feature request: rich push notifications

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Since Jun 8, 2025.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ios, react-native, typescript
Domain
mobile

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests. Start by tracing the iOS push-notification entry point and how media and avatars are represented in notification payloads; done means images, videos, and avatars display in iOS push notifications.

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Description

🎉 feature
Feature Description

If the push notification contains a media (image or video), we should allow the user to display it.
Similarly, we should display avatars on iOS.

Motivation and Use Case

It's a standard feature

Implementation Ideas

No response

Is this feature available in the API or web version?

Not available

Rocket.Chat Server Version

No response

Rocket.Chat App Version

4.59.0

Device Name

No response

OS Version

No response

Additional Context

No response

Dominant language
TypeScript
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