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This is sadly a ubiquitous problem with FOSS phone software. Google's and Apple's notification systems are anti-FOSS. You can use your own on Google phones, but then your app will have to wake up periodically to check it, and the system will detect your app as a battery waster, tell the user your app is a battery waster, and automatically prevent your app waking up to prevent battery waste. And on Apple I believe you simply can't do that because they user has to open the app to wake it.




Not just FOSS. Many corporate apps have exactly the same problems with notification delivery. Those systems barely work.

On Android you can use UnifiedPush so just one app gets background permissions and it wakes everything else up. Chat apps are starting to support it



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