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> This chapter's pages: https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/llms.txt

# Notifications

> Choose how each kind of Activity reaches you, by push, email or Slack.

Rally can tell you about anything in your **Activity** list:

- **Mentions.** Someone @mentions you in a Thread or a Breakout.
- **Added to a thread.** Someone adds you to a Thread or Breakout. (If you
  created it yourself, Rally assumes you already know.)
- **New threads.** Someone starts a Thread you can open.
- **New breakouts.** Someone starts a Breakout you can open.
- **Rally finished.** Rally finishes working in a Thread or Breakout you take
  part in.
- **Merges.** Someone merges a Breakout into a Thread you can open, or a
  Thread into a Channel you can see.

## Choosing how each one reaches you

Open **Settings → Notifications**. Under **Notify me about**, each kind has a
button for every way Rally can reach you. Click one to turn it on or off; a dark
button is on. Choose any mix, or none.

- **Push** alerts every Mac, iPhone and browser where you are signed in and
  have notifications on.
- **Email** comes from **Rally <notifications@rallywith.ai>** with an **Open in
  Rally** link. For a mention you can reply to post into the Thread, as
  [Email into Rally](https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/email-into-rally.md#replying-to-a-notification-email)
  explains.
- **Slack** is a direct message from the Rally app. It appears once Rally is
  [installed in your Slack workspace](https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/rally-in-slack.md) and you have linked
  your account with **Connect Rally**. Other messaging apps that can reach you
  appear here too.

With none chosen, that kind only shows in Activity and your
[daily digest](https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/the-digest.md). Nothing is sent another way instead.

When the window is narrow, each kind shows one button naming what is on, such
as **Push and Slack**. Click it for a list you can tick.

Your choices apply on every device in that Organization. By default, mentions
and additions come by push and Slack, and everything else by push.

Notification text is plain: formatting is removed and mentions appear as
**@Name**.

## Notifications on your Mac

Open **Settings → Notifications**. At the top, under **On this Mac**, one switch
turns alerts on this Mac on or off. It is on unless you turn it off, and your
choices under **Notify me about** still apply to your other devices.

- Alerts arrive even when Rally is closed.
- Click an alert and Rally opens the exact Thread or Breakout it is about.
- Alerts are grouped by Thread, with its Breakouts in the same group, so one
  busy Thread does not bury the rest.
- The first time, macOS asks whether Rally may send notifications. If you said
  no, the settings page says **Notifications are turned off in macOS.** with an
  **Open System Settings** button to change your mind.

> [!NOTE]
> The macOS permission prompt, and a few other system messages, may still say
> "workspace". That is Rally's old word for an Organization.

If you cannot find **Notifications** in Settings at all, notifications have not
been switched on for your account yet. Your teammates will have to keep
mentioning you the old-fashioned way, loudly, across the office.

### The number on the app icon

Rally's icon in the Dock carries a badge: the same number as the **Threads**
button in the sidebar, counting the Threads in your Organization that are
waiting on you, plus any requests to join that you can approve. Each Thread
counts once, however many messages it has. If you belong to several Organizations, the badge
shows the count for whichever one notified you most recently, not a total.

## Notifications on your iPhone

The [iPhone app](https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/rally-on-iphone.md) sends the same alerts. Tap your avatar
at the top left of the **Threads** tab to open Settings, and use **Notify me on
this iPhone about mentions and additions** under **Notifications**. Tap an alert
and the app opens that Thread or Breakout.

If you turned notifications off for Rally in iOS, the switch says
**Notifications are turned off in iOS Settings.** with an **Open Settings**
button.

## The small print

- Turning the switch off, or refusing permission, takes that device off the
  list. Rally does not send an email instead unless you chose email.
- Signing out of Rally on a Mac stops notifications to that Mac.
- If your device is off or offline, Apple holds alerts for up to 24 hours.
- Now and then the same alert can arrive twice. Rally would rather tell you
  twice than not at all.

## Notifications and the digest

Notifications are for the moment something happens. The
[daily digest](https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/the-digest.md), on the next page, lists whatever is still
unread at the start and end of your day. Most people keep both: notifications
for "come here now" and the digest for "here is what you have not looked at".