# iOS Permission for Push Notifications
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [October 15, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117 "2020-10-15T17:30:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Tommaso](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Tommaso)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/1 "2020-10-15T17:30:50Z")
Hi Thunkers,
My iOS app requests the users to allow the App to send push notifications at first open. Is there any way to ask for this permission in a different screen?
Has anyone been able to do that?
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/2 "2020-10-15T21:52:40Z")
As far as I know, however this is based on my experience of publishing apps with push notifications, the user will be prompt to enable/disable push notifications on first launch. They can choose to accept or decline, and this can only be further changed in settings. I believe this may be a thing with Apple as I am yet to see another application do this, however you can open a deep link “url” (path) to the app config in iOS settings with Thunkable.
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### Author:  [@Tommaso](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Tommaso)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/3 "2020-10-15T21:56:38Z")
That’s right. Thanks!
Hovewer, I think it’s really important for users to get a sense of the App before to decide whether or not allow the push notifications. I think it’s not right to ask for it earlier than the onboarding, for instance.
Do you mean that I need to contact Apple to modify this?
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/4 "2020-10-15T22:56:20Z")
Yes you may have a point here, though I wouldn’t consider it a deal breaker imop. Apple do not have any way of alerting this. All of this works around how you build the app.
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### Author:  [@Tommaso](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Tommaso)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/5 "2020-10-16T06:37:53Z")
Indeed, this is what I thought - we need to fix this in our Apps.
So, is there any possibility we can postpone this permission request? If so, how can we do that?
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/6 "2020-10-16T07:01:21Z")
Not right now. I’ve downloaded plenty of apps with a similar alert at first startup to ask for notifications or location. I don’t think this should be a problem for your app, however I understand you do not want this.
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### Author:  [@Tommaso](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Tommaso)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/7 "2020-10-16T09:15:25Z")
Thank you for your response.
Instead, I think this is a very important issue to fix.
I hope the Thunkable team would be able to provide a timeline for this, if possible.
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### Author:  [@Tommaso](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Tommaso)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/9 "2020-10-16T13:30:36Z")
Thank you for the above @drted.
Does this procedure disable the permission that appears for push notifications at startup of the App? I don’t think so, because there isn’t anything that doesn’t trigger this permission.
In order to be clearer: at current stage a user download and opens the App - first thing he sees it’s the permission for push notification. Following your procedure, how we can prevent the permission for push notification to appear at startup?
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### Author:  [@drted](https://community.thunkable.com/u/drted)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/10 "2020-10-16T14:10:53Z")
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. My bad (suggestion deleted…) 😬
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### Author:  [@fastasarocket](https://community.thunkable.com/u/fastasarocket)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/11 "2022-10-06T01:14:27Z")
> [@eoinparkinson](#):
>
> you can open a deep link “url” (path) to the app config in iOS settings with Thunkable.
Hey Eoin, I’ve been searching around to learn how to do this and have tried heaps of options with the open link block…
prefs:
prefs://
prefs:root=NOTIFICATION\_ID
But none of them seem to work. Have you seen this work in Thunkable apps and if so could you please share the link text to open the iOS Notification Settings?
PS. Would also be a great bonus if you know of a similar link that would work in Android.
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/12 "2022-10-26T20:55:54Z")
# iOS
For **iOS** , the following command opens the Settings Application on a screen displaying your app and it’s permissions. If you are using the notifications component, this will be visible here. As far as I can see, actual deep linking isn’t supported. If it were, [these links](https://gist.github.com/tzmartin/b7019c22fc3152a0b2fe) would work. [This](https://docs.thunkable.com/release-notes/release-notes-2018#apr-5-2018) is also the only mention of deep linking in the official documentation. Hope this helps.
```auto
app-settings:
```
| Thunkable Blocks | iOS App Screen Example [News App] |
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ios-permission-for-push-notifications/905117/13 "2024-11-08T12:22:03Z")