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Native push notifications for the Rune iOS app, part 2 of 2: the app. Stacked on #482 (backend).

What changed

  • Permission and registration. The app reuses the web app's notification permission flow, now answered on iOS too (host/src/notify.rs moved into the library and asks for alert, sound and badge).
    • Once permission is granted, the app registers with APNs on every activation.
    • winit runs UIApplicationMain without an app delegate, so the host sets a small HazelAppDelegate for the two APNs callbacks. No Rune change was needed.
  • Token. The host hands the token to the runtime (src/push.ts), which calls pushDevice.register when live and signed in.
    • A failed register retries 5 times with backoff, and the next activation tries again.
    • The runtime calls the API only for a token it hasn't registered yet.
    • Sign-out stops any registration still running and calls pushDevice.unregister right away, within sign-out's 3s budget.
  • Taps. A UNUserNotificationCenter delegate, set before launch, handles taps.
    • A push that arrives while the app is in front shows nothing; the in-app notification covers it.
    • A tap opens hazel.path, on a warm or cold start.
    • The host holds the path until the runtime has followed it, so a tap still lands if WebKit's process died in the background.
    • Paths that leave the app (//host, /\\host, control characters) are refused by both the host and the runtime.
    • The badge clears when the app comes to the front.
  • Entitlements and build. aps-environment is development in the simulator's embedded entitlements and production in the release signature. scripts/ios.ts refuses a release whose profile doesn't grant it (the current App Store profile does). The runtime learns the environment from HAZEL_APNS_ENV.

Verification

Simulator: iPhone 17 Pro Max, iOS 26.5. It received a real sandbox device token ([push] device token 80067889… for sh.hazel.ios); the pushes were sent with xcrun simctl push.

Permission Background: banner + badge Tap opens the channel
Foreground: no banner Badge cleared on open Cold start from a tap
//evil.com/x path: stays in the app WebContent killed, then tap: lands on #support

Video (background, push, tap, the channel opens): push-tap.mp4

Checks:

  • cargo fmt --check passes.
  • cargo test --workspace passes 158 + 8 + 5 tests, including app_path.
  • cargo check passes for aarch64-apple-ios-sim and aarch64-apple-ios.
  • apps/native typecheck passes, and 64 tests pass (push: register, dedupe, retry, stopped by sign-out, unregister, isAppPath).
  • apps/web-foldkit typecheck passes.

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  • New Features
    • Added iOS push notifications, including permission requests, APNs registration, foreground alerts, notification-tap navigation, and badge clearing.
    • Added push-device registration and removal, with retries for temporary failures and cleanup during sign-out.
    • Added notification support to iOS and macOS builds, with environment-aware signing for iOS releases.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded iOS setup instructions with push notification guidance and simulator testing steps.

Makisuo and others added 3 commits November 14, 2026 14:25
The iOS app asks for notifications through the web app's own flow (alert, sound, badge;
notify.rs moves into the library for macOS and iOS), registers with APNs once allowed and on
every launch, and hands the token to the runtime, which registers it for the signed-in user
(pushDevice.register) and forgets it on sign-out. A push shows nothing while the app is in
front; a tap opens the app at the notification's hazel.path, a cold start's first page loads
there. Becoming active clears the badge. The simulator embeds aps-environment development,
a release is signed with production.

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- A notification opens only the app's own paths: `shell::app_path` refuses `//host`, any
  backslash and control characters (unit tested), and the runtime checks the path resolves to
  the page's origin before following it.
- Sign-out forgets the token the host sent last, after a registration still on its way.
- A failed registration is retried with backoff (1 to 16 seconds, 5 times), but not when
  signed out.
- A tap's path is held until the runtime says it followed it; a page whose process ended first
  restarts at it.
- The app registers with APNs on every activation, so notifications turned on in iOS Settings
  start when the user comes back; the same token reaches the runtime, and the API, once.
- The notification center's callbacks hand their work to the main queue.

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…etries on activation

The host hands the runtime the token on every activation (the runtime calls
the API only for a token it has not registered), sign-out interrupts a
registration still retrying and unregisters at once, inside its timeout,
and a tapped path is acknowledged once it is followed.

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The change adds iOS push-notification handling, APNs environment configuration, runtime device registration and sign-out unregistration. It also updates an image-download retry test.

Changes: iOS Push Notifications

Layer / File(s) Summary
APNs configuration and permissions
apps/native/scripts/ios.ts, apps/native/src/config.ts, apps/native/host/src/notify.rs, apps/native/host/src/lib.rs, apps/native/host/src/main.rs, apps/native/host/src/runtime.rs, apps/native/host/Cargo.toml, apps/native/host/ios/Cargo.toml, apps/native/host/ios/build.rs
Builds select and validate the APNs environment and include it in the runtime configuration. The notification module provides Apple-target permission callbacks and iOS badge authorization options.
Native iOS notification delivery
apps/native/host/ios/src/push.rs, apps/native/host/ios/src/bridge.rs, apps/native/host/ios/src/main.rs, apps/native/host/src/shell.rs, apps/native/src/ios.ts, apps/native/README.md
The iOS host registers with APNs, forwards tokens and accepted notification paths, and retains paths until the runtime acknowledges them. The runtime validates and handles host messages. The README documents iOS push setup and behavior.
Runtime registration and sign-out
apps/native/src/push.ts, apps/native/src/push.test.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/platform/push-device.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/auth.ts
The runtime registers and unregisters push devices, retries eligible registration failures, and exposes unregistration to sign-out. Tests cover registration, unregistration, retry behavior, configuration, and path validation.

