There are many third party push services are available, apart from APNS, which works seamlessly on iOS and android devices. The following are the some of the popular third party services…
Firebase(By Google)
Pusher
One Signal, etc.
The APNS(Apple Push Notification Service) is its native service which ultimately used by third party push services. With out an apns no one can send push notification to apple device.
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