Does iOS Safari and / or Microsoft Edge support push notifications?

Question

From the research that I did, I can not find specific answers to this question. The desktop version of Safari has supported this functionality for some time, but does the iOS version also support pushing notifications from websites? If there is no alternative?

I also cannot find anything on Microsoft Edge supporting this feature. It seems to me that I was reading this at some point in time, but now it’s hard for me to find something.

Answer 1

Microsoft Edge does not currently support notifications, although it is currently viewed with 550 votes in User Voice.

You can find the current status on status.modern.ie.

Answer 2

Support for Microsoft Edge will be available soon , as February 3, 2016 Microsoft announced :

The Push API is lagging behind a high-level priority.

There are currently no official plans for iOS.

Answer 3

Safari on iOS does not support push notifications. If you need services to send push notifications to your phone without creating an application / etc. You can always use Pushover / Pushbullet.

Answer 4

If you want to display push notifications from your web application on Windows 10, you might consider creating a hosted web application and distributing it through the repository. This will give you the ability to send push notifications. See http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/07/06/project-westminster-in-a-nutshell/ for an introduction. The sample on this page demonstrates the use of push notifications from a web application:

if (typeof Windows !== 'undefined' && typeof Windows.UI !== 'undefined' && typeof Windows.UI.Notifications !== 'undefined') { //Call Windows.UI.Notifications } 

Answer 5

The problem with push notifications is that there are still a lot of people in older Firefox and Chrome browsers, Internet Explorer can never be supported, Safari will be based on Apple's own protocols, and as much as a web browser push - it can only be part of the solution.

I'm starting to code notifications through Amazon Web Services SNS, and if everything goes well, I'll be back. They do not yet support Chrome / Firefox notifications, but since Amazon wants this for internal use, I think there is a good chance it will happen (or I can create a simple lambda function for this if necessary).

Currently Amazon support:

You send push notifications to mobile devices and desktop computers using one of the following supported push notification services:

• Amazon Device Messages (ADM)
• Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) for iOS and Mac OS X
• Baidu Cloud Push (Baidu)
• Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM)
• Microsoft Push Notification Service for Windows Phone (MPNS)
• Windows Push Notification Services (WNS)

Please note that this includes iOS and OSX, while Windows Desktop

Answer 6

Starting with the latest version of the Windows Insider preview (build 14.14342), web notifications are enabled by default on Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs and tablets (May 16, 2016)