Luke Berndt shared a library to help you access iOS Notifications with an Arduino on the Adafruit Forums:
I have put together a Arduino library that makes it really easy to integrate Apple Notification Center Service into a project. This means you can do something cool whenever you get a new email or text message on your iPhone. I got things up an running so that you don’t even need to install an App on the iOS side. (read more)
From the project page:
One of the few things I really liked about my Blackberry was the red blinky light that let me know if anything new happened. The iPhone is a great device, but it is easy miss that you have a new email or text. Apple has create a centralized place to collect all of these new things you might want to know about, called the Notification Center. However, there is still no red blinky light. If you miss the screen turning on when something comes in, you wouldn’t know that you had anything new.
Apple has added something that can help fix this, Apple Notification Center Services (ANCS). This allows for devices to connect over Bluetooth LE (BLE), also known as Bluetooth Smart, and receive notifications from the iOS device. It is in iOS 7.0 and most recent iPhones and iPads. ANCS is behind a lot of the new smart watches and fitness bands that do stuff when you have a new email. All this is great, but wouldn’t it be fun if you could do something really big when you get something new?
I thought it would, so I looked for a way to build a Arduino power device that would connect to iOS ANCS. There is a BLE Arduino shield that plugs right in and comes with lots of great code. AdaFruit also has a BLE Breakout Board. They are both based on the great nRF 8001 Chip from Nordic Semiconductor. They provide an Arduino library for their chip and a free software package that makes it easy to configure the features of the chip.
I also came across some great ANCS code for AVRs & Arduinos that was 95% there. I updated it the be compatible with the latest version of the Noridc library, made it easier to pair and rolled it into an Arduino library. I am going to work on getting my code Pulled back up, but until then use my branch to pull down the latest updates…