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Notifications

Get updates about assigned tasks, comments, shopping, and household activity. You aren’t notified about things you do yourself, with one exception: Quick notes (see below).

In the app

The 🔔 at the top shows how many notifications you haven’t read. Select it to open the list. Opening a notification marks it read and takes you to what it’s about; Mark all read clears them all.

What you’ll hear about

Tasks

A task assigned to you, one that’s due today or overdue, someone finishing your task, or a nudge about a task.

Comments

A new comment on a task notifies the task’s creator, the people it’s assigned to, and the household’s other adults. The person who wrote the comment isn’t notified.

Lists

A list item assigned to you, and updates while someone is out shopping (“got Bananas,” “Milk was unavailable”).

Around the house

Someone checks in somewhere, or shares something with you.

Quick notes

When ✨ Make sense files something from Quick notes, every adult in the household is notified, including the person who selected it, so everyone can see what was added.

Discover

A household starts following you, asks to connect, or likes one of your picks.

Push notifications on iPhone

1. When the Gatherby iPhone app asks to send notifications, tap Allow.
2. If you didn’t, open your iPhone’s Settings → Notifications → Gatherby and turn on Allow Notifications. That’s also where you turn them off or change how they appear.

Push notifications in a phone browser

If you use Gatherby in Safari on iPhone instead of the app, push notifications need Gatherby on your Home Screen.

1. Open Gatherby in Safari, tap the Share button, then tap Add to Home Screen.
2. Open Gatherby from the new Home Screen icon.
3. Select the 🔔, then Enable notifications on this device, and allow notifications when asked.

Applies to the iPhone app and the web, except where noted. Reviewed October 26, 2026.