Replacing AT&T Email-To-Text With Pushover Notifications
AT&T has announced they are shutting down their email-to-text and text-to-email services on June 17, 2025. If you relied on AT&T’s email-to-text service to send short messages to your phone, here’s how you can easily replace it with push notifications from Pushover.
Read Article >>New Pushover for Teams Feature: Inactivity Monitors
A new frequently requested feature is available today for Pushover for Teams subscribers and included free with your subscription: inactivity monitors.
Read Article >>Upcoming Discontinuation of SMS Backup Delivery
Later this year, Pushover will be discontinuing our SMS Backup Delivery mechanism for Pushover for Teams subscribers receiving emergency-priority messages.
While only 6% of Pushover for Teams users are utilizing SMS Backup Delivery, we understand that it is an important failsafe for certain users. However, our mobile applications have gained functionality in recent years that makes SMS backup delivery less of a requirement, as we’ll detail below.
Read Article >>A Note About Notification Encryption and Privacy
In the news recently is a report that “foreign officials were demanding [push notification] data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple”.
While we have no knowledge of any targeting of push notification data of our customers, we have had some questions about how we deliver push notifications and what data is made available to Google and Apple.
Read Article >>Pushover 4.0: Expiring Messages, New Apps View, Supporting Development
Pushover 4.0 for Android, iOS, and Desktop is out now and adds a new look and support for a new message expiration function.
Read Article >>Pushover Turns 10
Hi, I’m joshua stein, the proprietor of Pushover. 10 years ago this week, I officially launched the Pushover app on the Apple App Store and Google Play (back then called Android Market) and since then, support for Pushover’s API has been integrated into countless services, products, open-source libraries, and one-off shell scripts and tools. To date, Pushover has delivered over 3 billion notifications to over 3/4 of a million users.
Read Article >>Custom sounds
Today I’m happy to announce the release of Pushover 3.7 for Android, iPhone/iPad, and Desktop with custom sound support!
While Pushover has long included 21 different sounds that can be selected per-message through our API, a common feature request was the ability to play custom notification sounds stored on a user’s device. This was technically possible on Android but there was no ability to do it on iPhone/iPad, and on Android there was no way to choose between different sounds on a user’s device through the API.
Read Article >>Free trial now 30 days instead of 7
Over the years we’ve heard from some users that our 7-day trial was not long enough to really test out Pushover. Sometimes users would install the app, signup, and then forget about it, only to return to it days later and find that their trial was about to expire. Or users integrating Pushover with a custom IoT project would need a few more days to get their software properly setup to send out notifications.
Today we’re happy to announce that we’re changing our free trial period for Android, iOS, and Desktop platforms to 30 days. As soon as a device on a particular platform is added to a Pushover account, the 30-day trial period for that platform begins. Each of our Android, iOS, and Desktop platforms can be tried out independently or together.
Read Article >>April 15-16 DDoS Attack
On April 15th at approximately 23:30 CDT, Pushover’s API servers came under a DNS amplification Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which caused them to be unreachable by their IPv4 addresses, though they were still reachable over IPv6.
Read Article >>iOS Critical Alerts
A new version of our iPhone/iPad app is available today that adds support for Apple’s Critial Alerts.
Added in iOS 12, Critical Alerts are special notifications that can bypass the device’s mute switch and Do Not Disturb settings to generate audible alerts in emergency situations. This functionality is only available to applications that have applied to and been approved by Apple. We’ve been applying since the day Critical Alerts were announced at Apple’s developer conference in 2018 and Pushover has finally been approved.
Read Article >>Quick Do Not Disturb Mode
Today we’re releasing new versions of our Android, iPhone/iPad, and Desktop apps with a quick Do Not Disturb button. When pressed, you can quickly choose a time period in minutes, hours, or days, and all notifications for your devices will be silenced during that period. Once the time period is up, your notifications will resume automatically.
Read Article >>October 24-25 DDoS Attack
On October 20th, Pushover’s website began receiving a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from thousands of different IP addresses. The rate of attack was not substantial and was easily identifiable, so it did not cause much of a service disruption. This attack was limited to our website (dashboard) and did not impact our API or message sending.
Read Article >>Verizon Wireless Issue (Resolved)
On October 10th, we became aware of an issue with our iOS and Android apps reporting errors reaching our API, only affecting users on Verizon Wireless.
This issue does not affect receiving push notifications through Pushover, as those are relayed through Apple’s and Google’s servers, though downloading of notification image attachments and app icons is done through our API, which cannot be reached on Verizon. This would also affect reaching our website through the app or a web browser while using Verizon wireless for connectivity.
Read Article >>Outage report for August 31st, 2019
On the morning of August 31st, we were notified by our network monitoring systems that all Pushover services became unavailable at 7:22 CDT. This included our API, website, desktop client, and dispatch of any queued messages. A message announcing the outage was posted to our Twitter account @PushoverApp.
Read Article >>Animated GIFs and monospace text
Pushover 3.4 has been released today for Android, iPhone/iPad, and Desktop, and brings full support for animated GIFs and monospace text support.
Many Pushover users rely on our e-mail gateway to receive Pushover notifications from e-mails sent out by devices that don’t directly support Pushover, such as security cameras. After adding image support, we received a number of requests from users to support animated GIFs that are sent out from these security cameras, showing a few seconds of activity instead of just a static snapshot.
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