After set up you’ll be guided to your notifications feed, where your personalised alerts sit. The more Stations you select, the more notifications you’ll receive. Then you’ll need to select at least three stations to get started. Once you’ve downloaded the app, you’ll need to log in to your Facebook account. Users will also be able to Save notifications, (which will rest in a dedicated section in the app), Share or even delete them by swiping left on the alert and tapping the option of their choice It can sit there harmlessly on your lockscreen until you’re ready to deal with it, while swiping right will unlock the content within the Notify app itself. Once Notify…erm… notifies you, there are several ways you can interact with the alert. With Bleacher Report, for example, you’ll be able to tailor those notifications for specific sports, while there are individual Stations for news, rumours, highlights, trending items and fantasy sports. For example, if you’re in to sports, you’ll be able to subscribe feeds from: Bleacher Report, Fox, CBS, Sports Illustrated and Sporting News. There’s already loads of high profile content providers available to select from a wide range of categories. The Notify app is made up of dozens Stations, which users request to receive notifications from. It’s up to the users to select which of these so-called ‘Stations’ they’d like to hear from. Early reports suggested the app would be very much focused on breaking news alerts, but Notify already has a much wider scope.Īs well as breaking news, categories include sports, daily weather alerts, the latest movie trailers from Fandango, clips from providers like Comedy Central, the latest local deals from Groupon, as well as fashion and celebrity gossip news from the likes of Vogue. The basic idea behind Notify is to encourage app users subscribe to alerts on practically everything they’re interested in. So, how does it work? Is it any good? What are some of the pitfalls? How does it stand up against the rivals? And when will everyone be able to use it? Get comfy, we’re about to explain it all… The free Facebook Notify application, which has already rolled out to iOS users in the United States, will immediately rival Twitter’s new Moments tab, the Apple News app in iOS 9 and standalone aggregation apps like Flipboard.įacebook has reached accords with huge range of high profile media and content partners to bring their push their content through Notify. Read on to see what Facebook has in store as it seeks to bring all of your app alerts under one roof. Facebook has announced Notify, a standalone mobile app that will deliver breaking news alerts, daily weather forecasts, movie trailers and much more to the user’s lock screen.
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