I don't receive ANCS notification of type BLE_ANCS_CATEGORY_ID_EMAIL, they arrive as type BLE_ANCS_CATEGORY_ID_OTHER

[Pau]

Hi there, I've been testing out handling the Apple Notification Service notifications. 

I have set up the handler for the ancs_object as on_ancs_c_evt, I can successfully receive notifications. Checking on their category ble_ancs_c_category_id_val_t I can distinguish the different notification types. I receive the notification categories corresponding to their type; BUT if I receive an email, from an app that is not the Mail app in iOS the notification category of the ANCS notification is marked as BLE_ANCS_CATEGORY_ID_OTHER, instead of BLE_ANCS_CATEGORY_ID_EMAIL. This happens for apps like Gmail, Hotmail, etc ...

Is there anything to be done from my side to get this notifications marked as BLE_ANCS_CATEGORY_ID_EMAIL? or is this a problem from the app provider that they are not coding the notification type correctly?

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi. 

Is there anything to be done from my side to get this notifications marked as BLE_ANCS_CATEGORY_ID_EMAIL? or is this a problem from the app provider that they are not coding the notification type correctly?

 I'm afraid this is more on the phone side of things. 

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/CoreBluetooth/Reference/AppleNotificationCenterServiceSpecification/Specification/Specification.html 

"CategoryID: A numerical value providing a category in which the iOS notification can be classified. The NP (Notification Provider) will make a best effort to provide an accurate category for each iOS notification. The enumerated values for this field are defined in CategoryID Values."

Best regards, 
Joakim