For Pushover notifications to appear on your Apple Watch, it needs to be secure on your wrist, unlocked, and your iPhone needs to have its screen off.  When in this mode, if you have Notification Mirroring enabled for the Pushover app (configurable inside the Watch app on the iPhone), the notification will appear on your watch.  Note that custom notification sounds are not supported on Apple Watch.

To continue hearing notification sounds on your iPhone even when your Apple Watch is on your wrist, you will need to disable Notification Mirroring for the Pushover application which will stop showing any

The Shortcuts app for iOS can be used to send Pushover notifications by sending HTTP requests to our API.  These shortcuts can be run manually or automatically in response to an Automation, such as "send a message when a HomeKit action happens".

Open the Shortcuts app, and tap the + button.

Tap the Add Action button.

Tap Web.

Then select Get Contents of URL.

Tap on the URL, and enter https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json and change the Method to POST.

Tap Add new field and add new fields for each required API parameter, such as token, user, message, etc.

For certain fields such

The Apple Watch complications included with the Pushover Watch app are designed to display data from our Glances API, not our general Messages API.

This separate API was created for a few reasons:

1. Messages (notifications) are generally much longer than the amount of data that can fit in most Apple Watch complications which are limited to one or three short lines of text, or sometimes just a single number.
2. Messages can be received at any rate, while Apple Watch complication updates are severely rate limited by watchOS.  Attempting to update a complication every time a notification was received may cause

Push notifications that we relay through Apple's servers are encrypted with a per-device secret as detailed in this article. When the Pushover application's notification extension on your device receives the encrypted notification from iOS, it decrypts the message and then returns the unencrypted text back to iOS for displaying or forwarding to an Apple Watch.

On rare occasions, the notification extension may fail to start for some reason and iOS will show the unencrypted text of the original notification, which is just the string "(Encrypted)".  Unfortunately we do not yet have a root cause for the notification extension failing to

Bug Report

If you are experiencing a bug in our Pushover app, the first step is to reproduce the problem.  If you can't reproduce it, we probably can't either and won't be able to fix it.

Once you are able to reproduce the problem, tap the menu icon in the Pushover app, then tap Settings, then scroll down and tap Resolve a Problem.  Scroll down to the bottom and tap contact our support.  Choose "Bug report - iPhone/iPad app" as the request type and then include all of the relevant information in the Message field such as your steps for