APNS notification sound for iOS

Question

I am having some trouble setting the message sound for my app.

So in the apns response sent by the server, I specify "sound" : "default", and its all good. But if I set the "sound":"chime", or "sound":"note", they dont seem to work. It always plays Default. Those are sounds i see form iPhone -> settings -> Sounds.

How can i use the "Note" as my preferred notification sound, or should i create my own sound, and add it to the bundle?

Solution

If you want to play a sound other than the default one, you will need to package the sound in your bundle and specify the file name of the sound in the payload. For example, if I were to include a sound file called notificationCupcake.caf in my app, I would include this JSON key/value pair in the push:

 "sound": "notificationCupcake.caf"