Limiting Notifications

Notification Management:

After the Screen Time, another big improvement that Apple’s made to help distress the life, is much better management for notifications. Now notification will be grouped by app by default. It is so much more pleasant to look at and so much less stressful. Here they can see all of my different apps I’ve got going on, and instead of just a whole wall of them, I still have a wall but they’re much more easily managed. Here is the grouping of my Home app and they see all my motion alerts that have gone off, I don’t need to have all of those on my screen. I can expand them to see more or collapse them to show less. What’s even better is what happens when I swipe left, I have three different options. I can view all of these notifications, I can clear all of those notifications, or I can manage those notifications.

Manage is cool, this is called Instant Tuning. It allows me to easily adjust my notifications on the fly. I can deliver quietly which leaves them off the lock screen and doesn’t notify they, but still sends them to the notification center.

In most cases I have had to just turn all Notifications off as the Icon on the screen still reminds the client there is a message waiting. Most older clients dislike the business of notifications.

Turn-ON/OFF Notifications:

Turn off does just what it sounds like or I can jump in the settings and control them more gradually. Inside of settings they’re going to find a lot of the old stuff as well as a few new things. They have full control including what kind of notifications come in whether they’re temporary or permanent banners, and down the bottom, we can control whether they’re not grouped all, grouped automatically or grouped by app.

Make sure that the app supports notifications. Go to Settings > Notifications, select the app, and make sure that Allow Notifications is on.

If they have notifications turned on for an app but they’re not receiving alerts, they might not have Banners selected. Go to Settings > Notifications, select the app, then select Banners.

Make sure that they’re signed into the Apple ID.

Make sure that Do Not Disturb is off.

If they’ve recently installed an app or restored from a backup, open the app to start getting notifications.

Do Not Disturb: Another great distressing feature of notification has to do with Do Not Disturb. Do they ever wake up in the morning and they just have an entire wall of notification and they already feel stressed out and they have to try to catch up and go through everything? Well, when Do Not Disturb is on or scheduled at night, they can turn on Bedtime Mode. When Do Not Disturb is on, there’s a crescent moon  in the status bar. In Bedtime Mode, all notifications will be delivered quietly, meaning again, they go straight to the notification center but don’t show on the lock screen. That way when they wake up in the morning, they will have a clean phone, they don’t have to worry about anything right away and when they’re ready, they can jump into the notification center and view all the notifications that came in through the evening. A much more gentle easing into the notifications, instead of hitting they with them all right out of the gate.