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title: "What is the difference between delegates and notifications?"  
description: "What is the difference between delegates and notifications?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-08-06  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "objective c"]  
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# What is the difference between delegates and notifications?

## Delegates and Notifications

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**A delegate** uses protocols and creates a has-a relationship between the two classes. One of the other benefits of delegates is that you can return something back to the owning class.Notifications are more geared towards point to multipoint communication.Delegates create relationships between classes. Notifications are used to send events to one or many classes.we have to use delegate to specified known object.notification for all object.\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

## Delegates and Notifications

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**A delegate** uses protocols and creates a has-a relationship between the two classes. One of the other benefits of delegates is that you can return something back to the owning class.Notifications are more geared towards point to multipoint communication.Delegates create relationships between classes. Notifications are used to send events to one or many classes.we have to use delegate to specified known object.notification for all object.\


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