Notifications & Alerts

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

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

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 notifications 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, scroll to and select the desired app. Edit notification settings as desired. Select the  Allow Notifications switch to turn app notifications on or off.



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



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

Enable 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.

Turn Do Not Disturb on or off

1. To quickly turn Do Not Disturb on or off, swipe down from the upper right corner of the screen to access the Control Center. Select Focus, then select Do Not Disturb. When Do Not Disturb is enabled, calls and notifications will be silenced.



2. To edit Do Not Disturb settings, from the Settings screen, select Focus > Do Not Disturb > edit settings as desired. 



3. When Do Not Disturb is enabled, the  Do Not Disturb icon will be displayed on the Lock screen, on the notification bar and in the Control Center.

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.