How to show notifications on iPhone screen?

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How to show notifications on iPhone screen?

Apologies for what sounds like a stupid question, but I'm genuinely having trouble with it. I keep accidentally discovering that I received app notifications days previously, but because the default tone is usually inaudible and nothing shows on the phone screen, I only find them by accidentally opening the Notification Centre. It would be useful to be able to hear them arriving in the first place and to have a flag on the screen, otherwise there's not much point setting them.

The notifications are supposedly set in the Control Centre to show as a list, but they never appear on the screen, only the Notification Centre (which for some reason is hidden, so you have to remember to check it manually). Nor does it appear possible to change the notification tone from an apologetic "ching" on a mouse's triangle, only audible in conditions of total silence, to something a bit more prominent.

I often receive two-factor ID codes from financial institutions, so obviously I can't allow message previews to be shown on the Lock Screen—that would mean any fraudster who stole my bank cards and phone could easily empty my accounts without needing to be able to unlock the phone or work out my PIN numbers. Is this potentially the cause of the problem? The phone is set to show message previews once it's unlocked, but they still don't appear on the screen.

I'm sure this must be something childishly simple, but I can't find my way round it.

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Posted on Mar 5, 2023 4:43 AM

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SravanKrA

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Mar 5, 2023 7:50 AM in response to iKittyp

Have you enabled Scheduled Summary?

Settings > Notifications > [Select the App that you are having trouble receiving immediate notifications]

See the pic below for a few examples. Please select immediate delivery.

Go to Settings and tap Notifications. Select an app under Notification Style. Under Alerts, choose the alert style that you want. If you turn on Allow Notifications, choose when you want the notifications delivered — immediately or in the scheduled notification summary.

Use notifications on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Change notification settings on iPhone

Go to Settings > Notifications.
To schedule a notifications summary, tap Scheduled Summary, then turn on Scheduled Summary. ...
To choose when you want most notification previews to appear, tap Show Previews, select an option—Always, When Unlocked, or Never—then tap.

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Change notification settings on iPhone - Apple Support (IN)

You can allow access to Notification Center on the Lock Screen. Go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode (on an iPhone with Face ID) or Touch ID & Passcode (on other iPhone models). Enter your passcode. Scroll down and turn on Notification Center (below Allow Access When Locked).

View and respond to notifications on iPhone - Apple Support (IN)

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iKittyp Author

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Mar 5, 2023 9:12 AM in response to SravanKrA

Thank you so much for your very comprehensive reply!

I don't have Scheduled Summary enabled, as I always want things to come through immediately (I have a very vulnerable relative, so notifications are never turned off).

The apps are set up to send Time Sensitive notifications, which should be delivered immediately. These are the settings for the app from which I most recently missed an important notification:

I imagine that this does send me immediate notifications, and that they do appear on the screen. Trouble is that I can't hear the alert if I'm outdoors or there's conversation going on, so I don't look at the phone. I always hear messages coming in, and that's ideally how I'd like to set up app alerts that I need to know about straight away, not hours later on a schedule.

I do have the Notification Centre available from the Lock Screen, but again, I would need know that I should check it. I've gone through every setting, but the apps themselves (which are basic ones made by small-scale developers) don't offer alert sound customisation, and nor does the operating system. It seems bizarre that if iOS can only offer one pre-set sound, Apple would choose a single "ting" which is so high pitched that some people over about 60 would struggle to hear it at all, and which doesn't repeat. The classic text alert might sound creakingly old-hat, but at least it's audible and it sounds twice.

Might I have missed a way to customise the sound, though?

Meantime, thanks again, I have looked through all the pages you suggested.

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