iOS notifications are a simple and powerful way to send data in a loosely coupled way. That is, the sender of a notification doesn't have to care about who (if anyone) receives the notification, it just posts it out there to the rest of the app and it could be picked up by lots of things or nothing depending on your app's state.
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name | The name of the notification for which to register the observer; that is, only notifications with this name are used to add the block to the operation queue. If you pass nil, the notification center doesn’t use a notification’s name to decide whether to add the block to the operation queue. |
obj | The object whose notifications the observer wants to receive; that is, only notifications sent by this sender are delivered to the observer. If you pass nil, the notification center doesn’t use a notification’s sender to decide whether to deliver it to the observer. |
queue | The operation queue to which block should be added. If you pass nil, the block is run synchronously on the posting thread. |
block | The block to be executed when the notification is received. The block is copied by the notification center and (the copy) held until the observer registration is removed. |
An NSNotificationCenter object (or simply, notification center) provides a mechanism for broadcasting information within a program. An NSNotificationCenter object is essentially a notification dispatch table.
For more info, check out the Apple Documentation here