Alerts
Push notifications and quiet hours
The four server-side push senders, the local notifications the app raises itself, time-sensitive delivery, threads per domain, and the quiet-hours window.
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Push reaches the DomainGuard iOS app on every plan. The app registers its device token with the server after you allow notifications (POST /api/devices/register) and unregisters it when you sign out.
Who sends what
| Notification | Sender | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor status incident | The status monitor, when a subscribed provider opens or resolves an incident | Normal |
| Domain down / recovered | The uptime probe | Time-sensitive |
| Dark web breach hit | The breach re-check cron | Normal |
| Scan finished | The scan pipeline, if Scan finished is on |
Normal |
New failing DMARC sender, _dmarc deleted or downgraded, recovery |
The DMARC alert cron (Starter and up) | Normal |
| Certificate expiring, health drop, DNS or email change | Raised locally on the device from the data it holds | High findings are time-sensitive |
Notifications thread per domain and per provider, and carry actions: "Open domain" or "Open status". Tapping one deep-links to the right screen; a scan-finished push opens that domain's Vulnerabilities screen.
Quiet hours
Under Account, Notifications, Quiet hours silences non-critical alerts between two times on this iPhone. High-severity findings and your own site being down are delivered as time-sensitive and break through; everything else the device raises waits until the window ends.
Quiet hours are device-local. A push that comes straight from the server (a DMARC new-sender alert at 03:10, for instance) is delivered by iOS at the interruption level the server set, so the setting's footer says which notifications it applies to.
Home Screen quick actions
Long-press the app icon for Add Domain, Scan All Domains and Service Status.
Testing
Account, Notifications has a "Send a test notification" control that raises a local notification, so you can confirm permission is granted and the sound and banner style are what you expect.
Common questions
Do I need the app for push? Yes. Push is APNs to the DomainGuard iOS app. The web dashboard does not send browser notifications.
Will provider incidents wake me up? No. Provider issues arrive as normal notifications and respect quiet hours.
One caveat. All four APNs senders are configured in production and device tokens register, but as of the 2026-09-12 product review no push had been confirmed on a physical handset by the team. If yours are not arriving, see Push notifications are not arriving and tell support; it is the item they most want to hear about.
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