iOS Question firebase notifications when uninstall app

[marcick]

Will an user continue to receive notifications if he uninstall the app ?
If yes, how to avoid it ?

 

[Erel]

Will an user continue to receive notifications if he uninstall the app ?

No.

 

[marcick]

But how can my server understand that he is no longer receiving notifications, so I remove from the list and stop pushing him ?

 

[Erel]

If you are using Firebase to send the messages then Firebase will take care of this for you.

 

[marcick]

I'm missing something.
When a user registe on Firebase for notifications, it sends to my server its ID that I store in a map. When an event occour on the server I need to send notifications to some ID.
I'll never know if the user uninstall the app, so I will forever send notifications to that user. Ok, Firebase will discard it. Ok, it is not much traffic.
But I'm thinking if it is better to implement something that purges users after some time that they do not refresh their subscriptions.
Or Firebase can reply me that an user does no longer exists when I try to send him a notification ?

 

[Erel]

The solution depends on your requirements. Why do you need the id of each device? Are you sending each device a custom message?

 

[marcick]

The solution depends on your requirements. Why do you need the id of each device? Are you sending each device a custom message?

Yes !

 

[Erel]

In that case the best solution is to store the most recent update date in the database and ignore tokens that are less than X days.