Location Push Service Extension

An entitlement to enable a location-sharing app to query someone’s location in response to a push notification.

Discussion

This entitlement enables your app to monitor for Apple Push Notification service (APNs) pushes with the location push type, and receive pushes in your Location Push Service Extension. For more information about the location push type, see Sending notification requests to APNs.

Add the entitlement to your app by following these steps:

  1. Open your app’s Xcode project and select your app from the target list.

  2. Select the Signing & Capabilities panel.

  3. Click “+ Capabilities” and enter “push” in the search field; then double-click Location Push Service Extension to add the entitlement to your app’s entitlements file.

For more information about implementing your Location Push Service Extension, see Creating a location push service extension.