Mute Notifications for an Hour or for the Day

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Did you know you could mute individual notification temporarily on the iPhone? You can mute them for an hour or for the day! Just swipe left on a notification in the Notification Center, tap on Options, and set how long you want notifications from that app to be muted. See how to mute your notifications from individual app temporarily in this video for the iPhone.

Video TranscriptIn this video, we’re going to look at how it can mute notifications from a specific app temporarily. We can mute it for an hour or for the entire day. This was introduced with iOS 15. Let’s see how we mute notifications temporarily on the iPhone. Let’s go to my iPhone. So I have a few notifications.

Let’s go up to my Notification Center. I go to the upper left hand. corner, and all I have to do is just swipe down. I’m looking at my Notification Center here. Now, what we can do is mute these notifications temporarily.

So let’s say no longer wanted to receive any notifications from Apple TV. I want to mute them, maybe for the entire day. All I have to do is just swipe over to the left. We have some options here. We go over to Options and you’re going to see I’m able to mute this for an hour or mute it for the day. So let’s go ahead and mute this for the day. And now I will no longer receive any more notifications from Apple TV for the day. It’s muting them temporarily.

Let’s swipe up, let’s mute our App Store notifications for the next hour. All I have to do is just swipe over to the left. I go over to Options and then I’m mute for the hour. And now I will no longer receive any notifications from the App Store for the next hour. After that I will start receiving notifications once again.

So that’s how we can mute our notifications temporarily on the iPhone. All we have to do is just go to our Notification Center and we swipe over to the left on the notification that we want to mute. We go to Options, and then from there we can select how long we want to mute that notification. We can mute it for an hour or we can mute it for the day.

So that’s how we mute notifications on the iPhone.