How to Enable iPhone Push Notifications

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Thursday, 5 March 2015

Forget needing to check your apps manually to figure out whether something has happened in them that you need to pay attention to. These days, apps are smart enough to send you notifications that there's something you need to check out. These alerts, called push notifications, can show up as badges on app icons, sounds, or messages that pop up on your iOS device's home or lock screens. This article explains how to configure and use them.

Push Notification Requirements

In order to use push notifications, you'll need:

• An iPhone or iPod touch (technically it needs to be running iOS 3.0 or higher, but that's pretty much everyone in the world these days)
• Apps that support push notifications
• A web connection (3G/4G or Wi-Fi)

While push works on many versions of the iOS, this tutorial assumes you're running iOS 8.

How to Enable and Configure Push Notifications

You don't need to enable push notifications—they're enabled by default as part of the iOS. All you need to do is choose which apps you want to get notifications from and what type of alerts they send. Here's how to do that:

1. Tap the Settings app to open it
2. Tap Notifications
3. On this screen, you'll see all the apps installed on your phone that support push. Each app's settings have to be managed separately, so scroll down to one you want to work with and tap it
4. On this screen, your first option is whether you want to Allow Notifications from this app. If you do, move the slider to On/green, if not move it to Off/white
5. The next option is to determine if notifications from the app will Show in Notification Center (more on what that is in a moment). Tap that menu and on the next screen tap your choice (none, 1, 5, or 10). Tap Phone in the top left corner to return to the previous screen
6. In the Notification Sound menu, you can select the ringtone or alert tone that plays whenever you get a notification from this app. This is optional; you don't have to hear a sound at all. Tap the menu and make your selection. Some apps—such as Phone, Mail, Messages, and Calendar—allow you to configure different sounds for different email accounts, calendar event types, etc.
7. The Badge App Icon determine whether a red number appears on the app icon when it has notifications for you. This can be helpful to see what needs attention, but not everyone may like it. Move the slider to On/green to use it, Off/white to disable it
8. The Show in Lock Screen option lets you control whether notifications will show on your phone's screen even when it's locked. You may want this for things that need immediate attention, such as voicemail messages and calendar events, but may prefer to disable it for more personal or sensitive information
   
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9. In the Alert Style When Unlocked box, you'll control what the notification alerts look like when your phone is not locked. Tap the one you prefer:
   1. None—pretty self-explanatory. You won't see any notifications
   2. Banners—short messages at the top of your screen that disappear after a few seconds
   3. Alerts—pop up windows in the center of the screen that you need to interact with to dismiss.

With those choices made, you've configured push notifications for that app. You'll need to repeat the process for any other app whose notifications you want to customize.

Controlling AMBER and Emergency Alerts

At the bottom of the Notifications screen, there are two other sliders that allow you to control your alert preferences:

• AMBER Alerts—These are alerts issued by law enforcement during child abductions and related emergencies
• Emergency Alerts—Alerts related to severe weather or other major safety-related events.

You can choose to leave them both on, off, or have a mix by moving the sliders to the settings you prefer.

What is Notification Center?

Notification alerts don't just appear on your home and lock screens. Depending on the settings you choose, they can also appear in their own dedicated area of the iPhone: Notification Center.
Learn all about Notification Center.

Notification Center Widgets

In iOS 8 and above, Notification Center supports the embedding of mini-apps to provide immediate, basic functionality directly from the pull-down.

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