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XMPP is more reliable than Signal on iOS. My wife regularly doesn't get Signal notifications for messages that I sent when she was in a marginal service until hours later when she opens the Signal app to send me something.

On Android, I've never had any connection issues with either Signal or XMPP, so I would say that this problem is solved.

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Does XMPP reliably get push notifications on iOS?

My impression is that it does, but I daily-drive an Android phone, so maybe someone else here can comment?

Bit of a Radio Yerevan Situation. Not even the various emergency broadcast app reliably get timely push notifications.

The thing about these notifications seem to be that apps that regularily get notifications from the the app get them reliably.

This is based on the observation that xmpp-contacts I'm in regular contact with seem to get notifications quickly and contacts I talk to less regularily not so much.

Sadly this dependent on apples whims

I don't think Apple is the weak link here. Somewhere there must be a gateway between an XMPP server and the APNS. Maybe the server isn't handling it well. I do know APNS was super annoying to deal with before they added the HTTP API.

Also huh, I've been to Yerevan but never heard of Radio Yerevan jokes until now, that's pretty funny.

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