How to Manage Wispr Flow Notifications on iOS
Last updated: November 2, 2026
Available on: iPhone
If push alerts keep appearing, keyboard cards stay after you close them, or recording activity stays on your Lock Screen, manage each surface separately: iOS notifications, Flow keyboard cards, and Live Activities.
Turn push notifications on or off
Open your iPhone’s Settings app.
Go to Apps → Wispr Flow → Notifications.
Turn Allow Notifications on or off. The same screen holds sound and presentation options.
Change notifications from Flow
The Notifications row (“General, meeting reminders, and summary”) opens category controls, not a master switch.
Open Wispr Flow → Settings → Notifications in the General section.
Turn the categories you want on or off.
Only categories that apply to your account appear.
Category | Covers | Requires |
General | Announcements, updates, tips, and stats. | A signed-in account. |
Meeting reminders | Upcoming meeting reminders. | Notetaker enabled and reminders available. |
Summary | When a meeting summary is ready. | Summary notifications and Notetaker enabled for your account, with no signed HIPAA BAA. |
While iOS blocks delivery, every switch appears off regardless of saved choices. With delivery allowed, including quiet delivery, category changes save without a dialog. Turning a category off never opens Settings or requests permission.
Turning a category on before iOS has asked requests alerts, badges and sounds. If delivery is blocked and permission cannot be requested, it opens iPhone Settings instead; enable Allow Notifications there. Granting permission restores saved choices and enables the category you tried to turn on.
The “Notifications are off” or “Notifications are quiet” banner says “Turn them on to get alerts from Flow.” Choose Turn On when a prompt is possible; otherwise, use Open iOS Settings. No banner appears before permission is requested or when notifications are fully enabled.
Opening Notifications or returning to Flow refreshes iPhone permission without restarting. Opening Flow Settings also refreshes preferences changed on other devices. Switching accounts closes the Notifications screen.
Setup reminder
During separate dictation-only setup—not combined setup—“Complete your setup” / “Return to Wispr Flow to start dictating” can arrive about 10 seconds after you leave Flow to install its keyboard in iPhone Settings. It arrives quietly without a prompt only if iOS permits it; otherwise, it is skipped. Returning to Flow cancels the pending reminder.
Saved-dictation alerts
Saved-dictation alerts require full notification permission; the quiet-only permission used for setup reminders is insufficient. They fire only when the Flow keyboard is inactive: otherwise, text pastes or errors appear in the keyboard instead.
Interrupted or time-limited: “Your dictation was interrupted” or “Your dictation reached the time limit”, with “Tap to view your transcript”. Tapping opens history and automatically copies the transcript. These alerts exclude command-mode requests; the time-limit alert also excludes recordings you were ending yourself when the limit was reached.
Failed: “Your 1:23 dictation is saved”, or “Your dictation is saved” without a duration, with “Tap to retry”. Tapping opens history and automatically retries that saved recording. Only failed-dictation titles include duration.
Failed-dictation alerts fire once per dictation after a final transcription or network error. They are unavailable when your account prohibits local data storage because retry needs a saved recording.
Automatic copy and retry also work when launching a closed app or when the transcript is not yet loaded in history; each action runs once per transcript.
Saved-dictation alerts use an interruption sound outside Flow. While Flow is open, visible notifications use banners only, without sound or a notification-list entry, except meeting reminders, which use all three. Some reminders stay hidden while Flow is open.
Control the cards inside the keyboard
Keyboard cards are silent. They need no iOS notification permission, so turning notifications off does not hide them.
Note: Without microphone permission or keyboard Full Access, the menu opens a permission message instead. Use “Handle setup and error messages” below.
Tap the keyboard’s menu icon; opening the panel clears its unread badge, even without interacting with cards.
Dismiss each card with its own dismissal control, where available.
The panel shows one card at a time, then usage statistics when none remain. Position/total counters reflect cards present when the panel opened and exclude locked stats. Locked stats and the statistics view have no close control.
Close the panel with its X, a downward swipe, another menu tap, tapping the keyboard underneath, or hiding the keyboard. If a short swipe leaves it open, swipe farther. Closing preserves cards except stats-unlocked and Week-1 streak cards, which clear when they disappear.
