How to stop push notifications on iphone

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Apple sends push notifications advertising its services and other Apple-related announcements to your phone. You might have seen them: they advertise new iPhones, Apple Arcade and more. They're easy to turn off if you don't want them, but you need to know where to look.

Apple uses these alerts to send you announcements, recommendations, updates and special offers for the company's services. As Apple develops its growing services business, garnering new subscribers to these services, and keeping people using iPhones, will become more important for the company.

For example, last year Apple sent notifications about new iPhones and payment plans. Earlier this year, it sent notifications to iPhones advertising a three-month free Apple Music trial for lapsed subscribers. Most recently, In December, some Apple Arcade subscribers received a push notification about "Ultimate Rivals," a new game that had been added to the Apple Arcade subscription.

It can be a little much for users who don't want these notifications.

Appleprovides tools to limit and control the alerts iPhones receive from third party applications. Apple's guidelines even strongly discourage push notifications for "advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes." Promotional push notifications are permitted, and if app makers are thoughtful about what they push, they can send marketing push notifications, CNBC reported in June.

Here's what you do to turn them off:

• Open Settings.
• Tap your name at the top of the screen.
• Choose "Name, Phone Numbers, Email"
• Scroll down and turn off the toggles for "Apps," "Announcements" and "Apple News Updates."

There's an option to turn off announcements and special offers from Apple hidden in settings.

That's it. Now you shouldn't receive notifications for new Apple products and services if you don't want them.

While Push Notifications are designed to keep you updated, they can be annoying and distract you from whatever you are up to on your iPhone. Hence, we are providing below the steps to disable or Turn Off Push Notifications on iPhone or iPad.

Turn OFF Push Notifications on iPhone

Push Notifications on iPhone and iPad appear in the form of banners appearing at the top of the screen, each time you receive a notification.

In general, push notifications on iOS devices can be classified into two types – Temporary and persistent.

• Temporary: These type of Push Notifications appear momentarily at the top of the screen and then disappear after about 3-4 seconds.
• Persistent: These type of Push Notifications remain on your screen and do not go away, until you interact with the notification.

While Push Notifications can be useful, they can sometimes be very annoying, making users look for a way to somehow Disable or Turn Off Push Notifications on iPhone.

Turn Off Push Notifications For Apps on iPhone or iPad

In case there are only certain Apps on your iPhone that bother you with unnecessary Push Notifications, you can follow the steps below to Turn OFF Push Notifications for such Apps on your iPhone or iPad.

1. Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad.

2. On the Settings screen, tap on Notifications.

3. On the Notifications screen, scroll down and tap on the app for which you want to Turn Off push Notifications on iPhone or iPad.

4. On the next screen, scroll down and toggle OFF the option for Show as banners located under Alerts section.

From now on, you will no longer be bothered by Push Notifications from this particular App.

In case there are more such busy Apps, you can Disable or Turn OFF Push Notifications for such Apps by repeating the above steps.

Turn Off Push Notifications On iPhone For all Apps

Unfortunately, there is really no option to Turn OFF Push Notifications on iPhone for all Apps. The only way to Turn Off Push Notifications on iPhone for all the Apps is to enable Do Not Disturb Mode on your device.

1. Open the Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen on your iPhone or iPad.

Note: In case you are using iPhone X, you will need to swipe down from the upper right side of your screen to launch Control Center.

2. Next, tap on the Do Not Disturb icon located in Control Center (See image bellow)

Note: Do Not Disturb Mode turns OFF all forms of Notifications and Alerts on your iPhone. Hence, make sure that you Disable Do Not Disturb Mode, as soon as you are done with your busy phase.

Change Push Notification Type on iPhone or iPad

Another way of dealing with Push Notifications on iPhone is to change the type of Push Notifications on your device, instead of completely disabling push notifications on your iPhone or iPad.

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