Turn on notifications on iPhone
Notifications & alerts · iOS app · Last updated August 28, 2026
Quick answer
Push notifications are an iPhone feature. Open Settings → Alerts → Notifications, tap Enable notifications and allow the iOS prompt, then turn on Bet alerts under Settings → Alerts. iOS only ever asks once, and bet alerts and settlement notifications need a Plus or Pro plan.
The iPhone app is not on the App Store yet. It is built and this page describes how it works, but there is nothing to install today — everything here also works in the browser at dawbets.com, which you can add to your home screen from Safari's Share menu.
Turn notifications on
Everything here lives in the iPhone app under Settings → Alerts. Two separate switches have to be on before anything is delivered: iOS’s permission for DawBets, and the Notifications switch inside your DawBets account. Granting the iOS prompt on its own delivers nothing.
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Open Settings → Alerts → Notifications
If iOS has never asked you about DawBets, the top section of this screen ends with an Enable notifications button.
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Tap Enable notifications and allow the iOS prompt
Allowing it also flips your account’s Notifications switch on, so you do not have to hunt for it separately.
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Read the footer under the Notifications switch
It states the real position — including "iOS is blocking them on this device" when the OS permission is off while your account switch is on.
iOS only asks once
If you tapped Don’t Allow, the app cannot show that dialog again. The only way back is iOS Settings → DawBets → Notifications. Nothing you configured was lost: your alert rules stay saved while delivery is blocked, and resume the moment the switch goes back on.
The first time you sign in on iPhone you get a one-time Never miss an edge sheet before the iOS dialog. Skipping it does not end things — DawBets falls back to quiet delivery, where notifications land in Notification Center with nothing on your Lock Screen and no sound. The Notifications screen then offers Turn on Lock Screen alerts to upgrade that.
Switch on bet alerts
A bet alert fires when a bet appears priced better than it is worth — positive expected value, or EV. They have their own screen: Settings → Alerts → Bet alerts. Turn on the Bet alerts switch, then open Bet alert rules to set your minimum EV, your daily cap, and which sportsbooks, leagues, markets, teams and odds qualify.
Four things must all be true before one arrives:
- A Plus or Pro plan. The job that sends bet alerts skips free accounts outright, so no switch or rule has any effect until you upgrade or start a trial — see the pricing page.
- iOS permission for DawBets, from the prompt above.
- Your account’s Notifications switch, on the Notifications screen.
- The Bet alerts switch itself.
When one of those is missing, the Bet alerts screen names it at the top and the button underneath fixes that one thing. The rules door itself only appears on a Plus or Pro account with both switches on; when iOS is what is blocking you, the rules stay editable underneath and keep saving.
What each rule does, and why a bet you can see on the feed did not alert you, is in How bet alerts are chosen.
Settlement notifications and quiet hours
Settlement notifications tell you how your tracked bets landed. Switch them on at Settings → Alerts → Notifications → Notification types. That row only appears once the master Notifications switch is on and your plan is Plus or Pro — and the plan is checked again at send time, so a lapsed subscription stops them. What one says, and when nothing is sent, is in Settlement notifications.
Quiet hours, on the same screen, pauses delivery between a start and an end time read in your device’s time zone. Bet alerts inside the window are skipped and settlements are held until it ends — Quiet hours and daily alert limits explains why, and covers the daily cap on alerts.
Prove it is working
Near the bottom of the Notifications screen, Check delivery → Send test notification sends a real push to every device registered to your account and reports how many of them it reached. It works on every plan, free included.
The test is sent exactly the way a bet alert is — time-sensitive — so it also shows you whether alerts break through your Focus mode. Settlement notifications and trial reminders use the normal level and stay quiet under Focus and Do Not Disturb.
No registered devices?
Open the app while signed in — it re-registers the device on launch — then send the test again. A device belongs to one account at a time, so signing in as somebody else on the same phone hands the registration over to them.
One switch on that screen is not a notification at all: Daily Slate puts a Lock Screen card up for the day’s tracked bets and never buzzes. See Daily Slate on your Lock Screen.
On the web: Browser push is not switched on yet. The Push Notifications card in web Settings is badged Coming Soon, and no browser will ever ask you for permission — the iPhone app is the only place DawBets sends push today.
Heads up
An alert is a statement about a price, not a tip, and a price can move or vanish before you reach the book. Sports betting is 21+ and legal only in some states — never stake money you need. Responsible-gambling resources.
Common questions
I denied notifications by mistake — can the app ask again?
No. iOS asks once per install. Open iOS Settings → DawBets → Notifications and switch them on; DawBets re-checks when you come back and delivery resumes. Your saved alert rules were never cleared.
Will bet alerts interrupt a Focus mode?
Yes. Bet alerts are sent time-sensitive, so they can break through Focus and Do Not Disturb. Settlement notifications and trial reminders are not, and stay silent. You can change that for DawBets in your iOS Focus settings.
I allowed notifications but nothing ever arrives.
Check both switches under Settings → Alerts — the account’s Notifications switch and Bet alerts — then tap Send test notification. If the test lands but bet alerts never do, the account is almost certainly on the free tier.
Where is Send test notification?
Settings → Alerts → Notifications, in the Check delivery section near the bottom. It appears once notifications are on for your account and iOS is not blocking them, and it works on any plan.
Can I turn on notifications in my browser?
Not yet. Web push is unreleased: the card in web Settings says Coming Soon and no browser permission prompt exists. Push is iPhone-only for now.
Related help
How bet alerts are chosen
What triggers a high-EV bet alert, why you get one at a time, how your filters and threshold work, and why alerts fire on movers.
iOSWhy am I not getting bet alerts?
A checklist for silent alerts: your plan, iOS permission, the account switch, quiet hours, the daily cap, your minimum EV, and filters that match nothing.
iOSQuiet hours and daily alert limits
Stop overnight buzzing without losing your results: what quiet hours discard, what they hold until morning, and how the daily alert cap counts.
iOSSettlement notifications
How DawBets tells you a tracked bet won, lost or was refunded — individual alerts, roundups, quiet-hours holds, and when nothing is sent.
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