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benced on Sept 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

I believe this is the approach that Flighty (https://flightyapp.com/) uses to send flight updates while on non-paid Wifi.

acwan93 on Sept 29, 2023 [–]

Flighty leverages the Apple Push Notification Service (APN), which the iMessage infrastructure also uses. It's why you can receive notifications in flight but can't act on them.

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