Notifications – Iphone
Iphone Notification Settings
Scheduled Summary
With iOS 15 later, you can customize scheduled times to receive a notifications summary at a date and time that is convenient for you so you don’t get bombarded with notifications constantly. This is a personalized summary based on your needs so you can order your notifications based on how you use your apps, with the most relevant notifications at the top.
To schedule a notification summary:
- Go to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary, then turn on Scheduled Summary.
- Under Apps in Summary, choose which apps apps you would like to include in your notification summary.
- Under Schedule, click on the Add button to add a new schedule or the Remove button to remove a schedule. Then adjust the time for each scheduled summary you have set up.
If you want to add new apps to the summary, go to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary and select the apps under Apps in Summary. Each app appears with a number showing the average number of notifications that you receive each day from that app.
Show Previews
The Show Preview section allows you to set when notification messages appear on your device. Seeing the preview message can be helpful. It gives you an idea of the notification details without having to open that specific app.
Always
This will always show Notification previews. This will show the entire content of the text, call, notification etc. Although convenient, this can limit privacy if someone looks at the screen of your phone even if it’s locked.
When Unlocked
This will show the content of each notification only when the phone is unlocked.
Never
This will never show the content of notifications regardless of whether the phone is locked or not. When this is on you must go directly to the app that the notification is coming from to view the contents of the notification.
Screen Sharing
Allow Notifications
When sharing your screen with someone, your notifications will not be seen by the other person (It is recommended you keep this off for privacy)
Siri Suggestions
This will allow Siri to choose which apps can suggest shortcuts on the lock screen
Notification Style
This will allow you to customize the notification style on specific apps i.e. if you would like to the full preview of recommended news articles on the lock screen but you you would like the previews for your text messages to be hidden until your phone is unlocked then you can customize those settings for each individual app.
Allow Notifications
This will allow notifications for a specific app
Alerts
Lock Screen:
As you might expect from the name, you should enable the Lock Screen option if you want notifications to appear on the Lock Screen of your device. This is the screen with the time on it that shows up when you wake up your iPhone but don’t unlock it.
The benefit of a Lock Screen notification is that you’ll immediately notice it any time you pick up your iPhone. The downside to a Lock Screen notification is that anyone else can see these notifications as well, since they show up without you needing to unlock your device.
We suggest you enable Lock Screen notifications for important and timely alerts (like phone calls and bank notifications), but disable them for everything else to ensure your Lock Screen doesn’t get cluttered with needless alerts.
Notification Center
Anything that isn’t important enough for a Lock Screen notification is still a good candidate for the Notification Center.
You can view the Notification Center by swiping up from the Lock Screen or swiping down from the top of the screen after unlocking your device. This will show a list of various notifications, grouped by app, time, and date. It’s great for sorting through lots of notifications when you’ve got a little more time.
We suggest turning on Notification Center alerts for every app that you want to get notifications from, whether they’re important and timely or not. That way, you can periodically check the Notification Center to ensure you haven’t missed anything important, without letting the alerts get in the way as you go about your day.
Banners
Banner alerts are the notifications that appear at the top of your screen while you’re using another app on your iPhone or iPad. You see them most often with instant messaging apps, but they can be used for any kind of notification. Banners often let you interact with the app through the notification as well, like typing out a WhatsApp reply.
Banners are the most intrusive kind of alert since they will pop up on your screen no matter what you’re doing. So, like with the Lock Screen notifications, we suggest you only enable Banner alerts for important and timely notifications that you can’t afford to miss.
Banner Style
After enabling Banner alerts for an app, you’ll see a Banner Style option appear. This has two options:
Temporary
banners appear at the top of your screen for a moment, then disappear on their own.
Persistent
banners stay at the top of the screen until you dismiss them yourself, making them useful to notifications you absolutely cannot afford to miss.
Sounds
If you want your notification to make a sound when you receive it, whether it goes to the Lock Screen, Notification Center, or appears as a Banner, you need to enable the Sounds option.
Generally speaking, you almost always want this option turned on. However, if you want to avoid getting distracted by notifications, but don’t want to disable them entirely, you could send them straight to the Notification Center and turn sounds off. This way, you’ll only find out about the alert when you check the Notification Center at a later time.
Badges
Badges are the red little circles or numbers that appear over an app icon on your Home Screen, telling you how many unread notifications you have for that app. They’re useful for getting a quick overview of how many notifications to sort through, but they can also be a source of anxiety if you’ve got hundreds of notifications that you never plan to read.
If you don’t want to use any other types of alert for an app, Badges can be a good prompt for you to open the app itself to read any notifications you’ve missed. That said, disabling badges for every app is also a great way to simplify your home screen.
Lock Screen and Appearance
Show Previews
As stated above this allows you to show notification previews on your lock screen. This allows you to toggle this feature on and off for different applications instead of the default setting for all apps.
Notifications Grouping
- Automatic: The notifications from the app are grouped according to organizing criteria within the app, such as by topic or thread.
- By App: All the notifications from the app are grouped together.
- Off: Turn off grouping.
Government Alerts
Amber Alerts
This Allows your iPhone to receive amber alerts. It is recommended that this feature stays on
Emergency Alerts
This allows you to toggle off emergency alerts that notify you of any dangerous and imminent threats i.e. natural or human-made disasters, extreme weather, active shooters, and other threatening emergencies that are current or emerging.etc.
Always play sound: When this is off emergency alerts will not play a sound.
Public Safety
This turns on notifications that may not be events where the public as a whole is in imminent danger but the public should be aware of i.e wildfire or an AMBER alert for a missing child
Test Alerts
As you may be able to tell from the title these are test alerts to make sure that your emergency notifications are working.
