Applications on the iPhone and iPad can use notifications, also called push notifications. These are small messages or warnings that alert you to new events, such as a new message, news article, tip, retweet and more.
You can personalize and manage the notifications per application. You can choose from different notification styles, as well as the places where a notification should appear. Of course, you can completely disable notifications for apps or only show them in the notification center.
Activate notifications iPhone or iPad
When installing an app, you are always asked whether the application can send you notifications. Naturally, this app must support notifications, the choice is saved on your iPhone or iPad. You can always adjust this at a later time.
Notification settings
Open Institutions and navigate to ‘Notifications‘ or Notification‘. At the top you will find settings that apply to all notifications. This way you can place them in a Scheduled overview, whether or not to show a preview and how notifications should be displayed when sharing a screen. You can also change the announcement of notifications and Siri suggestions.
You will also find a list of all applications on your iPhone or iPad that have the option to send you notifications. Unfortunately, it is not possible to enable or disable notifications for all applications, you must set this per application.
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Customize notification display
- Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad
- Navigate to ‘Notifications’
- Select the desired view under ‘Show as’
If you choose ‘Number‘ then you will no longer see notifications on the lock screen, but only a number at the bottom of the screen. This indicates how many unread notifications you have left.
Do you choose ‘Pile‘ then the notifications are stacked on top of each other and take up less space on the screen. By swiping up the notifications you can see them all.
Finally, you can choose ‘List‘ then all notifications are shown one below the other on the lock screen.
Planned overview
If desired, you can use a planned overview. This notification overview contains all notifications that you do not want to receive immediately. The overview is organized by priority, with the most important notifications at the top.
When you enable this option and add an app, you will no longer receive the notifications directly, but in the overview. Since the overview appears x number of times a day, you will only see these notifications when the summary is displayed. It is therefore best to enable the scheduled overview for apps for which you do not want to receive notifications immediately.
Manage iOS notifications per app
Go to Settings â–¸ Notifications â–¸ tap the app whose notifications you want to adjust. You will then be presented with various options that you can enable or disable. Below you will find an explanation of all options.
- Allow reporting: Disable to stop receiving notifications from this app
- Notifications: The notification style and behavior
- Strip style: Whether a message should appear temporarily or permanently
- Sounds: Turn the notification sound on or off
- Badges: Red dot with a number next to the app that indicates the unread notifications
- Show preview: Show contents of notifications
- Group notifications: Group notifications from apps or topics
Customize notification style
Via the ‘Notifications’ option it is possible to adjust the style of a notification. Enable the ‘Access Screen’ and/or ‘Notification Center’ option to display the notification and post it in the Notification Center. Choose ‘Strips’ if you want to receive a notification when your iPhone or iPad is unlocked and you have an app active.
The option Strip style receives extra attention and relates to the strips. When your iPhone or iPad is unlocked, you can also receive notifications, which will be placed in a strip. You have the choice between temporary or permanent strips. Temporary strips appear at the top of the screen and disappear automatically. Permanent strips require an action, the notification remains at the top and you must open or swipe up to hide.
Customize notification preview
Notifications always show the content by default, from iOS 11 you can hide them when your iPhone or iPad is locked. You can read in detail exactly what that looks like here. You can change the preview settings via Settings â–¸ Notifications â–¸ Show preview or via the option of the same name in the notification settings for an app.
View missed notifications in iOS
You can find all missed notifications in the notification center. When your device is unlocked, you can open it by swiping down from the top of the screen. When your device is locked, you need to swipe up from the bottom of the screen. You can find out exactly how it works in this tip.
Interactive notifications for iPhone and iPad
Did you know you can use your interactive notifications on your iPhone and iPad? You can then perform additional actions directly from the notification. You can activate the interaction by swiping a notification on the lock screen to the left or down when your device is unlocked.
The rich notifications are very useful because you can read the content of a notification in full or take action without having to open the corresponding app. This way you can complete a reminder, reply to a WhatsApp message and much more. We explain in full here exactly how the interactive notifications work.