Use notifications on your iPhone, iPad and iPod impact

Find out how to view and manage your notifications to minimise interruptions throughout the twenty-four hour period.

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 besides do these things from the Lock Screen:

  • Tap a single notification to open the app that it'south 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 articulate the notification.
  • Touch 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 > Show Previews and select Always.

Open from Notification Centre

Notification Centre shows your notifications history, allowing you to ringlet dorsum and run across what you've missed. There are ii ways to see your alerts from the Notification Eye:

  • From the Lock Screen, swipe up from the middle of the screen.
  • From any other screen, swipe down from the center of the elevation of your screen.

To articulate your notification history, tap the Shut button, then tap Clear.

iPhone showing how to manage notifications

Manage notifications

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

  1. Swipe left over an alert or group of alerts.
  2. Tap Options, then select from these options:
    • Mute for ane 60 minutes
    • Mute for Today
    • View Settings
    • Turn Off

You lot can also tap View Settings to change your alert styles or alarm settings for a specific app.

Schedule a notification summary

With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 or afterward, you can schedule times to receive a summary of notifications each 24-hour interval and then yous can catch upwards when it's convenient for you. The summary is personalised to you and ordered by priority based on how you apply your apps. The most relevant notifications will 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 plow on Scheduled Summary.
  2. Nether Apps in Summary, select the apps you want to include in your notification summary.
  3. Under Schedule, tap the Add push to add together a new schedule or the Remove push button to remove a schedule. Then adjust the fourth dimension for each scheduled summary you lot've fix up.

To add together new apps to the summary, go back to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary and select the apps under Apps in Summary. Each app will announced with a number, which is the average number of notifications you receive from that app each day.

Change alert styles

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

With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, you tin turn on Disquisitional Alerts so notifications come through even if your iPhone is muted or y'all have prepare up a Focus.

iPhone showing how to change alert styles

Change grouping notification settings

  1. Go to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app and tap Notification Group.
  3. Select ane of these options:
    • Automatic: the notifications from the app will be grouped according to organising criteria within the app, such every bit by topic or thread.
    • By App: all of the notifications from the app volition be grouped together.
    • Off: turn off grouping.

Plow off notifications for specific apps

  1. Become to Settings > Notifications, so tap Siri Suggestions.
  2. Turn off whatsoever 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

Gear up location-based alerts

Some apps volition use your location to transport y'all relevant alerts based on where you are. For example, you may get a reminder to telephone call someone when you go to a specific identify or when you leave to go to your adjacent location.

If you don't want to receive these types of alarm, y'all tin plow them off. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, and so tap an app to turn alerts on or off based on your location. Find out more about Location Services.

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