Smart alerts and the bell

Smart alerts

Small windows that appear while you browse. The most important are those that truly concern you:

• Birthdays and anniversaries coming up, with a ready WhatsApp greeting.
• The next step in your tree, and a relative joining through your invitation.
• Reviewing your privacy, uploading your photo, and writing your first post.
• Share payments due to pay or to confirm: paying and confirming.
• Writing or reviewing your legacy message: legacy messages.
• Sharing your number with the family: Family phone directory.

The Hide button postpones an alert for about a month. Important news is also kept in the bell so it is not lost if you miss it.

The bell

The bell icon at the top shows your notifications: mentions, shares, replies and more. Press one to open the page it concerns and mark it read, or open the notifications page and mark all as read.

How often do they appear?

A visit starts quietly: no alert in the first two minutes, nor in the first half minute of each page. An alert never appears while you are browsing; it waits until you pause for a moment. After that it never goes faster than your chosen pace (every 1, 3, 6, 10 or 30 minutes, or Off, counted across pages), and at most 4 alerts in one visit. Choose the pace from your profile: alert timing.