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fix(mobile): push-token failures no longer report notifications as enabled - #26557

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Problem

When notification permission is granted but getDevicePushTokenAsync() fails (an Android build without Firebase config, or a transient FCM/APNs error), mobile registration logged the error, registered with the relay as notificationsEnabled: false with no token, and set the status to registered. Settings then said "Notifications enabled" on a device that can never receive a push. On a device that already worked, a single failed lookup on refresh sent notificationsEnabled: false and turned off notifications the relay had accepted.

Reproduced on main 5211acf through the production registration function, with permission granted and the token lookup rejecting: the status ends registered and the relay write carries notificationsEnabled: false.

Change

  • nativePushTokenRegistration: once permission is granted, notifications stay enabled even when no token can be read. A failed lookup reuses the token read earlier in this app session; with none, the registration is sent without a token. The relay keeps any token it already holds (coalesce on push_token), so a refresh no longer disables notifications. Preference writes and the device row that iOS Live Activities depend on still go through.
  • registerDeviceWithRelay: a registration accepted with notifications on but no token reports failed, not registered. Settings shows the existing "Couldn't finish enabling notifications" state, and the foreground and session-refresh retries keep trying.
  • Relay Devices.listForUser: reports notifications as enabled only when the device has a push token. Otherwise the web Mobile clients page would list a tokenless device as receiving alerts.

Scope and approval

Fixes #26530

Verification

  • apps/mobile vp test run src/features/agent-awareness/remoteRegistration.test.ts: 19 passed. Against main's remoteRegistration.ts, the 5 added tests fail and the other 14 pass:
    × does not report a device registered when its push token lookup fails
    × saves a preference change when no push token can be read
    × keeps notifications enabled when a refresh cannot read the push token
    × does not report notifications enabled after permission is granted without a token
    × saves a preference change when the push token cannot be re-read
    Tests  5 failed | 14 passed (19)
    
  • infra/relay vp test run src/agentActivity/Devices.test.ts: 2 passed. Against main's Devices.ts, the tokenless case fails.
  • vp run check:changed at 9d42383: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests pass.
  • Not checked: a device run and the web Mobile clients page. Both need a T3 Connect sign-in this environment does not have, so there are no captures. No layout changed; the visible effect is which existing Settings state and Mobile clients label appear, and the tests above cover that. Real FCM/APNs delivery was not exercised.

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juliusmarminge and others added 7 commits October 28, 2026 15:34
…6530)

These tests reproduce #26530 on Android: when the native push token lookup
rejects with permission granted, registration still reports "registered",
and a refresh on an already registered device overwrites the relay's
notification preference with notificationsEnabled: false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…gistered

With notification permission granted, a failed native push token lookup was
swallowed and the device registered with notificationsEnabled: false, so the
app showed "registered" and a refresh overwrote the relay's accepted
preference. The lookup failure, or a token that is empty or for the wrong
platform, now fails registration as read-native-push-token, so the existing
failure status, logging and foreground/session-refresh retries apply.

Fixes #26530

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A registered device whose token lookup failed could no longer save a
preference change. Reuse the token read earlier in this process instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…abled

Signing in before granting permission registers the device with
notifications off. If the token lookup then fails once permission is
granted, the failed refresh kept that "registered" status, so Settings
reported notifications as enabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…ports failure

Failing the whole registration on a token lookup error blocked activity
preference writes and the iOS device row Live Activities depend on.
Register without a token instead (the relay keeps any token it holds),
keep notifications enabled since permission is granted, and report the
registration as failed until the relay has a token.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Mobile now keeps the notification preference on while it cannot read its
push token, so the device list must not report such a device as enabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Mobile registration now retains push tokens across lookup failures and tracks whether a registration includes a token. The settings alert uses that readiness state. Relay device listings report notifications as enabled only when the saved preference is enabled and a push token exists.

Changes: Push notification registration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mobile token handling and readiness
apps/mobile/src/features/agent-awareness/remoteRegistration.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/agent-awareness/remoteRegistration.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx
Mobile registration retains observed tokens and does not accept a lookup result if token rotation occurred during the lookup. Readiness is true only when registration status is registered and the registration includes a push token. The settings success alert uses this readiness check. Android tests cover lookup failures and token rotation.
Relay notification state in device listings
infra/relay/src/agentActivity/Devices.ts, infra/relay/src/agentActivity/Devices.test.ts
Device listings report notifications as enabled only when the saved preference is enabled and the device has a push token. Tests cover null and non-null tokens.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: pixpmusic, maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 9a995

When the push-token lookup fails after permission is granted, the Settings screen shows an error alert and then displays the notifications switch as on. Turning it off opens system Settings instead of retrying registration, and a later successful retry may not update the switch. Fix the switch to use notification readiness and notify subscribers when readiness changes before merging.

