Shipping Notifications Without Asking First — Provisional Authorization in Rork Apps, and the Expo Snippet That Quietly Undoes It
iOS lets you start delivering notifications with no permission dialog at all, via provisional authorization. The catch: expo-notifications reports granted as false for provisional devices, so the registration snippet in Expo's own docs re-requests permission and fires the very dialog you were avoiding. Here's why granted lies, a hook that models authorization as five states, how to write notifications for quiet delivery, when to ask for the upgrade, and how to keep provisional out of your CTR.
iOS Foreground Notifications Disappear in Expo — A Practical Fix Guide
A focused walkthrough of why iOS silently drops push notifications when the app is in the foreground, and how to wire setNotificationHandler correctly for iOS 14+ with expo-notifications.
Why Your 9 AM Reminder Stops Arriving Abroad — Making Expo Local Notifications Survive Time Zones and DST
Daily reminders built with Rork (Expo) can drift to the wrong local time when users travel or DST flips. Here is the timeInterval trap, and a design that reschedules against local wall-clock time, with working code.
Your Daily Reminder Stops Firing After a Couple of Weeks — iOS's Invisible 64-Notification Cap
When a daily reminder built with Rork (Expo) goes silent after a while, the cause is usually iOS's 64 pending-notification limit. Design a repeating calendar trigger for fixed messages and a rolling reschedule for daily-changing content, with working code that survives DST and multiple reminders.
Keeping Expo Push Tokens from Slipping Through the Cracks in Production
After adding re-engagement push to a Rork-generated Expo app, the delivered count came in well below the active install count. The cause was missed token updates and stale tokens left to pile up. Here is the lifecycle I settled on, with code: registration, refresh, server storage, and pruning.
You Only Get to Ask Once — Implementing a Notification Soft-Ask in Your Rork App to Lift Opt-In
On iOS, once a user denies the notification prompt you can never show it again. In a Rork (Expo) app, instead of firing the system prompt on launch, we add our own soft-ask screen and only request permission once the value has landed. Built with expo-notifications, covering Android 13 POST_NOTIFICATIONS, a recovery path after denial, and opt-in measurement.
Rork × expo-notifications — Local Notifications That Fire When You Expect Them To
A complete guide to implementing local notifications in Rork using expo-notifications. Learn how to schedule one-time and repeating reminders with clear code examples.