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App Hibernation will affect the operation of your mobile app depending on the operating system version the phone is running. These effects are summarized below.

Characteristics of device

Hibernation effects

Runs Android 12 or higher

  • Your app's runtime permissions are reset. Note. This action has the same effect as if the user viewed a permission in system settings and changed your app's access level to Deny.

  • Your app can't run jobs or alerts from the background.

  • Your app can't receive push notifications, including high-priority messages.

  • Any files in your app’s cache are removed.

Runs Android 11

Your app's runtime permissions are reset.

Runs Android 6.0 to Android 10

Your app's runtime permissions are reset.

Most notably, users running Android 12 or higher will not be able to receive push notifications once their app is put into hibernation. Furthermore, if they interact with the app to remove it from hibernation, the app will continue to be unable to receive push notifications until they explicitly re-enable the notification permission in the app’s settings.

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Info

The “Not Now” option will dismiss the modal for a day.

Info

Users will continue to see this modal until they hit ‘Never' or change their device’s settings

Additional Info

For more info regarding App Hibernation, please refer to the Android documentation here.