iPhone: Activate push notifications
If you want to keep your iPhone up to date, you have to activate push notifications. This allows apps to send you messages even though you haven't opened them. We'll show you how it's done.
Toggle push notifications on iPhone
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Below you will find the menu item "Messages".
- Scroll down until you get to the list of apps.
- Here you can go through each individual app and activate or deactivate the push notifications. To do this, click on an app and select the option "Banner" or "Notes" (see picture) under "Note style". After a short time, banners disappear from the display on their own and remain in the message center. You have to confirm notes to remove them.
- In addition, you can specify below whether tones and indicator symbols should be activated, the message is displayed in the message center and on the lock screen and the maximum number of messages that the app may send.
The practical tip refers to iOS 7 on the iPhone 4S. This practical tip shows you what you can do if the push notifications stop working.