Safari Push Notifications: Complete Setup

The SPN walkthrough that stops you pulling your hair out

Safari Push Notifications is an Apple developer service that delivers notifications directly to your Mac. Beyond the web app notification use case, it is a useful tool for organisations to deliver notifications directly to their teams — without spending an additional $299 for an enterprise developer licence for in-house applications.

If you have backend web services, mission critial processes that can’t afford downtime, or real time market analysis being processed behind the scenes, Safari Push Notifications are very useful for keeping you in the loop without spamming email or developing custom apps just for status updates.

If you wish to integrate SPNs, an Apple Developer Licence is required, however this article also provides good insights for those contemplating setting up SPNs, or just for the curious wondering how they work.

Apple provide a comprehensive integration guide for implementing the service. However, for a variety of reasons — I suspect mostly because of the broad range of protocols used in the service — integrating can cause headaches.

Here are some pretty serious problems I have found integrating SPNs over the years:

• Github projects that…