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title: Push notifications
description: Get an alert on your phone or computer when an event arrives.
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Every event with `notify` set to `true` (the default) sends a push
notification to the members of its Organization who turned notifications on.
Set `notify: false` for routine events that shouldn't alert anyone.

## Turn notifications on

1. **Open Settings → Notifications**

    Notifications are set per device and browser, and per Organization.

2. **Enable notifications**

    Allow notifications when the browser asks. By default you get events from
    every Channel, including Channels created later. You can narrow that to
    specific Projects or Channels.

3. **Send a test notification**

    Check that it arrives, then send a real event.

On iPhone and iPad, add EmitKit to your Home Screen (Share → **Add to Home
Screen**) and open it from there before you turn notifications on. iOS only
delivers push notifications to installed web apps.

## What a notification shows

The title is the event's icon and title, for example `🚨 Checkout failed`. The
body is the event's description followed by its Channel and Project, such as
`#alerts · Web`. Opening the notification shows that Channel's events in the
dashboard.