How do I disable the Push Notifications Framework?

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I just built and uploaded my iOS app to Apple using 4.9.2 and Apple sent me this email about using Push Notification. I’m not using Apple’s push notification service, so I’d like to turn off that setting, assuming that’s possible. Is it possible?

Dear developer,

We have discovered one or more issues with your recent delivery for “[my app’s name]”. Your delivery was successful, but you may wish to correct the following issues in your next delivery:

Missing Push Notification Entitlement - Your app appears to include API used to register with the Apple Push Notification service, but the app signature’s entitlements do not include the “aps-environment” entitlement. If your app uses the Apple Push Notification service, make sure your App ID is enabled for Push Notification in the Provisioning Portal, and resubmit after signing your app with a Distribution provisioning profile that includes the “aps-environment” entitlement. See “Provisioning and Development” in the Local and Push Notification Programming Guide for more information. If your app does not use the Apple Push Notification service, no action is required. You may remove the API from future submissions to stop this warning. If you use a third-party framework, you may need to contact the developer for information on removing the API.

After you’ve corrected the issues, you can use Xcode or Application Loader to upload a new binary to iTunes Connect.

Regards,

The App Store team

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+1 on this issue. I’ve heard that apps can be rejected because of this (see link below), so it would be great if Epic could provide guidance on this.

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You should upvote this question!!!

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Indeed. Sorry for forgetting.

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any luck on this ?

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As far as I understand, the push notification entitlement is triggered by the inclusion of some library in the engine, regardless of whether your app uses push notifications.

I ended up just adding the push notification entitlement in iTunes Connect (which requires the generation of yet another pair of certificates) and re-downloading my signing certificates. This got rid of the issue for me, and my app has since been approved for release.

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I would like to know how to disable it rather than include it.

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No luck for me, yet.

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Hi, how can I setup a push notification in my app?

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I did exactly every step you said. but i still received apple’s email about missing entitlement above. Could you please elaborate how you did it? Did you still receive apple’s email about missing entitlement?