iOS Push Notifications no longer show custom title or media attachment

[Anpro (Andreas Probst)]

Hi everyone,

since a few days iOS push notifications are no longer working as they did before.

Previously I was able to send:
• a custom title
• a media attachment (image)

Now:
• the title is always just “openHAB”
• the media attachment is missing completely

I don’t think it’s a rule or config error, since I am currently on vacation and haven’t updated anything or created new rules.
As a cross-check: I send the exact same content in parallel to my cat sitter via Telegram, and there everything arrives fine.

Setup:
• openHAB 5.0.1
• Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB)
• iPhone 15 Pro

Has anyone else noticed this change? Could it be related to a recent app or service update?

Thanks in advance!

Previously:

Now:

[Pedro_Liberal]

Ahum… add me to the list of people who needed to know that notifications can carry a picture… and only discover this when it’s not working…

[Anpro (Andreas Probst)]

Always happy to help

As I am on Holiday I can‘t show you my rules but have a look here all components are discused there https://community.openhab.org/t/notifications-with-video-attachments-on-ios/158232/22

[Pedro_Liberal]

@Anpro thank you! I’m starting slow, just a basic notification with a title and an image snapshot and I’m already seeing the same as you:

A notification sent with a message, title and an image.

I tried with both a static url to a locally hosted image, and the item itself with item:{item name}

No field appears to work except for the message.

I followed this content:

openHAB Cloud Connector - System Integrations

and this was the result:

Configuration

Imagine item:

Result:

And in myOpenHAB I see similarly:

So my feeling is that either I’m doing something terribly wrong or, there’s a bug in the machine

[Anpro (Andreas Probst)]

As far as I’m concerned, I’m almost certain this must be a current bug.
I can even narrow down the time window when it started happening: this Tuesday between 11:02 and 14:20 CEST (Central European Summer Time, UTC+2).

Important detail: I send all my notifications through a central rule, which then decides whether to use Telegram or iOS Push depending on the recipient.

•	Telegram still works perfectly.
•	For iOS 

Push, only the messages with a media attachment are affected — all others still work as before!

@digitaldan I’m not sure if you’re the right person to ping here, but maybe you could take a look at this issue?

[digitaldan (Dan Cunningham)]

@Anpro what version of the IOS app are you on ? What version of IOS are you on (and if on 26 when did you update?) There’s been no changes to the binding or cloud, but we have been updating our test flight app often.

[Anpro (Andreas Probst)]

Hi @digitaldan,

I am on iOS 26 updated the night when it came out, right before we went to Ibiza so must have been 15.09.2025 and the error occured this week on tuesday so the 23.09.2025 until then everything worked fine.

Regarding iOS App I always use the latest Beta:

But my wife uses the regular openhab app and she faces a similar but not the exact same issue- she also does not receive the media but at least the titles still work:

[digitaldan (Dan Cunningham)]

So i just tried running the latest IOS develop (which is what is on testflight) in xcode, and our notification process is crashing (segfault), so IOS defaults to a basic notification type as we can’t render our fancy one. I’ll open a ticket and fix it as its probably gone unnoticed since IOS gracefully (but silently) handles the crash. This looks like it was due to a recent change in how we handle multiple homes and preferences.

[Anpro (Andreas Probst)]

Thanks!

[Pedro_Liberal]

Adding this one to topics I absolutely need to check soon! OpenHAB always has ways to surprise me, this is soooo cool. Thank you @digitaldan !

[Anpro (Andreas Probst)]

Hi @digitaldan

After a good night’s sleep another question came to my mind – is this issue on the app side or the service side?

If it were the former, it wouldn’t explain why my wife also no longer receives images.

Also, just out of curiosity: do you already have an approximate release date for the new iOS app features that were announced (I think I remember widgets being mentioned)?

BTW, is anything planned for CarPlay as well? That would be awesome for something like a garage door opener.

BR Andreas