Start a new topic

Push - users or devices?

Quick q about push notifications



**Is it the device that is registered for push, or the device AND the user in combination?**



i.e. if user 1 is on device 1, and they register for push..... when we send a push to user 1, it goes to device 1 (this is my assumption)



What happens if user 2 is now on the same device (and user 1 has been logged out). If we send a push to user 1, does user 2 get it (because they happen to be on the same device?)



What happens if user 1 is logged in with the same profile on device 1 (phone) and device 2 (ipad). When we send a push to user 1 (and both devices are registered OK) will user 1 receive 2 pushes? (I hope so)



Thanks!



(I will play with this at some point but haven't got to this yet in Kinvey and wanted some guidance over and above the docs, so I can consider what we need to do)
1 Comment

For iOS, yes and yes. Although a push token is associated with a user in kinvey, it is actually tied to the device. If you register push with user 1 and log out the user without unregistering the push token, and then log in with the user 2; any pushes that would go to user 1 will show up on the device even though user 2 is logged in.



With multiple devices, each device has its own token, so if user 1 logs in and registers on an iphone and ipad, then user1 will have two tokens associated with them and the push will be sent to both devices.
Login or Signup to post a comment