# \[Feature Request\] Critical notifications **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Tags:** featurerequest\ **Created:** [September 8, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457 "2020-09-08T05:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Asterix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/asterix/32/45768_2.png) [@Asterix](https://community.homey.app/u/Asterix)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/21 "2025-04-23T14:07:40Z")
You got it ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/c/4c980f6d140f8c080af957d09055b2fb34be13ac.png) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Draper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jonathan_draper/32/33978_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Draper](https://community.homey.app/u/Jonathan_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/22 "2025-04-23T19:06:53Z")
Still doesn’t actually work though. ---
**Author:** ![Asterix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/asterix/32/45768_2.png) [@Asterix](https://community.homey.app/u/Asterix)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/23 "2025-04-23T20:42:08Z")
What doesn’t work? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Draper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jonathan_draper/32/33978_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Draper](https://community.homey.app/u/Jonathan_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/24 "2025-04-23T21:22:40Z")
Executing that card doesn’t send a critical notification. The Homey app doesn’t register for critical notifications with iOS as shown by my screen grabs a few posts above this. ---
**Author:** ![JPe4619](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jpe4619/32/9017_2.png) [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/25 "2025-04-23T23:03:37Z")
Your pictures are from the PushOver app, the working examples are from the Homey Push functions. ---
**Author:** ![Asterix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/asterix/32/45768_2.png) [@Asterix](https://community.homey.app/u/Asterix)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/26 "2025-04-24T04:42:30Z")
It works for me. But what is not possible is that you can set the volume individually to very loud. I can do this, for example, with my app from Ajax alarm system. ![IMG_0381](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/3/83724104a954987c08f5e66e4048231b5b4078f3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Draper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jonathan_draper/32/33978_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Draper](https://community.homey.app/u/Jonathan_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/27 "2025-04-24T05:57:22Z")
Nope. One of the images is the settings for Homey and the other is the settings for Pushover. I was showing that whereas the pushover app on iPhone has registered for critical alerts and so has a setting button for it, the Homey app does not. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Draper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jonathan_draper/32/33978_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Draper](https://community.homey.app/u/Jonathan_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/28 "2025-04-25T09:37:21Z")
Aha! Found the solution. In order to get critical notifications to work, you have first to open More \> Permissions \> Critical Alerts and enable within the Homey app on iOS and _then_ this setting becomes available in the normal place within Settings \> Notifications \> Homey in iOS itself. If any devs are following along, it might be an idea to make this more visible to the user somehow when this is put into stable release. Provided the same feedback on TestFlight also. ---
**Author:** ![Asterix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/asterix/32/45768_2.png) [@Asterix](https://community.homey.app/u/Asterix)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457/29 "2025-04-25T10:45:57Z")
That regarding the settings was clear to me and there are also critical messages. What is missing, however, is that you can adjust the volume. That’s a shame, so it’s not really an improvement! It should be like in the app of ajax… ![IMG_0384](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/f/cf5f626d673441d8c20f8c10dd5856372ff2bacd.jpeg) [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/feature-request-critical-notifications/34457.md?page=1)