Dear Apple Developer Support, I am developing HushRise, an iPhone alarm application intended to help people in Ukraine manage sleep disrupted by wartime air-raid alerts. Nighttime alerts can force people to interrupt their sleep and seek shelter, sometimes repeatedly. Families must then plan work, school, and other responsibilities around these disruptions. Educational institutions and other services may suspend in-person activities during alerts, making a fixed wake-up time less useful than a wake-up signal that takes the current alert status into account. The purpose of HushRise is to support rest and daily routines under these conditions. It is not an official emergency-warning service and must not replace civil-defence alerts or encourage people to ignore them. The intended behavior is: A user sets a wake-up time and selects their region. At that time, the alarm starts only after a fresh server response confirms that no air-raid alert is active. If an alert is active, the application waits for the reported all-clear. Multiple alarms postponed during the same alert should produce one wake-up signal after the all-clear. A snoozed alarm must also obtain fresh confirmation before starting again. An alarm that has already started may continue until the user stops or snoozes it. We have tested a native AlarmKit integration on a physical iPhone. The system alarm, Lock Screen controls, Apple Watch presentation, and Stop action work. However, without ongoing background audio, iOS suspends our application’s status checks. In one test, an alarm due at 20:09 was not scheduled until the application returned to the foreground at 20:11. Audible background playback helped in experiments, but requiring continuous sound is not appropriate for the intended quiet sleep experience. Could your technical team please advise: What supported architecture should we use for an AlarmKit alarm whose trigger depends on a server event occurring at an unknown time? Can a server notification initiate the necessary validation and alarm scheduling while the iPhone is locked, and what execution guarantees or limitations apply? Is there an entitlement or approval process appropriate to this use case? Would Critical Alerts be applicable, or would another mechanism be more suitable? Which capabilities require Apple Developer Program membership? Our current prototype is installed through a free Personal Team. We understand that an offline device cannot receive new server information and that notification delivery may be delayed. We want to communicate these limitations honestly and build within Apple’s supported APIs. We can provide a minimal reproducible project, sanitized device logs, and a description of our physical-device tests. Thank you for helping us identify a reliable and appropriate approach for people whose sleep and daily lives are affected by the war in Ukraine. Kind regards, HushRise developer