A push notification is a brief alert or data payload delivered to a mobile device or desktop application by a central server. It relies on a persistent background connection maintained by the operating system to receive updates instantly, saving the battery drain of constant polling. Developers use this mechanism to trigger alarms, display text alerts, or silently update app badges.
Heard on the job
The monitoring system fired a push notification to my phone the second the database server went offline.
Also heard as
- push message