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iOS or Android push notifications (can) use SMS for notifying the client that a new message is available ? That’s lovely. Do you have any links or any keywords
by nothrabannosir 1y ago
iOS or Android push notifications (can) use SMS for notifying the client that a new message is available ? That’s lovely. Do you have any links or any keywords to find more ? All I can find online is that iOS uses TCP (XMPP in fact :o TIL. )
- PinguTS 1y agoNo, Apple push cannot use SMS/Text. You need a cell modem to have working SMS/Text. Except the phone itself, most of the devices have no cell modem. Then Apple would need to keep a directory of all the cell phone numbers, because that is the way how the cell modem is addressed.
- yencabulator 1y agoIt wasn't really SMS, it was another message type riding on top of the same lower-level protocol called SS7. But it seems that's no longer in use and it's all just TCP/IP now. (Said differently, the radio firmware got good enough that it doesn't need a special "wake up" packet anymore, it can recognize a packet to itself in a low power state.)