Phone notifications

Kinnomy can tap you on the shoulder when something needs you: a chore due today, a medicine dose, your turn to drive, an @mention. Notifications reach your phone or computer even when the app is closed.

1. Open Settings, then Notifications.
2. Choose Turn on for this device. Your browser asks for permission; say yes.
3. Press Send a test to check that it works.

Each phone, tablet or computer is turned on separately. The list of devices shows every one you have added, and you can remove any of them.

Add Kinnomy to your Home Screen first: open it in Safari, tap the Share button, choose Add to Home Screen, then open Kinnomy from its new icon and turn notifications on there. This needs iOS 16.4 or newer.

Each of these has its own switch:

• reminders, at their time,
• appointments and events, before they start,
• bills due tomorrow,
• chores, tasks and pet care due today that are yours,
• medicine doses and refills, for the person and the people who look after them,
• carpool: the driver hears about it 60 minutes before,
• @mentions in Talk, right away (every message is off unless you turn it on),
• reward and allowance requests, for the adults,
• pantry items that expire tomorrow,
• the Brain’s most important insights, once a day,
• a subscribed calendar that keeps failing, for the owner.

Quiet hours are on from 9:30 PM to 7 AM to start with, and you can change or turn them off. Anything due during quiet hours arrives when they end. Medicine doses are the exception: they still arrive on time.

• Full: the notification says what it is about.
• Private: it only says “A reminder from Kinnomy” until you open it.

Medicines always show as “Time for a medicine” on the lock screen unless you turn on medicine details.

Notifications go through the push service your browser uses: Apple, Google, Mozilla or Microsoft. Kinnomy encrypts each one before it leaves our server, so those services only see encrypted content.

Notifications can be late or missed. A phone’s battery saver, do not disturb, a closed browser on some computers or no connection can hold them back. Do not rely on them alone for anything critical. Email digests keep working either way.

Phone notifications are on every plan, including Free.