# expo-notifications

> Provides an API to fetch push notification tokens and to present, schedule, receive, and respond to notifications.

Latest version **57.0.20** (published 2026-09-18) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install expo-notifications
pnpm add expo-notifications
yarn add expo-notifications
bun add expo-notifications
```

## Health

**Score 75/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; no vulnerabilities; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score; popular repo; extremely popular.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 57.0.20 |
| Published | 2026-09-18 |
| First published | 2020-03-30 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 5 |
| Unpacked size | 1.6 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 52355 |
| Author | 650 Industries, Inc. |
| Maintainers | ide, brentvatne, expoadmin, exponent, bycedric, kudochien, alanhughes, tsapeta, expo-bot, philpl, ccheever, wschurman |
| Keywords | react-native, expo, notifications, expo-notifications, push-nofifications |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/expo-notifications
- Repository: https://github.com/expo/expo
- Homepage: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/notifications/
- Issues: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/expo-notifications

## Dependencies (5)

- [badgin](https://npm.io/package/badgin.md) ^1.1.5
- [expo-constants](https://npm.io/package/expo-constants.md) ~57.0.19
- [abort-controller](https://npm.io/package/abort-controller.md) ^3.0.0
- [expo-application](https://npm.io/package/expo-application.md) ~57.0.3
- [@expo/image-utils](https://npm.io/package/@expo/image-utils.md) ^0.11.5

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## Recent versions

- 57.0.20 (latest) — 2026-09-18
- 58.0.6 (next) — 2026-09-23
- 58.0.0-canary-20260909-ea7a89a (canary) — 2026-09-09
- 56.0.25 (sdk-56) — 2026-08-28
- 55.0.27 (sdk-55) — 2026-08-25
- 56.0.15-canary-20260701-9100865 (canary-sdk-56) — 2026-07-01
- 55.0.11-canary-20260429-a5e59cf (canary-sdk-55) — 2026-04-29
- 0.32.17 (sdk-54) — 2026-04-27
- 0.31.5 (sdk-53) — 2026-01-31
- 0.28.3 (sdk-51) — 2024-05-16
- 0.27.6 (sdk-50) — 2024-01-26
- 58.0.5 — 2026-09-22
- 58.0.4 — 2026-09-21
- 58.0.3 — 2026-09-16
- 58.0.2 — 2026-09-15
- … 377 more at https://npm.io/package/expo-notifications/versions

## README

<p>
  <a href="https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/notifications/">
    <img
      src="../../.github/resources/expo-notifications.svg"
      alt="expo-notifications"
      height="64" />
  </a>
</p>

Provides an API to fetch push notification tokens and to present, schedule, receive and respond to notifications.

## Features

- 📣 schedule a one-off notification for a specific date, or some time from now,
- 🔁 schedule a notification repeating in some time interval (or a calendar date match on iOS),
- 1️⃣ get and set application badge icon number,
- 📲 fetch a native device push token so you can send push notifications with FCM and APNS,
- 😎 fetch an Expo push token so you can send push notifications with Expo,
- 📬 listen to incoming notifications in the foreground and background,
- 👆 listen to interactions with notifications (tapping or dismissing),
- 🎛 handle notifications when the app is in foreground,
- 🔕 imperatively dismiss notifications from Notification Center/tray,
- 🗂 create, update, delete Android notification channels,
- 🎨 set custom icon and color for notifications on Android.

# Guides

Please refer to our [notification guides](https://docs.expo.dev/push-notifications/overview/).

# API documentation

- [Documentation for the latest stable release](https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/notifications/)
- [Documentation for the main branch](https://docs.expo.dev/versions/unversioned/sdk/notifications/)

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