Migrate to Firebase Installation IDs

If you send iOS push notifications through FCM, register Firebase Installation IDs (FIDs) with Customer.io instead of FCM registration tokens. FID mode is optional, and your existing token-based integration keeps working until you choose to migrate.

If you send push notifications through FCM, Firebase can register devices with Firebase Installation IDs (FIDs) ↗ instead of FCM registration tokens. Starting in version 4.11.0 of the Customer.io iOS SDK, the SDK registers the FID when your app turns on FID registration. Until you do, the SDK keeps registering FCM tokens.

When someone opens a version of your app with FID registration turned on, the SDK replaces the device’s FCM token with the FID on their profile. You don’t need to change anything in Customer.io. To learn how FIDs differ from FCM tokens and how Customer.io sends to each, see Device IDs.

Turn on FID mode

1. Update the Customer.io iOS SDK to 4.11.0 or later, CioFirebaseWrapper to 1.1.0 or later, and FirebaseMessaging to 12.19.0 or later.
2. Turn on FID registration in your app’s Info.plist. See Firebase’s Apple setup guide ↗ for details.
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   <key>FirebaseMessagingInstallationIdEnabled</key>
   <true/>

3. If you set autoFetchDeviceToken(false) and forward Firebase’s MessagingDelegate callbacks to Customer.io yourself, forward messaging(_:didReceiveRegistration:) instead of messaging(_:didReceiveRegistrationToken:). Firebase calls only didReceiveRegistration in FID mode.
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   func messaging(_ messaging: Messaging, didReceiveRegistration installationId: String?) {
       MessagingPush.shared.messaging(messaging, didReceiveRegistration: installationId)
   }

4. If your app calls MessagingPush.shared.registerDeviceToken(fcmToken:), pass the FID from Installations.installations().installationID() instead of an FCM token. Firebase doesn’t return an FCM token in FID mode. Reading the FID doesn’t register it with FCM, so FCM can’t deliver to it until Firebase registers the app. Firebase registers the app at startup by default. If you turned off FCM auto-initialization, call Messaging.messaging().register(completion:) first, and read the FID after it completes.

To go back to FCM tokens, remove the Info.plist key and forward didReceiveRegistrationToken again.