Notifications
The app tells you about four things and nothing else. There are no streaks, no “you haven’t posted in a while”, and no nudges to open it.
What you are told about
| When | What it says | Tapping it opens |
|---|---|---|
| Someone sends you a friend request | “<name> wants to be friends” | Their page, to say yes |
| Someone accepts yours | “<name> is now your friend” | Their page |
| Someone comments on a print you took | “<name> on your print” and the first line | The print |
| A new print lands on a shared roll you are on | “<name> · <roll>” and its caption | The print |
Prints to your own roll are nobody’s news and are not announced. Reactions and Seen by never notify anyone. Several notifications about the same roll or the same print stack together.
Notices from us
Now and then we post in the app’s channel — a drop, a change. These arrive as local notices, capped at three a day, and none are shown between 22:00 and 07:00 your local time; anything that would have landed overnight waits until seven. The cap and the quiet hours are not settings; they apply to everyone.
Permission
Why wasn't I asked at the start?
The app does not put up the permission prompt on first launch. It asks iOS for provisional delivery — quiet, into Notification Centre only, no banner, no sound — so the first notification you see is a real one, and you can keep or stop them from the notification itself. Opening the channel asks properly.
Turning them off
On your iPhone: Settings → Notifications → Probably Late. Turn off Allow Notifications, or keep them and turn off sounds and banners. The app follows whatever you choose there; there is no separate switch inside it. Notifications do not count against the three-a-day cap, which is only for notices from us.
Turning them back on
The same iOS screen. The app re-registers with the server every time it comes to the foreground, so once iOS allows them again they resume without anything to do in the app.
What a notification carries
A line of text and a link into the app — the print or the person it is about. To deliver it, your phone registers a push token (Apple’s address for your phone) with us, along with whether it is a TestFlight or App Store build; see What we keep. Signing out or deleting your account removes it.
Lock screen and widgets
The day’s polaroid can sit on your lock screen as a Live Activity for two hours after you take it, and on your home screen as a widget. Before you have taken one, the widget shows an empty dashed print that opens the camera. Both are drawn on your phone from what is already there and send nothing anywhere.
Not arriving?
See Troubleshooting: it is nearly always the iOS permission, Focus mode, or being signed out.