Adding new subscriptions to iPhone Roost app

The Roost iPhone / Android native app has been discontinued. It is still around to support some legacy accounts.

Mobile Safari, on iOS, does not yet support push notifications, as Safari on the desktop does. (In case that is what you meant above.) We have not yet seen anything in iOS 8, but are still hopeful Apple may include push notifications to mobile Safari before shipped.

To use the ‘link’ method for desktop browsers, you need to enable this setting, then make sure you put a class of roost-prompt-wp on the button or link. It should look like this:

<a href="#" class="roost-prompt-wp">Receive Desktop Notifications</a>

If you would like more info or to chat in detail, hit us back up at [email protected] .

Thanks for getting back to me ! I didn’t realise the mobile apps have been discontinued. That’s a real shame as I am looking for a way to push notifications out to mobile devices.

There were a handful of reasons we made the decision, one of them being the potential future support for push notifications on browsers to mobile devices. If / when that happens, there would not be a need for a native app.