Utilise notifications on your iPhone, iPad and iPod impact

Find out how to view and manage your notifications to minimise interruptions throughout the day.

iPhone showing how to open notifications from the Lock Screen

Open from the Lock Screen

You can see your recent notifications on the Lock Screen by picking upwardly your iPhone or waking your iPad. You can also exercise these things from the Lock Screen:

  • Tap a single notification to open the app that information technology's from.
  • Tap a group of notifications to view all contempo notifications from that app.
  • Swipe left over a notification to manage alerts for that app or clear the notification.
  • Touch on and hold a notification to view the notification and perform quick actions if the app offers them.

To display the contents of notifications on the Lock Screen without unlocking your device, go to Settings > Notifications > Bear witness Previews and select Ever.

Open from Notification Heart

Notification Center shows your notifications history, allowing you to scroll back and see what you've missed. There are 2 ways to see your alerts from the Notification Eye:

  • From the Lock Screen, swipe upward from the heart of the screen.
  • From whatsoever other screen, swipe down from the heart of the top of your screen.

To clear your notification history, tap the Close push button, so tap Clear.

iPhone showing how to manage notifications

Manage notifications

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

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

Y'all can also tap View Settings to modify your alert styles or alert settings for a specific app.

Schedule a notification summary

With iOS xv and iPadOS xv or afterward, you lot can schedule times to receive a summary of notifications each day so you can catch up when it'south convenient for y'all. The summary is personalised to you lot and ordered by priority based on how you use your apps. The most relevant notifications volition appear at the top.

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

To schedule a notification summary:

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary, then turn on Scheduled Summary.
  2. Nether Apps in Summary, select the apps you desire to include in your notification summary.
  3. Nether Schedule, tap the Add push to add together a new schedule or the Remove push to remove a schedule. Then adjust the time for each scheduled summary you've prepare.

To add new apps to the summary, become back to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary and select the apps under Apps in Summary. Each app will appear with a number, which is the average number of notifications y'all receive from that app each 24-hour interval.

Change warning styles

  1. Go to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app under Notification Style.
  3. Nether Alerts, choose the warning style you want. If yous've turned on Allow Notifications, y'all tin can choose when you desire the notifications to be delivered – immediately or in the scheduled notification summary.

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

iPhone showing how to change alert styles

Change group notification settings

  1. Become to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app and tap Notification Grouping.
  3. Select one of these options:
    • Automated: the notifications from the app will be grouped according to organising criteria inside the app, such as past topic or thread.
    • By App: all of the notifications from the app volition exist grouped together.
    • Off: turn off grouping.

Turn off notifications for specific apps

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

Change how notifications appear on the Lock Screen

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

iPhone showing how to turn on location-based alerts

Ready location-based alerts

Some apps will utilize your location to send you relevant alerts based on where you are. For example, you may become a reminder to call someone when you become to a specific place or when you get out to go to your side by side location.

If you don't want to receive these types of alert, you tin can turn them off. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then tap an app to plow alerts on or off based on your location. Find out more nearly Location Services.

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