Disclaimer: if this has already been mentioned by somebody else, feel free to remove this.
A little while ago I was responding to a post on here regarding notifications for Outlook. During my exploration of the notification settings for Outlook, I inadvertently adjusted the group in behavior for Outlook notifications. Typically notification grouping are set to automatic by default. This is true for pretty much every single app on your iPhone. I have never really thought about changing these before, but as I said I was exploring the settings trying to figure something out, and I set groupings to off.
I sent myself a series of emails to test out the notifications based on my settings, and lo and behold on the lock screen a notification center, I had a steady vertical list of notifications for every single email (six) that I had sent to myself.
So, for those of you who do not like your notifications group together, or just want something a little different, possibly a little older, you can go into your notifications for all of your apps, and just turn grouping to off. This means that all of your notifications for that particular app will be individual, and not group together whatsoever. This can potentially lead to an extremely long laundry list of notifications on certain applications. InstaCart comes to mind, for example.
Still, I know people have asked about having notifications as a list, or single column view, and this seems to be the way to do it.
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Comments
Thanks for this!
There are some notifications, like texts and emails, that I don't want to be grouped. Off to check this out!
What I'd like to know is0
How does one turn off notifications in their entirety? I don't want notifications. I've never used them. They've only ever gotten in my way. Is there some way to turn off the feature altogether?
Yup, go ,into settings, notifications,
Yes, there is a way to turn this off completely. If you go into settings, notifications, you have several options you can completely disable notifications, or you can do it on a app by app basis.
Notification summary
Alternatively, you can set up your notifications to be delivered as a scheduled summary. Not sure how well this works out, how detailed it is, or how often you get the summary, but it is an option.
Kind of want the opposite of this.
For me, apps such as YouTube and news apps will group their notifications based on the channel/news source.
What I would like is to have one single big group of all notifications from a single app that I can expand if I want to see all the notifications.
I think it would be easier than having multiple groups from the same app.
Levi Gobin
To get what you want, should be as simple as doing my steps above, only instead of turning off the grouping, set it to, "By App".
Outlook notifications on Locked Screen?
I know this is a personal preference but I would not like to have Outlook notifications on the locked screen especially if it has priviews selected. People can read my mail if I am not around and I know I can use screen curtain but yet. For outlook I have kept only badges and that works best for me, no sounds, no waking up the locked screen and mostly I check mail when I want to
turning off grouping for all apps
Is this possible without going into each app?
Not that I am aware of
Perhaps one day Apple will make a universal toggle for this.