How to Fine Tune Notifications on iPhone or iPad

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1Turning Notifications On or Off

2Choosing Where Notifications Appear

3Enabling or Disabling Notification Sounds

4Changing Notification Previews

5Turning Notification Grouping On or Off

6Fine-Tuning Notifications from the Lock Screen

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This How.com.vn teaches you different ways to customize app notifications on your iPhone or iPad.

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Method 1

Method 1 of 6:

Turning Notifications On or Off

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   Open your iPhone or iPad’s Settings

   

   . You’ll usually find it on the home screen or in the app drawer.
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   Scroll down and tap Notifications. It’s in the second group of settings.
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   Tap an app.
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   Slide the ″Allow Notifications″ switch On

   

   to enable notifications for this app.
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   Slide the ″Allow Notifications″ switch Off

   

   to disable notifications for this app.
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Method 2

Method 2 of 6:

Choosing Where Notifications Appear

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   Open your iPhone or iPad’s Settings

   

   . You’ll usually find it on the home screen or in the app drawer.
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   Scroll down and tap Notifications. It’s in the second group of settings.
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   Tap an app. The app’s notification options will appear.

   • If you are not currently seeing notifications for this app, slide the ″Allow Notifications″ switch to the On/green position.
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   Select your preferences under ″ALERTS.″ Use the on-screen illustrations to help you decide where you’d like to see your notifications (Lock Screen, Notification Center, and/or Banners).

   • Banners are the rectangular notifications that appear at the top of the screen.
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   Tap Banner Style. If you selected Banner as one of your notification options, you’ll see this setting below the illustrations.
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   Select an option for how long a Banner notification should stay on the screen. This is only necessary if you selected Banner as one of your alert styles.

   • Select Temporary if you want the notification to disappear after a few moments without you having to do anything. The notification will still be available in the Notification Center (just swipe down from the top of the home screen).
   • Select Persistent if you want notifications to stay on the screen until you tap or dismiss them.
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   Choose whether you want to see notification badges on app icons. Badges are the numbers that appear over your icons, telling you how many notifications you have for each app.

   • To enable badges, slide the ″Badges″ switch to the On (green) position .
   • To disable badges, slide the switch to the Off (gray) position.
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Method 3

Method 3 of 6:

Enabling or Disabling Notification Sounds

1. 
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   Open your iPhone or iPad’s Settings

   

   . You’ll usually find it on the home screen or in the app drawer.

   • If you want to change the sound you hear when you receive notifications, see this How.com.vn.
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   Scroll down and tap Notifications. It’s in the second group of settings.
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   Tap an app. The app’s notification options will appear.

   • If you are not currently seeing notifications for this app, slide the ″Allow Notifications″ switch to the On/green position.
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   Slide the ″Sounds″ switch to On

   

   if you want sound alerts.
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   Slide the ″Sounds″ switch to Off

   

   to disable sound alerts.
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Method 4

Method 4 of 6:

Changing Notification Previews

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   Open your iPhone or iPad’s Settings

   

   . You’ll usually find it on the home screen or in the app drawer.

   • Use this method to enable or disable previews of each notification’s content on the screen.
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   Scroll down and tap Notifications. It’s in the second group of settings.
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   Tap Show Previews. It’s at the top of the menu.

   • If you want to customize these options per app instead of for all apps at once, select the app first, and then scroll down and tap Show Previews.
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   Choose a preview option.

   • Select Always if you want to see what’s in the notification whether the screen is locked or unlocked.
   • Select When Unlocked if you don’t want to display notification previews on the lock screen. You’ll still see that you have a notification, but the contents won’t appear until you unlock the screen.
   • Select Never if you don’t want to see the contents of a notification until you open the app it came from.
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Method 5

Method 5 of 6:

Turning Notification Grouping On or Off

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   Open your iPhone or iPad’s Settings

   

   . It’s usually on the home screen.

   • If you have iOS 12 or later, you can reduce screen clutter by grouping notifications together. This feature is turned on by default, but you can disable it if you wish.
   • Grouped notifications appear as a ″stack″ of notifications on the screen. To view all notifications in the stack, tap the top notification.
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   Scroll down and tap Notifications. It’s in the second group of settings.
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   Tap an app. The app’s notification options will appear.

   • If you are not currently seeing notifications for this app, slide the ″Allow Notifications″ switch to the On/green position.
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   Scroll down and tap Notification Grouping.
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   Select a grouping option.

   • Select By App to group all notifications from this app together.
   • Select Off if you want each notification to appear separately (no grouping).
   • Select Automatic if you want your iPhone or iPad to determine whether to group these notifications.
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   Set your notification grouping options for other apps. Each app’s notification grouping settings must be edited separately.
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Method 6

Method 6 of 6:

Fine-Tuning Notifications from the Lock Screen

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   Swipe left on a lock-screen notification. Some new options will appear on the notification’s right side.

   • As of iOS 12, you can edit your notification preferences for a specific app without having to open your Settings.
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   Tap Manage. It’s one of the options to the right of the notification.
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   Tap Deliver Quietly to keep this type of notification off the lock screen (optional). You’ll still see notifications from this app when you unlock the screen.
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   Tap Turn Off to disable notifications from this app (optional). If you don’t want to notifications from this app at all, select this option, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
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