ios push notification development on free apple account

Question

I am very new to ios development. Recently somewhere i read that Apple has now allowed the integration of push notification into the app during development not production on unpaid apple accounts. However, i came across problems while trying to enable the push notification capability for my app on xcode and that makes me wonder if we actually need a paid membership to add the push notification feature on our app.

Answer 1

We need aps certificates to register device token for getting notifications. So it is not possible in free account.