iPhone Push Notification Character Limit

Question

I\'m brand new to IOS push notifications. I have been reading about them and can\'t seem to find this information anywhere. I have read that the size limit on a push notif

Answer 1

The above is all fairly unclear, because 'include' can mean "it is already included" or "you must include it". To be very clear, the device ID is 'metadata', not part of the payload, and does not come out of your 256 character budget. The other APS overhead (standard payload dictionary), though, is.

Source: the above documentation plus experimentation to verify.