[HybridApp] iOS: Push notifications are not received in dev

[arosiclair]

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Reproducible in staging?: N/A
Reproducible in production?: N/A
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
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Issue reported by: @arosiclair
Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01RJ1RCK8D/p1738187074240489

Action Performed:

1. Run HybridApp iOS in dev
2. Login
3. Accept push notification permission
4. Send a DM to yourself

Expected Result:

A push notification is received

Actual Result:

Push notifications are NOT received

Workaround:

Manually set inProduction in AirshipConfig.plist

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @muttmuure (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[arosiclair]

I found the root cause of this in this slack thread with Ryan at airship. In our AirshipConfig.plist, detectProvisioningMode does not work in dev and it uses the production mode instead. The workaround is to disable that and set inProduction = false which fixes push notifications. We just need to fix this so that it doesn't require any manual steps for devs.