Notifications alert you to many things on your iPhone and iPad, including incoming messages, new emails, and calendar events. You can set up and/or change group notifications and settings.
Change How App Alerts are Grouped Together
To control whether alerts stack by app or appear automatically, modify the app’s internal notification properties:
- Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap Notifications.
- Scroll down and tap the specific app you want to organize (e.g., Messages, Mail).
- Scroll to the bottom and tap Notification Grouping.
- Choose one of the three grouping styles:
- Automatic: Your device intelligently groups notifications based on organizing criteria or threads.
- By App: All incoming alerts from that single application are gathered into one single stack.
- Off: Disables grouping so every single notification appears individually
Silence a Specific Group Chat (Messages / WhatsApp)
If you are trying to mute a noisy text or chat thread instead of changing system grouping, you can do it right from your messaging app:
- Open the Messages app (or your preferred chat app like WhatsApp).
- Locate the active group conversation.
- Swipe left across the group thread in your main conversation list.
- Tap the Options menu (or the purple/blue bell icon) and select Hide Alerts.
