Macos App Local Notification Not Showing When Testing with Xcode

MacOS App Local Notification Not Showing when testing with XCode

I believe that my problem here was asking permission to use UNUserNotification and then using NSUserNotification to create the notification itself, which of course I had not requested permission to use. Requesting permission is now mandatory in Catalina (and perhaps it was in earlier versions of macOS as well.)

So I replaced the generateNotification function with the following and it all works correctly.

let notificationCenter = UNUserNotificationCenter.current();
notificationCenter.getNotificationSettings
   { (settings) in
   if settings.authorizationStatus == .authorized
       {
       //print ("Notifications Still Allowed");
       // build the banner
       let content = UNMutableNotificationContent();
       content.title = summary ;
       content.body = title ;
       if sound == "YES" {content.sound = UNNotificationSound.default};
       // could add .badge
       // could add .userInfo

       // define when banner will appear - this is set to 1 second - note you cannot set this to zero
      let trigger = UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger(timeInterval: 1, repeats: false);

       // Create the request
       let uuidString = UUID().uuidString ; 
       let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: uuidString, content: content, trigger: trigger);

      // Schedule the request with the system.
      notificationCenter.add(request, withCompletionHandler:
         { (error) in
         if error != nil
             {
             // Something went wrong
             }
          })
      //print ("Notification Generated");
     }

iOS Swift Local notification not popping up

Your issue is the way you are converting the NSDateComponents object to an NSDate.

Simply calling components.date without setting a calendar for the NSDateComponents object will return nil.

Try using this instead:

 notification.fireDate = calendar.dateFromComponents(components)

Alternatively, you can set the calendar property on the components object:

components.calendar = calendar

Because you are setting the fireDate property on the notification object to nil, it will fire immediately, i.e. before you have a chance to close the app and lock the screen. This behavour is documented in the UILocalNotification class reference

Daily Local Notifications Are Not Working

Look at the comments within the code

import SwiftUI
//struct and class should start with an uppercase
struct NotificationView: View {
    //Central location for Notification code including the delegate
    // A call to the notificationManager just like the line of code below has to be included in
    // application(_:willFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) or
    // application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
    //https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unusernotificationcenterdelegate
    //https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/swiftui/how-to-add-an-appdelegate-to-a-swiftui-app
    let notificationManager: NotificationManager = NotificationManager.shared
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            VStack {
                Button("Request Permission") {
                    //Call a func here don't define it
                    notificationManager.requestAuthorization()
                }
                .frame(width: 200, height: 60, alignment: .center)
                .foregroundColor(.black)
                .background(Color.blue)
                .cornerRadius(10.0)
                .padding()
                Button("Add Notifications For Morning") {
                    //Unique date components
                    var dateComponents = DateComponents()
                    dateComponents.hour = 6
                    dateComponents.minute = 30
                    //Reusable method
                    self.notificationManager.scheduleTriggerNotification(title: "Morning Time", body: "Wake Up And Be Productive!", categoryIdentifier: "reminder", dateComponents: dateComponents, repeats: true)
                }
                .padding()
                Button("Add Notifications For Middle Of The Day") {
                    var dateComponents = DateComponents()
                    dateComponents.hour = 12
                    dateComponents.minute = 30
                    //Reusable method
                    self.notificationManager.scheduleTriggerNotification(title: "Middle Of The Day", body: "Did you have your daily run?", categoryIdentifier: "reminder", dateComponents: dateComponents, repeats: true)
                    
                }
                .padding()
                Button("Add Notifications For Night") {
                    var dateComponents = DateComponents()
                    dateComponents.hour = 20
                    dateComponents.minute = 51
                    //Reusable method
                    self.notificationManager.scheduleTriggerNotification(title: "Night Time", body: "Time to sleep", categoryIdentifier: "reminder", dateComponents: dateComponents, repeats: true)
                    
                }
                .foregroundColor(.blue)
                .padding()
                
                Button("Print Notifications") {
                    //Reusable method
                    self.notificationManager.printNotifications()
                }
                .foregroundColor(.blue)
                .padding()
                Button("Delete Notifications") {
                    //Reusable method
                    self.notificationManager.deleteNotifications()
                }
                .foregroundColor(.blue)
                .padding()
            }
        }
    }
}
//You need a central location for the notification code because
// it is needed in more than 1 spot. At launch in the AppDelegate
// and wherever you schedule your notifications
class NotificationManager: NSObject, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate{
    //Singleton is requierd because of delegate
    static let shared: NotificationManager = NotificationManager()
    let notificationCenter = UNUserNotificationCenter.current()
    
    private override init(){
        super.init()
        //This assigns the delegate
        notificationCenter.delegate = self
    }
    
    func requestAuthorization() {
        print(#function)
        notificationCenter.requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .badge, .sound]) { (granted, error) in
            if granted {
                print("Access Granted!")
            } else {
                print("Access Not Granted")
            }
        }
    }
    
    func deleteNotifications(){
        print(#function)
        notificationCenter.removeAllPendingNotificationRequests()
    }
    ///This is just a reusable form of all the copy and paste you did in your buttons. If you have to copy and paste make it reusable.
    func scheduleTriggerNotification(title: String, body: String, categoryIdentifier: String, dateComponents : DateComponents, repeats: Bool) {
        print(#function)
        let content = UNMutableNotificationContent()
        content.title = title
        content.body = body
        content.categoryIdentifier = categoryIdentifier
        content.sound = UNNotificationSound.default
        
        let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: dateComponents, repeats: repeats)
        
        let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: UUID().uuidString, content: content, trigger: trigger)
        notificationCenter.add(request)
    }
    ///Prints to console schduled notifications
    func printNotifications(){
        print(#function)
        notificationCenter.getPendingNotificationRequests { request in
            for req in request{
                if req.trigger is UNCalendarNotificationTrigger{
                    print((req.trigger as! UNCalendarNotificationTrigger).nextTriggerDate()?.description ?? "invalid next trigger date")
                }
            }
        }
    }
    //MARK: UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate
    func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
        
        completionHandler(.banner)
    }
}
struct NotificationView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        NotificationView()
    }
}

Why is the local notification I created with UNUserNotificationCenter not shown in the upper-right corner of my screen?

if you want to see notification banner while app is in foreground use below method

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification,
                                withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
        // Forground notifications.
        completionHandler([.alert, .sound])
    }

Local Notification not working in iOS 10.3.1

After spending some hours on stack over flow, thanks to this answer in another post. We should also mention the content.body. This should not be empty in iOS 10. For some reason the notification works without body in iOS 11 & 12.

Local Notification is not displayed in iOS 10

You are unable to see the local notification because your application might be in foreground. Local Notification doesn't show up if you are in foreground.

Your code is okay, but I would suggest to make some changes & test your app again.

Increase trigger time to 10 seconds. UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger *trigger = [UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger triggerWithTimeInterval:10 repeats:NO];
Added following in applicationDidEnterBackground

[self localNotification];

Make the application to go background.
Wait for 10 seconds, your will get local notification.

Show Notification on Foreground

If you want to show notification when your application is in foreground then, implement

Conform UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate in AppDelegate.h

Add following code in AppDelegate.m

-(void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center willPresentNotification:(UNNotification *)notification withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions))completionHandler {
completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionSound | UNNotificationPresentationOptionAlert | UNNotificationPresentationOptionBadge);
}

Why don't I receive iOS Push Notifications with a debug build connected to Xcode debugger?

The solution ended up being that our server with the Houston gem needed to configure its APNS support to be in development mode, and not in production mode. /p>

Macos App Local Notification Not Showing When Testing with Xcode