Managing notifications

Notifications alert you to many things on your iPad, including incoming messages, new emails, and calendar events. Notifications work slightly differently for each app, but they're easy to customize. In this lesson, we'll show you how to modify the Notification Center and choose which apps will appear there.

The Notification Center

The Notification Center keeps all of your notifications in one place. Simply swipe down from the top of the screen to open it at any time, even from the lock screen.

By default, the Notification Center shows you your Recent alerts, starting with your newest at the top. From the Recent notifications screen, you can swipe right to access notifications for Today . This includes any events on your calendar, top new stories, weather, and more.

Clearing notifications

Notifications will remain in the Notification Center until they are dismissed, or cleared. To clear a notification, tap the X , then press Clear .

Notifications cannot be cleared from the Today view.

Customizing the Notification Center

It's easy to customize the Notification Center to suit your needs. For example, you can turn certain views on and off and select which apps to include in the Notification Center. You can also customize other notifications for individual apps, like sounds and badges.

To customize the Notification Center:

1. Tap the Settings icon on your Home screen.
2. Tap Notifications in the left pane.
   
3. From here, you can customize which apps will appear in the Notification Center. Tap the app you'd like to customize. In our example, we'll choose Facebook.
4. From here, you can deselect Show in Notification Center to choose whether you'd like notifications from this app to appear in the Notification Center.
5. This app's notifications will no longer appear in the Notification Center. There are also several other available options, which are described in more detail below.

Click the buttons in the interactive below to learn more about setting app notifications.

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Allow Notifications

You can turn all notifications on or off using this control.

Alerts

Choose the desired alerts for the app. You can choose lock screen , notification center , and b anner alerts.

Sounds

You can turn sound notifications on or off , depending on your preference. If the app is especially important to you, sounds can help to get your attention quickly.

Badges

Turn this control on to see notifications as a badge on the app icon. These will appear as numbers in small red circles in the top-right corner of the app icon.

Show Previews

Turn on Show Previews to see the content of the notification. If turned off, you'll still receive notifications but won't be able to read the content while the iPad is locked.

Notification Grouping

Turn notification grouping on to have all of your notifications grouped by app.