So basically, the local notification must/will always appear and you cannot use it to trigger a background task to inform a user without visually showing the notification itself. You must always use the UNMutableNotificationContent when wanting to use the UNNotificationRequest?

I didnt want to have the local notification that appears at the top of the screen, then disappears.

Can this be done without having the notification appear and the end of the interval timing, a "silent" notification?