Image Retry Test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry test assertion
apps/native/host/src/images.rs
The retry test checks that the URL is pending or has a failure timestamp later than the previous failure.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant APNs
  participant HazelAppDelegate
  participant IOSBridge as iOS bridge
  participant IOSRuntime as iOS runtime
  participant PushDevice
  participant PushDeviceAPI as push-device API
  APNs->>HazelAppDelegate: deliver device token
  HazelAppDelegate->>IOSBridge: call set_push_token with token and bundle ID
  IOSBridge->>IOSRuntime: deliver token when the page is ready
  IOSRuntime->>PushDevice: register token
  PushDevice->>PushDeviceAPI: send pushDevice.register
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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to a3219

After sign-out, a phone can stay registered for push notifications and keep receiving the previous user's message previews. This needs a narrow timing coincidence, but the effect is privacy-sensitive. Block re-registration once sign-out starts, and add an ordering check between register and unregister on the backend, before merging.

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The title "feat(native): push notifications on iOS" matches the main change. The changeset adds APNs registration, permission requests, token forwarding, notification tap handling, and sign-out unregistration for the iOS native app. The title is short, specific, and names the platform and feature.

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F1 fixed in 18b3503: the retry policy is now withRetries (exported, used by sendWithSession), and push.test.ts asserts 5 retries then failure, no retry on UnauthorizedError, and stopping on success. The live register/unregister check is the preview step, in progress.

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Coverage Report

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🔵 Lines 73.64% 36720 / 49863
🔵 Statements 72.62% 41756 / 57494
🔵 Functions 61.4% 13166 / 21440
🔵 Branches 61.05% 20855 / 34159
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apps/native/src/config.ts 76.92% 74.41% 75% 81.81% 49, 50-51
apps/native/src/push.ts 81.25% 78.57% 83.33% 83.63% 64-72, 100, 116, 140
apps/web-foldkit/src/app/auth.ts 26.08% 10% 0% 30% 24-25, 31-32, 36-38, 49, 64-76
apps/web-foldkit/src/platform/push-device.ts 37.5% 0% 0% 50% 24-26
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…at once

A missing file fails fast (Windows CI), so the retried download could
already be failed again when the test looked; it now checks the failure
is a new one.

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🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge. Token lifecycle and path guard are tested, but the objective-C host wiring (push.rs, the openedPath handshake) has no test and only ran on a simulator.
no findings · tests partial −1 · risk high −1

The iOS host now hands the runtime an APNs token, which registers it for the signed-in user and forgets it on sign-out, and a notification tap opens its hazel.path. Contained and careful; safe to merge.

  • HazelAppDelegate and a notification-center delegate collect the token and taps (push.rs)
  • push.ts registers the token once per activation and unregisters on sign-out
  • The host holds a tap's path until the runtime follows it
  • signOut forgets the device first, capped at three seconds

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  • Manual · Exercise a production-APNs register and unregister on a TestFlight build; only sandbox was verified

a321904 · What was checked, coverage and telemetry details are on the Maple / review check. Reply "won't fix" to dismiss a finding, or mention @maple-review-bot to ask about one.

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Review comments at @apps/native/src/push.ts:
- Around line 131-132: Set a terminal sign-out flag before aborting and clearing
inFlight, and have register reject subsequent registrations for the lifetime of
that runtime; a fresh sign-in runtime must be able to register again. Add a test
that delivers the same token while unregister is pending and verifies no new
registration starts.
- Line 131: Update the register/unregister flow around `inFlight?.stop.abort()`
to carry a backend-verifiable ordering signal through the `PushDeviceRpcs`
payloads, and update the push-device handlers to reject any registration older
than the latest unregister for that token. Establish the signal’s ordering and
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* goes out at once, while the session it needs still exists. Never rejects.
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const unregister = async (): Promise<void> => {
inFlight?.stop.abort()

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Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift

Sign-out can leave a stale registration when a register request is still in transit.

unregister aborts the in-flight register and sends pushDevice.unregister at once. Abort stops only the local request. If the register request has already left the device, the server can process it after unregister. The handlers in apps/backend/src/rpc/handlers/push-devices.ts have no ordering check, so the later register can commit. The signed-out device then stays registered to the previous user and can receive that user's notifications until another account registers the token.

Blocking new register calls does not cover this case. Waiting for the local in-flight promise does not confirm the server outcome either.

Give the backend an ordering signal. For example, send a monotonic per-device sequence or the sign-out time with register and unregister. Have the handlers ignore a register that is older than the latest unregister for that token. This change touches the PushDeviceRpcs payloads and the handlers from the ancestor PR, so it needs coordination with that PR.

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Update the register/unregister flow around `inFlight?.stop.abort()` to carry a backend-verifiable ordering signal through the `PushDeviceRpcs` payloads, and update the push-device handlers to reject any registration older than the latest unregister for that token. Establish the signal’s ordering and persistence semantics across both handlers; do not rely on aborting or awaiting the local request. Coordinate the payload and handler changes with the ancestor PR.

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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Stop accepting registrations when sign-out starts.

If sign-out starts during initial registration, registered is still unset. This code aborts that request and clears inFlight, but register remains enabled. If another activation delivers the same token while unregister is pending, register starts a new request with the still-valid session. That request can complete after unregister and leave the signed-out device registered.

Set a terminal sign-out flag before aborting, and reject subsequent register calls in this runtime. A fresh sign-in runtime can register again. Add a test that delivers the token while unregister is pending.

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Review comment at @apps/native/src/push.ts around lines 131 - 132:
Set a terminal sign-out flag before aborting and clearing inFlight, and have register reject subsequent registrations for the lifetime of that runtime; a fresh sign-in runtime must be able to register again. Add a test that delivers the same token while unregister is pending and verifies no new registration starts.

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