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title: "Notifications Introduction"
description: "Getting started with iOS notifications"
date: 2016-10-25 15:00:00 -0700
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The `ios` notify platform enables sending push notifications to the Home Assistant iOS app.

The 'ios' platform will automatically load the notify serivce.

The configuration.yaml entry below is no longer required.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - platform: ios
```