Notifications & Alerts

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• View notifications
• Access and edit notification settings
• Edit notifications for an individual app
• Turn Do Not Disturb on or off
• Turn government alerts on or off
• Select notification grouping

View notifications

To view recent notifications, swipe down from the top of the screen to access the Notification Center.

Access and edit notification settings

1. To access notification settings, from the home screen select the  Settings app.

2. Select Notifications, then adjust settings as desired.

Edit notifications for an individual app

1. To change the notification setting for an individual app, select the desired app. Select the  Allow Notifications switch to turn app notifications on or off.



3. To edit the Sound notifications for the individual app, select Sounds then select the desired option.



4. Select the  Badges switch to enable or disable app badges.

Turn Do Not Disturb on or off

1. From the Settings screen, scroll to and select Focus. Select Do Not Disturb, then select the  Do Not Disturb switch to turn Do Not Disturb on or off.

Note: To quickly turn Do Not Disturb on or off, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access the Control Center > select Focus > select the  Do Not Disturb. When Do Not Disturb is enabled, calls and notifications will be silenced.



2. When Do Not Disturb is enabled, a Do Not Disturb notification will be displayed on the Lock screen.

Turn government alerts on or off

From the Settings screen, select Notifications then scroll to GOVERNMENT ALERTS. Select the switch next to the desired government alert to turn alerts on or off. 

Select notification grouping

From the desired app's Notifications settings screen, scroll to and select Notification Grouping. Select the desired option, then select the back arrow when finished.