For notifications to be useful to us, it is important that we receive them at the right time. It is something that, due to the very nature of notifications, is not really possible, but what is possible is to configure our iPhone or iPad so that summarize certain notifications at certain times. This is exactly what allows us to do the notification summaries feature that arrived in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15.
Notifications adapted to our schedules
The idea of notification summaries is quite simple. As the various notifications arrive, the system will take care of seeing which application or service they come from and, depending on our configuration, will draw our attention or save the notification
The net result is that notifications that we deem less important or of a non-urgent nature can be grouped together in a summary containing them all and it only catches our attention at certain times of the day. So if, for example, we have some free time after lunch, we can schedule the summary of notifications for that time, with the peace of mind that throughout the morning we will only receive notifications the most relevant.
Configuring these notification summaries is very simple and we can do it on our iPhone or iPad. However, keep in mind that each device handles notifications individually, so if we want to have the same summary on all our devices, we will have to configure them manually. That said, the steps to follow are:
- We open the application Settings
- We entered Opinion.
- we touch Summary programmed.
- We activate Summary programmed.
Arrived here we will see that in the lower part appears Program where, through add summary, we can define how many we want to receive. Then, and individually, we can go set schedules where these summaries will be displayed.
Once done, we need to turn our attention to the section Apps in the overviewwell there it is we will decide which applications notifications should be retained until the next scheduled summary. To make our selection, we simply have to activate or deactivate the small slider to the right of each application.
Also note that we can sort this list both alphabetically and by the average number of daily notifications it sends us. A very useful option to see, quickly, where we will benefit the most of these scheduled summaries.
And nothing more. From here we will see that the notifications of the applications that we have chosen will not emit any sound, but will be collected in the summary. A summary to we can come anytimewhether or not it is the time of it, from the notification center.
With the amount of notifications we receive every day, features like these, in conjunction with focus modes, allow us to optimize our time and attention much better. It’s not about missing what a certain app tells us, it’s about your the notification does not interrupt our workflow and that we can look at it at a time that suits us. Exactly what notification summaries offer us.
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