Check if Local Notifications are enabled in IOS 8

Question

I've looked all over the internet for how to create local notifications with IOS 8. I found many articles, but none explained how to determine if the user has set "alerts" on or off. Could someone please help me!!! I would prefer to use Objective C over Swift.

Answer 1

You can check it by using UIApplication 's currentUserNotificationSettings

if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] respondsToSelector:@selector(currentUserNotificationSettings)]){ // Check it's iOS 8 and above     UIUserNotificationSettings *grantedSettings = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] currentUserNotificationSettings];      if (grantedSettings.types == UIUserNotificationTypeNone) {         NSLog(@"No permiossion granted");     }     else if (grantedSettings.types & UIUserNotificationTypeSound & UIUserNotificationTypeAlert ){         NSLog(@"Sound and alert permissions ");     }     else if (grantedSettings.types  & UIUserNotificationTypeAlert){         NSLog(@"Alert Permission Granted");     } } 

Hope this helps , Let me know if you need more info

Answer 2

To expand on Albert's answer, you are not required to use rawValue in Swift. Because UIUserNotificationType conforms to OptionSetType it is possible to do the following:

if let settings = UIApplication.shared.currentUserNotificationSettings {     if settings.types.contains([.alert, .sound]) {         //Have alert and sound permissions     } else if settings.types.contains(.alert) {         //Have alert permission     } } 

You use the bracket [] syntax to combine option types (similar to the bitwise-or | operator for combining option flags in other languages).