title: Silently send push notifications from my server to my app
body: <p><strong>Setup:</strong> I have successfully deployed a push notification system on my server! That being said, I am able to send notifications to my iOS devices which can send alert messages when something happens on the webserver, for example: when a new customer is added to the system.</p>
  
  <p>This displays a nice message like so</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You have a new customer. More money baby!</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And the notification is of course silent when my application is open but simply automatically updates the customers table for me so I don't have to manually keep refreshing my table.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Problem:</strong> Since then the system has scaled up and now I'm getting messages like that to my device all the time at least a few every hour, this bothers me.</p>
  
  <p><strong>My proposed solution</strong> is to only update my table every single time a new user is added so this would require a push notification to be sent for every new user that is created, thats perfect, but for it to not display messages on my notification center like it did before.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question:</strong> Is there a way to silently send push notification so that I don't get any messages like that on my device, but when the application is running for the push notification to still pop through so that I can update the UI without having to manually refresh my customer's table?
  Is it just a case of leaving blank body parameter of the json push notification sent from my server?</p>
  
  <p><strong>What I don't want</strong>: I don't want to resolve to having to hide the notification from my own application :') </p>