Use notifications on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Learn how to view and manage your notifications to minimize interruptions throughout the solar day.

iPhone showing how to open notifications from Lock Screen

Open up from the Lock Screen

You can come across your recent notifications on the Lock Screen by picking up your iPhone or waking your iPad. Yous can also do these things from the Lock Screen:

  • Tap a unmarried notification to open the app that it's from.
  • Tap a group of notifications to view all recent notifications from that app.
  • Swipe left over a notification to manage alerts for that app, or clear the notification.
  • Impact and agree a notification* to view the notification and perform quick actions if the app offers them.

To prove the contents of notifications on the Lock Screen without unlocking your device, become to Settings > Notifications > Show Previews, and select Always.

* On iPhone SE (second generation), swipe left on the notification, then tap View to meet the notification and perform whatever quick deportment that the app supports.

Open from Notification Center

Notification Middle shows your notifications history, assuasive you to scroll back and see what you've missed. In that location are two ways to see your alerts from the Notification Center:

  • From the Lock Screen, swipe upwardly from the middle of the screen.
  • From any other screen, swipe down from the eye of the top of your screen.

To articulate your notification history, tap the Close push, then tap Clear.

iPhone showing how to manage notifications

Manage notifications

To manage your notifications from the Lock Screen or Notification Center:

  1. Swipe left over an alert or group of alerts.
  2. Tap Options, then select from these options:
    • Mute for ane Hr
    • Mute for Today
    • View Settings
    • Turn Off

Yous tin can as well tap View Settings to modify your alarm styles or alert settings for a specific app.

Schedule a notification summary

With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 or later, you can schedule times to receive a summary of notifications each day so you lot can grab up when it'southward convenient for y'all. The summary is personalized to you and ordered by priority based on how you utilize your apps, with the virtually relevant notifications at the elevation.

An iPhone showing a notification summary on the Lock Screen. In the summary, you see notifications from the Yelp, ESPN, and Reddit apps.

To schedule a notification summary:

  1. Get to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary, then turn on Scheduled Summary.
  2. Under Apps in Summary, select the apps that you desire to include in your notification summary.
  3. Under Schedule, tap the Add together button to add together a new schedule or the Remove push button to remove a schedule. So accommodate the fourth dimension for each scheduled summary you have prepare.

To add new apps to the summary, go back 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 y'all receive each twenty-four hours from that app.

Alter alert styles

  1. Go to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app under Notification Style.
  3. Under Alerts, cull the alarm style that you want. If you turn on Let Notifications, choose when you want the notifications delivered — immediately or in the scheduled notification summary.

With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, yous can turn on Critical Alerts so notifications come through fifty-fifty if your iPhone is muted or you lot have a Focus set up.

iPhone showing how to change alert styles

Change group notification settings

  1. Go to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app and tap Notification Grouping.
  3. Select one of these options:
    • Automatic: The notifications from the app are grouped according to organizing criteria within the app, such as by topic or thread.
    • Past App: All the notifications from the app are grouped together.
    • Off: Turn off group.

Turn off notifications for specific apps

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications, and then tap Siri Suggestions.
  2. Plow off whatsoever app.

Modify how notifications appear on the Lock Screen

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications and select an app.
  2. Tap Show Previews and choose an option.

iPhone showing how to turn on location-based alerts

Set location-based alerts

Some apps use your location to ship y'all relevant alerts based on where you are. For case, you might get a reminder to call someone when y'all get to a specific place or when you get out for your next location.

If you don't desire these type of alerts, you can turn them off. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, so tap an app to turn alerts on or off based on your location. Larn more nigh Location Services.

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