While not all notifications I receive are urgent, I prefer tracking each one to stay informed. Important alerts grab my attention immediately, but others often slip my mind. Returning to non-urgent alerts later, I’m faced with a daunting pile. Thankfully, iOS 15 introduces the Notification Summary feature to manage less important alerts. Here’s how to enable/disable it on your iPhone.
Enabling/Disabling Notification Summary in iOS 15 on iPhone
Before explaining how to enable or disable this feature, let’s explore its benefits and reasons for activation.
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Understanding Notification Summary: Simplifying Your Alerts
Notification Summary streamlines non-urgent alerts for easy management. When activated, it consolidates less crucial notifications, delivering them in a tidy package at your convenience.
Customize your summary by selecting preferred apps. Notification Summary intuitively prioritizes apps based on their daily notification frequency, simplifying the process of choosing essential ones to monitor. Once chosen, set your preferred time to receive the summary, ensuring effortless tracking of non-urgent alerts.
Calls, messages, and time-sensitive notifications will be delivered immediately even for apps in the notification summary.
Enable Notification Summary on iPhone
- Launch the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Choose “Notifications“.
3. Select the “Scheduled Summary” option.
4. Toggle the switch next to “Scheduled Summary” to enable the feature.
5. Tap on “Continue“, and then choose apps for your summary. Tap on “Add [x] Apps” once you are done.
6. Set a schedule for your notification summary. You can add multiple summaries, such as three times a day: morning, afternoon, and evening. To schedule, tap “Add Summary” and select your preferred time.
7. Once you’ve customized the schedule, tap “Turn on Notification Summary” at the bottom.
That’s it! You’ve successfully created a customized Notification Summary on iOS 15. Moving forward, iOS 15 will send you a bundle of non-urgent notifications at your chosen time. Additionally, you can preview scheduled summaries in the Notification Center.
Customize Notification Summary on iPhone
iOS 15 provides complete control over apps in the Notification Summary. You can allow or disallow alerts from specific apps to avoid clutter. Here’s how:
1. Tap “Apps in Summary“.
2. Toggle specific apps on or off.
Adjust Notification Summary Frequency
- Go to Settings app -> Notifications ->Scheduled Summary.
2. Tap “Deliver Summary”.
3. Choose preferred frequency, from once to twelve times daily.
Disable Notification Summary on iOS 15
To stop receiving less important notifications, turn off Notification Summary in settings.
- Go to Settings -> Notifications -> Scheduled Summary.
2. Toggle off “Scheduled Summary“.
Use Notification Summary for a Clutter-Free Experience
That’s it! Enable and use Notification Summary in iOS 15 to manage less important notifications easily. iOS 15 brings many new features, including watching movies together via FaceTime SharePlay, making FaceTime calls to Android, blurring backgrounds in FaceTime video calls, and more.
What’s your favorite iOS 15 feature and why? Share in the comments below.
Pritam Chopra is a seasoned IT professional and a passionate blogger hailing from the dynamic realm of technology. With an insatiable curiosity for all things tech-related, Pritam has dedicated himself to exploring and unraveling the intricacies of the digital world.
