Simplify APNs configuration

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Do you know we can set up iOS Push Notification using APNs Auth Key (token-based)? If not, keep reading.

This week I was setting up Push Notification for iOS in one of our marketing tools (Responsys) and, I noticed you can choose APNs Auth Key (Token-based) over Certificate-based connection to APNs.

This way, we could use

• Same token for multiple providers server
• One token to distribute notifications for all your company's app
• We don't have to renew the Push notification certificates every year as we do with Certificate-based.

How do you achieve this -

1. Log in to your Developer Account
2. Go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
3. Keys section
4. Add
5. Register a New Key
   • Enter the key's name
   • Select the APNs service
   • Go to the next step

When you request a key, Apple gives us the following -

• A 10-character string with the Key ID
• An authentication token signing key, specified as a text file (with a .p8 file extension)

Note: We need to secure both pieces of information carefully.

You can learn more about this at - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/establishing_a_token-based_connection_to_apns