Firestore Push Notification "time out" error Notification doesn't always get sent

I am calling a function from my app that sends a notification out to a specific user on the app. The notification gets sent successfully much of the time but a good amount of times it does not get sent. When it does not get sent I check the logs to see

Function execution took 60003 ms, finished with status: 'timeout'

I have tried playing with my promises / async await but have had no luck as I suspect that is where the issue lies.

Here is what my cloud code looks like now

exports.sendNotification = functions.https.onRequest(async (request, response) => {

    if (request.method !== "POST") {
        response.status(400).send("Send it using post request");
        return;
    }

    var toUid = request.body.toUid
    var fcm = request.body.fcm
    var fromUid = request.body.fromUid
    var type = request.body.type
    var fromName = request.body.fromName
    var messageText = request.body.message

    if (toUid === "" || fromUid === "" || fcm === "") {
        response.status(400).send("Parameter is missing!");
        return;
    }

    // common data for both platforms
    const notification = {
     title: fromName,
     body: messageText,
    }
    const fcmToken = fcm

    // ios specific headers
    const apns = {
      headers: {
        "apns-collapse-id": 'toUid'
      },
      payload: {
        aps: {
          sound: 'default'
        },
        "data": {
          "fromUid": fromUid,
          "type": type
        }
      }
    }

    // final message
    const message = {
     token: fcmToken,
     notification: notification,
     apns: apns,
    }

    // send message
    try {
      return await admin.messaging().send(message);
      response.status(200).send("Done");
    } catch(e) {
      console.log('Error sending message:', e);
    }
});

I call the function from the app as follows

         AF.request("https://myproject.net/sendNotification", method: .post, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding.default)
         .responseString { response in
             print(response)
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                completion("done")
            }
         }

I have seen other stackoverflow questions of similar questions where it was suggested to use .post and JSONEncoding.default and so that is what I have now.

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