{"id":600,"date":"2026-01-21T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:09:24","slug":"can-you-provide-ibeacons-that-pop-up-smartphone-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/can-you-provide-ibeacons-that-pop-up-smartphone-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Provide iBeacons That Pop Up Smartphone Notifications?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This question comes up a lot. You might have read that beacons can be used to pop up notifications. Such a mechanism, called Google Nearby Notifications, existed prior to October 2018 after which it was discontinued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, there are two ways to cause beacons to trigger notifications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/ibeacons-for-apple-passkit\/\">Apple Pass Kit on iOS devices<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use an app as described in our article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/Marketing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Beacons for Marketing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question comes up a lot. You might have read that beacons can be used to pop up notifications. Such a mechanism, called Google Nearby Notifications, existed prior to October 2018 after which it was discontinued. Today, there are two ways to cause beacons to trigger notifications:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,207,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}