Available on: Mac, Windows, iOS (limited)
Wispr Flow groups notifications into categories — suggestions, announcements, milestones, and team updates — so you can mute what you don't need and keep what matters.
The Notifications section in Settings → System gives you four category toggles, each covering a related group of notifications. Turning off a category mutes all notifications within it. Critical notifications like billing alerts and error messages cannot be muted.
Use notification categories when you want to:
Mute tips and suggestions after you're comfortable with Flow
Turn off milestone celebrations while keeping feature announcements on
Manage team notifications separately from personal usage alerts
Each toggle in Settings → System → Notifications corresponds to one notification category. Changes take effect immediately. All four categories are enabled by default.
Suggestions: Tips about getting set up or improving how you use Flow.
Announcements: New features or capabilities. Includes a prompt to personalize your writing styles after your 10th dictation if you haven't completed personalization yet, with a follow-up reminder at least 1 day later (shown only once per day).
Milestones: Word-count milestones, streaks, and referral activity.
Team updates: Team invitations, join requests, and other team activity. Only visible to enterprise users.
Action button confirmation: Clicking an action button on any notification shows a brief ✓ checkmark, disables the button to prevent double-clicks, and automatically closes the notification shortly after.
Recover text after a long session: When a dictation session ends automatically after reaching the time limit, a notification appears with a "Recover text" button. You also receive a warning shortly before the limit is reached.
Shortcut names in notifications: Notifications that reference keyboard shortcuts display your actual configured shortcut instead of generic placeholder text.
Note: Notification preferences are saved locally on each device and do not sync — configure them separately on each machine.
Important: Critical notifications — including billing alerts and error messages — cannot be muted and always appear regardless of your category settings.
Muting tips after getting comfortable with Flow
Scenario: You've been using Flow for a few weeks and no longer need onboarding suggestions.
Action: Toggle off the Suggestions category in Settings → System → Notifications.
Result: Setup tips and usage suggestions stop appearing. Feature announcements and milestones remain active.
Hiding the writing style personalization banner
Scenario: A banner in the hub keeps prompting you to personalize your writing styles.
Action: Click "Start now" on the banner and complete at least the first step of the personalization flow.
Result: The banner no longer appears in the hub.
Why don't I see the Team updates category?
The Team updates category is only visible to enterprise account users. If your account is not part of an enterprise organization, this toggle does not appear.
Can I mute billing alerts or error messages?
No. Critical notifications always appear and cannot be turned off.
Does muting a category delete past notifications?
No. Muting a category only prevents new notifications from appearing. It does not remove notifications you've already received.
Can I mute individual notifications instead of an entire category?
No. Notification preferences are managed at the category level only.
Notification settings are stored locally and must be configured separately on each device.
The Team updates category is only visible to enterprise users.
Per-category toggles are not available on iOS. On iOS, a single Push Notifications toggle in Settings → General controls all push notifications.
On iOS, an "Allow Live Activities" toggle in Settings → General controls whether real-time Flow activity appears on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. This is separate from the Push Notifications toggle.
During onboarding, most notifications are suppressed regardless of your category settings. Only essential system notifications (such as permission alerts, microphone issues, and helper app errors) appear during this time. Normal notifications resume once onboarding is complete.