Use notifications on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Discover 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 tin run into your recent notifications on the Lock Screen by picking up your iPhone or waking your iPad. You lot can also exercise these things from the Lock Screen:

  • Tap a single notification to open up the app that it'south 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 articulate the notification.
  • Touch and concord 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 E'er.

Open from Notification Centre

Notification Centre shows your notifications history, assuasive you to curl back and encounter 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 centre of the top of your screen.

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

iPhone showing how to manage notifications

Manage notifications

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

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

You tin also tap View Settings to change your warning styles or warning settings for a specific app.

Schedule a notification summary

With iOS xv and iPadOS 15 or later, you can schedule times to receive a summary of notifications each day so you tin can catch upwards when it'south user-friendly for yous. The summary is personalised to you and ordered by priority based on how you use your apps. The well-nigh relevant notifications will announced at the summit.

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. Under Apps in Summary, select the apps yous want to include in your notification summary.
  3. Under Schedule, tap the Add push button to add a new schedule or the Remove button to remove a schedule. Then arrange the time for each scheduled summary you've set up.

To add 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 boilerplate number of notifications you receive from that app each twenty-four hours.

Change warning styles

  1. Go to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app under Notification Mode.
  3. Nether Alerts, choose the alert manner you want. If you've turned on Permit Notifications, you tin can choose when you want the notifications to exist delivered – immediately or in the scheduled notification summary.

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

iPhone showing how to change alert styles

Modify group notification settings

  1. Go to Settings and tap Notifications.
  2. Select an app and tap Notification Group.
  3. Select one 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 will be grouped together.
    • Off: turn off grouping.

Plough off notifications for specific apps

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

Change how notifications announced 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

Gear up location-based alerts

Some apps will utilise your location to send you lot relevant alerts based on where you are. For example, you may get a reminder to call someone when you go to a specific place or when you leave to go to your adjacent location.

If you don't desire to receive these types of alert, you 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 about Location Services.

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