How to Manage Wispr Flow Notifications on iOS

Last updated: October 7, 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

  1. Open your iPhone's Settings app.

  2. Go to Apps → Wispr Flow → Notifications.

  3. Turn Allow Notifications on or off. The same screen holds the sound and presentation options.

Change notifications from Flow

The Push Notifications row at Wispr Flow → Settings mirrors your iPhone permission and refreshes when you open Flow Settings or return to the app. Turn the switch on or off, then complete the permission dialog.

If iOS has never asked, turning it on requests alerts, badges and sounds. Turning it off — or turning it on after denying permission — opens iPhone Settings, where you finish the change with Allow Notifications.

Reminders and saved-dictation alerts

Complete setup in Wispr Flow can arrive about 10 seconds after you leave Flow to install its keyboard in iOS Settings, quietly and without a permission prompt if iOS allows it; returning to Flow cancels it.

Alerts for interrupted, time-limited or failed dictations need notification permission and play an interruption sound when a dictation is saved to history without being pasted.

  • Interrupted or time-limited: tap to open history and automatically copy that transcript.

  • Failed: tap to open history and automatically retry that recording. The title includes the duration, such as “Your 1:23 dictation is saved”, or “Your dictation is saved” if unavailable.

Control the cards inside the keyboard

Keyboard cards need no iOS notification permission, so turning off Push Notifications does not hide them. Words-remaining, 500-word milestone, rating and referral cards begin after at least three successful dictations.

Note: If microphone permission or Full Access is missing, the menu opens a permission message instead. Follow “Handle setup and error messages” below.

  1. Tap the keyboard’s menu icon to open the panel; a badge marks unread cards.

  2. Dismiss each card with its own dismissal control, where available.

Close the panel by swiping down, tapping its X, tapping the keyboard underneath, or tapping the menu icon again; a short drag leaves it open, and hiding the keyboard also closes it. Closing the panel does not dismiss its cards.

Card

Dismissal

Loving Flow?

Choose No, thanks to dismiss this App Store rating request permanently.

500-word milestone / stats

Dismissing the milestone stops its referral invitation returning later; the stats-unlocked card disappears after you see it.

Referral reward

See rewards or closing the card removes the earned-reward notice permanently.

Words left this week

Choose No, thanks to keep it dismissed; home-screen limit cards cannot be dismissed.

Why a card returns or never appears

Within 500–599 lifetime words, closing only the referral invitation paired with the milestone lets it return while the milestone stays undismissed. Separate dictation-limit messages can also return at new thresholds.

Referral-reward cards show only earned referral rewards, and only the first pending one. They are hidden for users eligible for the free student plan and for active or trialing Business subscribers.

Handle setup and error messages

These full-screen keyboard messages are separate from panel cards.

Note: Close them with the top-left X or a downward swipe; if a short swipe leaves one open, swipe farther. Dismissing a message does not grant a missing permission.

“Almost there!”: Full Access

This message asks for keyboard Full Access.

  1. Choose Finish setup. On iOS 26 and later this opens the main iPhone Settings screen.

  2. Allow Full Access for Flow in your iPhone’s Keyboard Settings.

“We can’t hear you”: Microphone access

Choosing Go to Settings opens Settings; it does not grant microphone permission by itself.

  1. Choose Go to Settings.

  2. Turn on Microphone for Flow in iPhone Settings.

You do not need to reopen Flow before returning to the keyboard.

Transcription error

The wording varies for recording, transcription, network, microphone-in-use, permission and processing problems.

  1. Follow the message’s instruction, such as checking your connection or whether another app is using the microphone.

  2. Tap Retry to restart dictation automatically; Flow may open with recording started.

Once setup is complete with Full Access, a new failure can show this message again outside Flow when no other dialog or inline error is showing.

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. Manage them in iPhone Settings → Apps → Wispr Flow → Live Activities. The Allow Live Activities row in Flow Settings mirrors that setting and opens iPhone Settings rather than changing permission inside Flow.

Keyboard cards are silent. Dictation sounds have their own switch at Wispr Flow → Settings → Interaction sounds, in the Audio section; it is on by default and controls the start, stop and cancel cues.

Still stuck?

Contact support with your iPhone model, the settings or dismissal controls you tried, and a screenshot or the exact wording of the message if:

  • A card you dismissed keeps returning.

  • Notifications you allowed never arrive.