Safari Push Notifications

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JAWB25
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Re: Safari Push Notifications

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I'll just post a final confirmation that with one of my currently running games I did get a notification through Safari, so it's all working as expected (for me at least)!
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n3wbSparta
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Re: Safari Push Notifications

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If you use an Outlook email account on your iPhone, and then connect your BGA account to that email address, you can use Push Notifications via the native Mail app on iPhones to alert you when it's your turn. It doesn't work with Gmail addresses, only Outlook (aka - Hotmail).
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drewfrank
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Re: Safari Push Notifications

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Looks like iOS will support push notifications for web apps very soon (if you add the web app to the home screen).
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CelestialMonkey
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Re: Safari Push Notifications

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iOS 16.4 (released 3/28) added support for push notifications for apps on the Home Screen. I can’t get it to work on my phone, so I’m not sure if something needs to be done on the site to get this working.
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CelestialMonkey
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Re: Safari Push Notifications

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I did get it to work! I had to put the app on my home screen and change my preferences in BGA, but I sent a test that worked and later got a notification when it was my turn.
nuttyturnip
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Re: Safari Push Notifications

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It only kind of works for me. I get a push notification, but it doesn’t do the badge notification. Clicking on the notification takes me to the web app, but the web app doesn’t refresh, so I’m looking at my list of games but no indication of which game I have a turn in. When I check my BGA tab in Safari, I can just refresh the page to get the button for games where it’s my turn, but the web app doesn’t have a refresh button. The only workaround I see is to click on a game in the list, and then click the “next table” button.
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