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In my application I have in app settings for enabling/disabling push notifications. I ran into a case in which if user Don't allow notifications when the application launches and then enables it with Settings in the Application then authorization status is always Denied.

Here is my code for push notification in app delegate.
I have called registerForPushNotifications method in didFinishLaunching.

// MARK: Register app for push notificaitons
    func registerForPushNotifications() {
        UNUserNotificationCenter.current().delegate = self
        UNUserNotificationCenter.current().requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .sound, .badge]) {
          [weak self] granted, error in
          printLogs("Permission granted: \(granted)")
         // guard granted else { return }
            if error == nil {
                self?.getNotificationSettings()
            }

      }
    }

func getNotificationSettings() {
    UNUserNotificationCenter.current().getNotificationSettings { settings in
        printLogs("Notification settings: \(settings)")
        switch settings.authorizationStatus {
        case .authorized:
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                UIApplication.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications()
            }
        case .denied:
            printLogs("Notifications Denied")

        case .notDetermined:
            printLogs("Notifications not determined")
        default:
            break
        }

    }
}

and for enabling notifications from settings I am using this code

 AppDelegate.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications()
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Once a user has denied the permissions for push notifications, he has to enable them from within the settings app in order to get push notifications. So on your settings screen, when user taps on enable notification option just take him to the notifications settings screen of your app. And from there he can enable it. Use this piece of code for opening settings app.

if let bundle = Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier,
    let settings = URL(string: UIApplication.openSettingsURLString + bundle) {
    if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(settings) {
        UIApplication.shared.open(settings)
    }
}

After enabling from within the settings app, status won't be denied anymore.

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  • isn't there any other solution because there is UISwitch added there, so if user plays with switch to enable he has to go to settings everytime which won't be user friendly. – ios Apr 21 '20 at 08:56
  • @ios as far as I know there isn't any other solution. It's a restriction from iOS. – Meeran Tariq Apr 21 '20 at 09:01
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    Is there any callback if user turns on/off notifications in mobile settings ? – ios Apr 21 '20 at 10:40