Card | Dismissal |
Loving Flow? | No, thanks and Rate us 5 stars both dismiss this rating request permanently; the latter opens the App Store review page. |
500-word milestone | Closing it permanently dismisses it and prevents its paired referral invitation returning. |
Stats unlocked | Viewing it retires it; See my stats also opens stats and dismisses the card. |
Referral reward | Closing it or choosing See rewards permanently removes the notice; See rewards opens Referrals. |
Words left this week | No, thanks permanently dismisses it; Get unlimited access also dismisses it and opens Plan. |
Desktop / Week-1 streak | Explicit dismissal persists across keyboard sessions. |
Why a card returns or never appears
Words-remaining, 500-word milestone, rating and referral cards begin after at least three successful dictations.
Milestones: The milestone/referral pair appears only at 500–599 lifetime words; stats-unlocked appears only at 500–580. Passing those ranges without opening the panel means you will not see them later. Within 500–599 words, closing only the referral invitation lets it return while the milestone remains undismissed. Below 500 words, locked stats appears instead after the three-dictation requirement and retires automatically at 500.
Words remaining: This card requires Basic, no free-student-plan eligibility, and remaining weekly words at or below its threshold but above zero; it disappears at zero. Home-screen weekly-limit cards for these accounts cannot be dismissed. Separate limit messages can return at further usage thresholds; hard-limit messages can recur without a new threshold.
Referral rewards: Notices refresh at most once per calendar day while signed in; only the first pending earned reward appears. They exclude free-student-plan-eligible users and active or trialing Business subscribers. Missing custom text falls back to “🎉 You got a free month” and a “Pro applied from” line naming your friend. Dismissing one allows the next pending reward to appear later.
After setup, earning a new Week-1 streak day from the second completed day onward can open the panel automatically with haptic feedback.
Handle setup and error messages
Full-screen keyboard messages are separate from panel cards and inline error strips.
Note: Close full-screen messages with the top-left X or a downward swipe; swipe farther if a short swipe leaves one open. Dismissing a message does not grant a missing permission.
These dismissal controls also apply to newly granted or ended trials, weekly limits (including student messages), auto-switch-back disabled, offline dictation offers and the Notetaker introduction.
Finish setup and Go to Settings open iPhone Settings on iOS 26 or later when Full Access is missing; on earlier iOS releases or with Full Access granted, they open Flow Settings instead.
“Almost there!”: Full Access
This message requests keyboard Full Access when you tap dictation without it.
Choose Finish setup.
Allow Full Access for Flow in your iPhone’s Keyboard Settings.
“We can’t hear you”: Microphone access
Go to Settings opens settings; it does not grant microphone permission itself.
Choose Go to Settings.
Turn on Microphone for Flow in iPhone Settings.
After granting microphone access, you do not need to reopen Flow before returning to the keyboard.
Transcription error
Wording varies for recording, transcription, network, microphone-in-use, permission and processing problems.
Follow the message’s instruction, such as checking your connection or whether another app is using the microphone.
Tap Retry.
Retry starts dictation automatically: outside Flow, it opens Flow with recording started; inside Flow, recording restarts in place.
Only a new failure can reopen this message, outside Flow after setup with Full Access, when no dialog or inline error is showing.
For inline errors, generic and cancelled errors offer retry in the error menu; audio-capture and network errors do not.
After granting permissions, tap the keyboard menu again. If the panel opens instead of a permission message, access is restored.
Live Activities and dictation sounds
Live Activities show recording status and an elapsed timer on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Controls let you stop recording, start a note or save a note while recording it. The expanded view shows total words when not transcribing, plus “Saving note” and “Note saved” states.
Manage them in iPhone Settings → Apps → Wispr Flow → Live Activities. The Allow Live Activities row in Flow Settings opens iPhone Settings rather than changing permission itself; it reflects system changes without restarting Flow.
Dictation sounds have their own switch at Wispr Flow → Settings → Interaction sounds, in the Audio section. It is on by default; turning it off silences start and stop cues entirely. Cancelling uses the same stop cue, not a separate sound. These cues are separate from system notification sounds.
Still stuck?
Contact support with your iPhone model, the settings or dismissal controls you tried, and a screenshot or exact message wording if:
A card described above as permanently dismissed returns.
Allowed notifications never arrive despite meeting the relevant conditions above.