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Failed Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Inconclusive Issue #26530 requires two outcomes. (a) A token-fetch failure must not produce a false successful notification registration. (b) A transient lookup failure must not disable notifications the relay acc… Show the rest of SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx render path that uses deviceRegistered (or equivalent) for the notification row, and confirm that a tokenless enabled registration shows the "Couldn't finish enabling notifications" stat…
Passed Passed checks: 3 passed

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: push-token failures no longer make the mobile app report notifications as enabled. It follows the conventional commit format. The changeset matches it: remoteRegistrat…
Description check Passed The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections with substantive content. The Problem section explains the failure and reproduction. The Change section l…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The incremental changes support #26530. The registeredWithPushToken flag and agentAwarenessNotificationsReady() distinguish device registration from notification readiness, which the issue requires. T…
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The title names the main change: push-token failures no longer make the mobile app report notifications as enabled. It follows the conventional commit format. The changeset matches it: remoteRegistration.ts keeps notifications enabled and reports failed registration when no token is readable, and Devices.ts reports notifications enabled only with a push token.

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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections with substantive content. The Problem section explains the failure and reproduction. The Change section lists the three changed components and why each change is needed. Scope links issue #26530 as the bug. Verification lists the focused test commands, results against main, and what was not checked. The author also names the model and harness, as the template asks. The Scope section says 'Scope and approval' but does not explain the approval status. The description does not include screenshots, which the template requires only for UI changes. This change is mostly a logic change with a Settings state effect, so the omission is acceptable.

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Explanation

The incremental changes support #26530. The registeredWithPushToken flag and agentAwarenessNotificationsReady() distinguish device registration from notification readiness, which the issue requires. The reset in __resetAgentAwarenessRemoteRegistrationForTest keeps the test state consistent. The Settings change swaps the permission-granted alert to use readiness. The relay Devices.ts change, unchanged since the last review, reports notifications as enabled only when a push token exists, which follows from the mobile change. I found no unrelated product behavior in the incremental diff or the verified Settings code.

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Explanation

Issue #26530 requires two outcomes. (a) A token-fetch failure must not produce a false successful notification registration. (b) A transient lookup failure must not disable notifications the relay accepted. Outcome (b) remains supported: a failed lookup reuses lastNativePushToken, and nativePushTokenRotations guards overwrites. For outcome (a), the incremental change since 9d42383 removes acceptedRegistrationStatus. A relay-accepted registration with notifications on and no pushToken now sets registrationStatus to "registered" (remoteRegistration.ts, registerDeviceWithRelay, both the cached and accepted paths). Readiness is stored separately in registeredWithPushToken and exposed by agentAwarenessNotificationsReady(). The only verified consumer of that readiness is the permission-granted alert in SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx. The Settings notification row state uses useDeviceRegistered(), which still returns status === "registered". The rendered section of the screen was truncated, so I could not confirm whether a tokenless device still shows the enabled state. The PR description still says a tokenless registration reports failed, which no longer matches the code. The test names in remoteRegistration.test.ts were not inspected in this pass, so I cannot confirm they assert the current behavior.

Resolution

Show the rest of SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx render path that uses deviceRegistered (or equivalent) for the notification row, and confirm that a tokenless enabled registration shows the "Couldn't finish enabling notifications" state rather than an enabled state. Also confirm that remoteRegistration.test.ts asserts the current behavior for a tokenless device (status and readiness), and update the PR description if it still claims a failed status.

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return registrations;
};

it.effect("does not report a device registered when its push token lookup fails", () => {

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This repeats the tokenless registration setup in the preference-change test. Could you fold these status and payload assertions into that test before the preference update?

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it.effect("keeps notifications enabled when a refresh cannot read the push token", () => {

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This repeats the cached-token failure setup in the preference-change test. Could you fold the refresh and its assertions into that case before the preference update?

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Verdict: Approved at 2f29a14

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Notification settings now require token-backed registration before reporting success, while transient token lookup failures retain the latest known token. The relay likewise distinguishes notification preference from delivery readiness, with no change to product defaults or permissions.

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# Conflicts:
#	apps/mobile/src/features/agent-awareness/remoteRegistration.test.ts
#	apps/mobile/src/features/agent-awareness/remoteRegistration.ts

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- Line 321: Update the push-token caching flow around `lastNativePushToken` so a
token read started before a listener rotation cannot overwrite the newer token
when it completes later. Preserve the rotated token for subsequent lookups, and
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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the proof has no capture anyone can open:

  • Permanent blocker: T3 Connect is unavailable, preventing the required authenticated relay registration on both commits.
  • Initial token lookup failure: neither the incorrect success message on base nor the failure message on head was observed.
  • Transient token lookup failure: preservation of the accepted preference, reuse of the session token, and delivery of preference changes were not observed.
  • Tokenless-device filtering on the web Mobile clients page was not observed.
  • No captures or driver scripts were produced; no ghdrop upload was attempted.

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Report notification readiness separately from device registration, which
Live Activities rely on and which do not need the device push token.

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Major · Use notification readiness for the Device… · SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx:438

apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx:438
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Use notification readiness for the Device Notifications switch, and notify subscribers when readiness changes.

