You certainly can. When iOS 15 is released, I think you'll find the various focus options to be very helpful in this regard. Until then, however, the best way to manage notifications is to have them delivered quietly. Do this by going into setings and into notifications. For each app, you can set how you want the notifications to be dealt with. To have the notifications delivered quietly, make certain that the only option selected is to have them allowed in the notification centre. Deselect banners, sounds and badges. This way, they'll arrive silently and won't interrupt you. For more time critical stuff, use the sounds, banners and badges as seems best to you. It's a somewhat tedious approach but you only have to set things up once and then change as your circumstances do. Again, when iOS 15 is released, there'll be far more control as well as notification summaries which will help tremendously. I currently have the majority of my apps deliver notifications quietly so I can go into the notifications centre on my own time and look through them. That means that I don't always find out about news stories or tweets right away. However, for things like messages, phone calls, etc, I have those sorts of things using banners and sounds. I don't make much use of the badges.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 9:53 AM Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote: > At one time, I had most notifications turned off - went into notifications > in Settings and turned off the ones I wanted off. I have since restored a > couple of them, but by no means, all of them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of martin nelson > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 7:39 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: How to quiet notifications > > Hello; I’m wondering if there’s a way to quite notifications other than > turning on do not disturb. They can be very bothersome when one is working > on other applications in the iPhone. Thank you very much. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/8A93ADD8-C788-4F54-B52F-4420653F4B6D%40gmail.com > . > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/021c01d7815c%246f5402b0%244dfc0810%24%40windstream.net > . > -- Michael Feir Author of Personal Power; The iOS Edition http://michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2020/04/personal-power-ios-edition.html?m=1 Twitter: mfeir Skype: michael-feir Check out my blog at: http://www.michaelfeir.blogspot.ca -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/CAE8cCzq_tj%2B1%2Ba2NAoQPou5t7AdQ%2B8%3Dcy0YG-zu6k_kUPsoc7A%40mail.gmail.com.