I can\'t find anything about this, and I have never done anything with push notifications (but I know vaguely how they work). In Mavericks, now that OS X can receive push no
Looking forward to using remote notifications in the simulator when iOS 10 comes out.
In the meantime I use the Xcode command line to test notification behavior:
p [((CustomAppDelegateClass *)((UIApplication *)[UIApplication sharedApplication]).delegate) application:[UIApplication sharedApplication] didReceiveRemoteNotification:@{@"aps": @{@"alert": @"Alert Message"}, @"info": @{@"object": @"value"}}];