When permission is granted and the push-token lookup fails, the relay can accept the registration with status "registered" and no push token. The switch reads deviceRegistered, which is true in that state. The switch therefore turns on after the "Couldn't finish enabling notifications" alert. Turning it off opens system Settings instead of retrying registration.

Use agentAwarenessNotificationsReady() for the Device Notifications switch. Keep deviceRegistered for the Live Activity switch. Live Activities use their own push tokens and need only device registration.

A successful token retry can leave the status "registered" unchanged. setRegistrationStatus returns early for an unchanged status, so subscribers are not notified. Notify subscribers when the push-token flag changes.

Suggested fix for the Device Notifications switch

   return status === "registered";
 }
 
+function useAgentAwarenessNotificationsReady(): boolean {
+  return useSyncExternalStore(
+    subscribeAgentAwarenessRegistrationStatus,
+    agentAwarenessNotificationsReady,
+    () => false,
+  );
+}
+
 export function SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen() {
   const deviceRegistered = useDeviceRegistered();
+  const notificationsReady = useAgentAwarenessNotificationsReady();
-              agentAwarenessPushAvailable && notificationStatus === "enabled" && deviceRegistered
+              agentAwarenessPushAvailable && notificationStatus === "enabled" && notificationsReady
Suggested fix for readiness notifications in remoteRegistration.ts

-function setRegistrationStatus(next: AgentAwarenessRegistrationStatus): void {
-  if (registrationStatus === next) {
+function setRegistrationStatus(
+  next: AgentAwarenessRegistrationStatus,
+  pushTokenRegistered = registeredWithPushToken,
+): void {
+  if (registrationStatus === next && registeredWithPushToken === pushTokenRegistered) {
     return;
   }
   registrationStatus = next;
+  registeredWithPushToken = pushTokenRegistered;
   for (const listener of registrationStatusListeners) {

Apply this change at both accepted-registration call sites.

-    registeredWithPushToken = Boolean(payload.pushToken);
-    setRegistrationStatus("registered");
+    setRegistrationStatus("registered", Boolean(payload.pushToken));
-  registeredWithPushToken = Boolean(payload.pushToken);
-  setRegistrationStatus("registered");
+  setRegistrationStatus("registered", Boolean(payload.pushToken));
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen.tsx at line 438:
Use agentAwarenessNotificationsReady() as the subscribed readiness value for the Device Notifications switch in SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen, while retaining deviceRegistered for the Live Activity switch. Update the readiness subscription so listeners are notified when registeredWithPushToken changes even if registrationStatus remains "registered", and pass the token-registration state through setRegistrationStatus at both accepted-registration call sites.

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- Line 438: Use agentAwarenessNotificationsReady() as the subscribed readiness
value for the Device Notifications switch in SettingsNotificationsRouteScreen,
while retaining deviceRegistered for the Live Activity switch. Update the
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…ush token

The switch read device registration, which stays registered for Live
Activities when no push token is available. It now reads notification
readiness, and a change in readiness notifies subscribers.

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Evidence

Android Pixel 9/API 36, light theme, development build without Firebase configuration; web captures use matching light-theme Mobile clients dialogs. Separate worktrees ran each commit.

  1. Sign into the isolated test stage, enable Device Notifications, grant permission, and let the genuine native Firebase token lookup fail.
  2. Seed an accepted synthetic session token through Expo's native event, wait at least 60 seconds, then Home → foreground without restarting JS. Let token lookup fail again and refresh Mobile clients.
  3. Register the identical enabled-preference/no-token fixture against each commit's running relay Devices service and refresh the web page.
Evidence Before — eb14ddb After — 2f29a14
Native lookup failure Before: incorrect Notifications enabled alert After: incomplete notification setup alert
Refresh and tokenless relay listing Before: registered device Off and tokenless device On After: registered device On and tokenless device Off
Enable interaction Permission and false success recording Permission and incomplete setup recording, repeat enable with detailed lookup trace
Foreground refresh Android interaction, web On → Off Android interaction, web remains On
Actual native failure and registration logs Enable trace, refresh trace: disabled preference, missing token Enable trace, refresh trace: enabled preference, reused token
Running relay service Runtime log, stored rows and response Runtime log, stored rows and response

Drivers and seed scripts · Method and reproduction instructions

The hosted stage runs main's relay. To capture the changed relay behavior, each checkout's unmodified Devices service executed real database queries behind an isolated HTTP driver; the real web client fetched those responses. Accepted native registration payloads were mirrored after hosted acceptance. The seeded session token is synthetic, and no FCM delivery is claimed. No UI text or notification predicate was replaced.

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  • Full Cloudflare Worker deployment and hosted relay authorization were not exercised for the relay change; its unmodified Devices service, database writes, responses, and real web rendering were exercised locally.
  • Actual FCM delivery and a naturally issued prior token were not exercised: Firebase was intentionally unconfigured, and the accepted prior-session token was seeded through Expo's native event.
  • Concurrent token rotation while a native lookup remains pending was not exercised.

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