iOS: UI not updating properly

[binwiederhier]

iOS 15.4.1
iPhone SE (2nd generation)

"As far as I can see - most things work as expected, but when the app is already open and is foreground - I can see push notification appear, but app not updates most of the time. Also when I open app from notification it sometime does not update and show latest messages. The screenshot is depicting such situation - the push notification on the top of the screen is actually 4th massage, but app UI still stuck at 3"

See https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/4#issuecomment-1133767150

[rhld16]

Similar behaviour is seen on iPhone 6s, iOS 15.1. The notification appears in the notification center but does not appear in-app. This can however be fixed by reloading the topic page.

[binwiederhier]

I don't know the reason for why it's happening, but it seems like a solvable issue. It's quite tricky actually, because the notification is saved from the notification app extension, which is a different process than the main app, so we have to notify the main app and then update the views. The way I did manage to do that on my iPhone was a hack and could easily be a race condition that just happens to work on my device.

I'll figure it out...

[binwiederhier]

I think this is fixed by https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-ios/commit/9060af51ef2c0ef5e38026b04fc9df3f9a0902a9, but I won't be able to confirm it until I do another build and people an try it out.

[binwiederhier]

I believe this is fixed in 1.1, see #4 to test the new version. Closing this for now until I hear more issues with this.

[binwiederhier]

This is not fixed. It's still happening in the wild. Sometimes even on my iPhone 7. I am completely clueless as to why

[Tylermarques]

Just wanted to confirm that this is still an open bug.

On an iPhone 12 pro, iOS 16.3.1.

I receive notifications but can't view any of the messages in the topic, regardless of however many times I refresh (pulling down on the topic).

[reedhaffner]

Same as above. I get a generic 'New notification' on SOME (not all) topics and messages. When I click on the notification, it takes me to the home screen, but not to the topic that it was about. If I attempt to refresh the topic, the message will never show up. I can verify that the message is sent through Desktop. iPhone 14 Pro Max iOS 16.5 and self-hosted.

[plia7]

Hello,

I can confirm having this issue too with my iPhone 12 Pro Max iOS 14.4.1. Sometime it works when I receive the notification, when I click on it, it does take me to the app where the notification is showing without a manual refresh. But sometime it doesn't work without a manual refresh. If I'm already inside the app ui, and a new notification arrives, it doesn't reflect the new notification. I hope it can be fixed to make the functionality more consistent.

Thanks.

[Aarkon]

I have to confirm that neither do I receive notifications nor does the content of my app update without manual refreshing, regardless if I have it open or not (iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16.5.1).

Love your work non the less!

[eXistenZ0688]

installed the latest and also only manual pulls/manual refresh show the new messages on iOS 16.6

[Kzumelvin]

Same here on iOS 16.6 iPhone 13. But i get this wierd behavior:

iPhone: When i send a notification from https://ntfy.sh/, i get a push notification as it should be. When i instead send a message from my own hosted server, i get the behavior like you all describe. My server is behind a nginx proxy for ssl certification.

WebApp:

I subscribed to ntfy.sh/ and everything works fine. When i subscribe to <myHostedServer>/ there is an infinite loading circle in the sidebar. The message also needs about a minute to show up in the sent messages.

I also recently watched the networkchuck video and he also installed it locally with a cloudflare secure tunnel. He seems to get it working quite seamlessly.

i think it is some kind of server issue so i will test different server settings the next days and will report.

[wunter8]

Unfortunately, the iOS app is very buggy. The PWA will give you a much better experience: https://docs.ntfy.sh/subscribe/pwa/

If you're self-hosting, follow these instructions to set up web push: https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#web-push

[Chiller2019]

Still the same issue. iOS 17.0.3 on iPad the same

[kWAYTV]

Still same issue 17.2

[binwiederhier]

This is a known issues (https://docs.ntfy.sh/known-issues/), but we have a fix for this, which I hope we can release soon https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-ios/pull/17

[kWAYTV]

This is a known issues (https://docs.ntfy.sh/known-issues/), but we have a fix for this, which I hope we can release soon binwiederhier/ntfy-ios#17

that's nice to hear! i hope to hear from that soon

[binwiederhier]

:loudspeaker: A new version of the ntfy iOS app is currently in TestFlight. This version (hopefully) fixes the issues with the UI not properly refreshing, as well as fixes for subscriptions "getting lost". It contains no other fixes. More to come. To test the app, please use this TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/P1fFnAm9

[binwiederhier]

(Hopefully) fixed as part of v1.3

[lolzivkovic]

I am experiencing same issue where only when I refresh notification they show up. Nothing happens unless I refresh. upstream-base-url is set and everything was working until recently. iOS Version: 17.4.1