IOS 15 is very chatty with notifications, is there anything I can do?

By Brad, 8 November, 2021

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iOS and iPadOS

I'm signed into youtube on ios and have noticed that every time someone uploads or comments voiceover let's me know. The thing is; I don't want it to.

From what I understand in earlier versions of IOS voiceover/youtube notified you but only if you unmuted the phone, now it notifies me every time.

I know I can turn off notifications, in youtube but I don't want that either.

I guess what I'm asking for can't be done but it would be nice if the phone could let me know once a day if the people I follow have updated instead of throughout the day, let's say I set this thing to 10 at night and that's it, but like I said; I don't think that can be done.

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By Jason White on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 03:27

Your best option would be to work with the focus settings of iOS 15. Providing a summary of notifications rather than each notification individually is among its features.

By Yvonnezed on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 03:27

The first thing I'd test is just using scheduled notification summaries without messing with Focus modes at all. It wouldn't be Youtube specific, it says you'll get all non-urgent notifications on a schedule. I actually haven't used it, but it's worth testing, and it's under notifications in Settings.

To do it using Focus modes, and again, I don't have a lot of experience myself, you'd have to create a focus mode that has all notifications enabled except youTube. The problem there is that I think, and I'm not sure, apps default to off when you're creating a focus mode, so you'd have to go through all your apps you want notifications from and turn them on, which might be a bit tedious.

By Brad on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 03:27

I'll look into it.

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 03:27

Here's something you might want to look at.

I've noticed that there's 3 settings for notifications. Show on lock screen, show in notifications center, and show as banner.

Go into settings, notifications, YouTube, and then unselect the setting that says show as banner. I've had to deselect this setting for a few apps, because I've found that for some reason banners were selected by default. But, if the do the steps above, and then go to alerts heading, you'll find the setting you'll want to change.

It's tedious because you've got to do this with every app you have notifications on for, and toggle it off.
But, it sounds as if that's what's happening. As soon as I turned off banners, VoiceOver got a lot less chatty when it came to notifications. Hope this helps.

By Jo Billard on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 03:27

Notification summary. You can set it up to receive a couple ofnotification summaries a day, and the phone won't even make a sound when they come in. You go to settings, notifications, and I think you should find it there. It has a schedule that you can adjust, and even add more, and you can select all the apps you want.