How to manage and view notifications on your iPhone or iPad

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With the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS, you tin enactment your notifications speech and reappraisal them each astatine a clip of your ain choosing.

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Dealing with notifications connected your iPhone oregon iPad tin beryllium a challenge. You don't privation to continually beryllium interrupted by them but you don't privation to miss an important one. With iOS/ iPadOS 15, Apple has enhanced your quality to negociate and entree your notifications. Thanks to a caller enactment called Notification Summary, you tin take a circumstantial clip to presumption a summary of each notifications, portion inactive allowing calls, messages and different time-sensitive notifications to scope you close away. Here's however it works.

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First, marque definite you're moving the latest mentation of iOS oregon iPadOS. Go to Settings and past General and pat the enactment for Software Updates. You'll beryllium told that your OS is up to day oregon prompted to download and instal the latest update.

Next, spell to Settings and past Notifications and pat the enactment for Scheduled Summary. Turn connected the power for Scheduled Summary. The archetypal clip you bash this, a connection describes however this enactment works. Tap Continue (Figure A).

Figure A

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The adjacent surface asks you to take apps for your summary. Here, you prime the apps for which you'd similar to spot notifications successful the summary screen. Direct messages and time-sensitive notifications volition inactive beryllium delivered to you immediately. Swipe down the surface and crook connected the power for immoderate app that you privation to adhd to the summary. Tap the Show More nexus to spot each your apps. When done, pat the fastener to adhd the apps (Figure B).

Figure B

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At the adjacent screen, acceptable a docket for erstwhile you privation to person your notification summary. By default, the app chooses 2 summaries astatine antithetic times of the day, but you tin alteration that. Tap connected the clip for the archetypal summary to power it to a antithetic time. If you request lone the 1 summary, pat the minus fastener for the 2nd summary to region it. Otherwise, pat the clip for the 2nd summary to alteration it. Tap the positive fastener for Add Summary to adhd a 3rd summary. You tin adhd arsenic galore summaries arsenic you want. When done, pat the fastener for Turn connected Notification Summary (Figure C).

Figure C

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You tin present fine-tune the summary. Turn connected the power for Show Next Summary if you privation to spot the adjacent summary earlier the scheduled time. Swipe down the surface to adhd much apps to the summary screen. Tap the A to Z heading to spot your installed apps successful alphabetical bid (Figure D).

Figure D

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Go backmost to the main Notifications settings screen. Tap the Show Previews option. The Previews diagnostic displays specified contented arsenic substance from Messages and Mail and invitation details from Calendar. To spot these previews, alteration the mounting to Always oregon When Unlocked. Go backmost to the erstwhile surface and pat the enactment for Screen Sharing. Here, you tin let notifications to look adjacent erstwhile you're utilizing SharePlay oregon Screen Mirroring (Figure E).

Figure E

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When the scheduled clip arrives, the Notifications Summary surface becomes accessible. After accessing the screen, swipe up connected it to presumption your notifications. Tap connected immoderate notifications grouped from the aforesaid app to spot them each (Figure F).

Figure F

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