iOS app stops receiving notifications when reconnected to internet - push-notification

I have a weird problem, I send notifications via FCM to topics in iOS devices.
Sometimes when the device is connected to slow internet or no internet, and then connects back to the internet, all notification sent prior are not received, and new sent notifications after will be delayed!
For example: A device would be connected back to internet all is fine but I receive the notification delayed 10min and when I receive it the very first moment it's shown, it will say in the dialog: 10min ago!
If I restart the iPhone after that, everything will be fixed again! and I can receive notifications normally.
This issue happened to me in two different devices so I am sure its not from the phone. and other apps notifications would be working without problem as well.
I am thinking maybe its something wrong with my fcm notification configurations that I send from the server, can anyone point if I am missing something here.
Message configuration:
$message = CloudMessage::fromArray([
"condition" => $the_conditions,
"notification" => [
"title" => $title,
"body" => $body,
],
"data" => $data_passed,
//Apple:
"apns" => [
"headers" => [
"apns-priority" => "10",
],
"payload" => [
"aps" => [
"alert" => [
"title" => $title,
"body" => $body,
],
"sound" => $sound,
"thread-id" => "thread_$item_id"
],
],
],
]);
I require high availability notifications that need to be sent immediately.
Note: I am using a php library to send the notification from server: kreait/firebase-php

I'm the maintainer of the SDK you're using 👋
Firstly, the message you composed is perfectly fine, there's nothing wrong with it.
In the context of the SDK I regularly receive issue reports about FCM messages being delivered with big delays or not at all, and unfortunately, there's no way to check if and when a message has been delivered from an Admin SDK. If you send a message to Firebase and Firebase doesn't respond with an error (e.g. when the payload is invalid, when a device token is not registered or when the server is unavailable), we have to assume that the delivery was successful.
To ensure highly reliable messages I currently see two ways how you could achieve that:
Use another messaging service that promises highly reliable delivery like e.g https://pushy.me/ (this is not a recommendation, I'm not affiliated to Pushy and have never used it)
When sending a message from your backend server, include a transaction ID in the data payload, and store it in a database. From the receiving client, issue a request back to your backend server to confirm the message reception. This way you could see if and when a message has been confirmed and can re-send it after a defined amount of time. This has some drawbacks of course - perhaps the client received the message, but the confirmation call failed, or messages could still be sent twice. It's just a naive idea from the top of my head 😅

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If I do not use the app during the weekend, on Monday I try to send a message by doing some actions on my app but messages are not being sent. I can see my token stored properly in my database.
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