt clear to me yet, i would be grateful if you could point me to the right direction and i shall submit a PR on the documentation as this seems to be a very common use case.

[Estebank94]

I am also having this problem. onNotification is not being called when the app is closed.

[plafferty64830]

I’ve been struggling with this concept for some time now and have just figured it out. I knew it was possible because whatsapp/facebook can be opened from a notification and we are directed to a specific page based on the notification content.

PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification() works as long as it’s called outside PushNotification.configure in your index.js.

To access the data passed in the notification simply use:

PushNotificationIOS.getInitialNotification().then((notification) => { const yourNotificationData = notificaton._data })