How to include alerts, sounds, or relevance scores in iOS Live Activities

The Pushwoosh iOS SDK does not manage presentation properties of a Live Activity. It only registers activity tokens on the device - Pushwoosh.LiveActivities.sendPushToStartLiveActivity(token:) for the push-to-start token and Pushwoosh.LiveActivities.startLiveActivity(token:activityId:) for an activity update token (or the setup / defaultSetup helpers, which handle the whole lifecycle for you).

Everything the system renders comes from the payload your backend sends through the Live Activities REST API.

What you can send

• /startLiveActivity - starts an activity remotely. Inside live_activity: event, title, content-state, attributes-type, attributes. The alert text shown when the activity starts comes from the notification's content and title fields.
• /updateLiveActivity - updates or ends an activity. Inside live_activity: event (update or end), title, content-state, relevance-score, stale-date, dismissal-date.

Use relevance-score to control which activity is promoted in the Dynamic Island - a higher number means higher priority. A dedicated sound field is not part of the documented request body; check the iOS Live Activities API reference before relying on any field not listed above.

How the payload travels

1. Your server calls /startLiveActivity or /updateLiveActivity.
2. Pushwoosh forwards the payload to the Apple Push Notification service (APNs).
3. APNs delivers it to the device.
4. iOS renders the update, for example in the Dynamic Island.