@dansup @thisismissem I am not sure how it works in the Apple ecosystem, but on Android the solution most apps use is sending just a ping in the push message, and then the app fetches everything it needs and displays the notification itself. It adds some latency, but not very noticeable.
I really think that what Google and Apple call push notifications (where the push message actually contains all the data for the notification) is a bad thing and should not be generally used. Especially because it's really inconvenient to encrypt.

dansup, just write your own code to do it. Stop relying on libraries so much to do things for you.