If you are an iPhone user, surely you have ever heard of what push notifications are. And also, you may be wondering if you have them on your iPhone, where they are and how you can activate them. Therefore, in this post we explain everything you need to know about them, and how you can activate them in a very easy way.
Your iPhone has push notifications
Push notifications are a type of messages and alerts that we receive on our iPhone, and that are characterized by the fact that they reach us instantly, and instantly. For example, when someone sends us an email and it enters our tray, our iPhone will send us, if we have it configured, a push notification, just at the moment that email has entered us. But push notifications don’t just affect emails. But they are also available in all those applications that allow you to send instant notifications, such as live events.
And where is that section of push notifications? The truth is that, in the latest versions of iOS, Apple has stopped calling them “push notifications”, but the essence of how they work is the same. And the configuration, in the iPhone with iOS 16 is more sophisticated, if we compare it with previous versions of iOS. But that doesn’t mean it’s complicated.
To activate push notifications on the iPhone, we will have to go to Settings> Notifications. In that category of settings we will find several sections. The first of these is how these notifications will be displayed. With the notification area revamp, iPhone now allows us to view notifications as a number, as a grouped count, or as a list, with all notifications equally.
Regardless of how we want these notifications to be shown to us, the section that interests us is the list of apps that allow us to send notifications. Here we will have to select each application individually. And within each one, we will have several options available, some of which may change depending on the application. Common functions are:
- Allow notifications: this option allows the application to send us notifications. It is important to have this option activated if we want to receive push notifications.
- Prompt delivery: This feature is a must. In fact, it could be considered as one of the two functions that the iPhone has for us to receive push notifications. By activating this option, if the app allows the sending of instant information, the notifications will reach us at the time they occur.
- Scheduled summary: this function applies to all those notifications that we want to be shown at a specific time of day, and to all the apps that have been sending alerts, so that all the information reaches us at once.
If we have seen that the “immediate delivery” option is one of the basic ones to receive push notifications, the second option is only available in specific applications. This feature is called Important Notifications . If we activate it, we will receive the notification instantly and, in addition, it will remain on the screen for an hour, and it cannot be deleted. When does this happen? On plane tickets, for example. And even, in social media applications. It will depend on each application, which this configuration is available.