Notification Test

Notification Test checks whether your browser can show notifications — the pop-ups that web mail, chat, calendars and reminders use — and, when they do not appear, where the problem is. It shows whether this browser supports web notifications at all and whether this site is allowed, blocked or not yet asked. Press Send a test notification and, the first time, the browser asks your permission; once allowed, the page sends one notification with the time in it. If the browser accepts it but nothing appears on screen, the browser is working and your operating system is holding notifications back — usually Focus or Do not disturb, or notifications switched off for the browser — and the page tells you where that setting is on your system. On phones the notification is shown through the site’s service worker, the way installed web apps do it.

1. Read the line at the top: allowed, blocked or not decided yet.
2. Press Send a test notification. If the browser asks, choose Allow.
3. Look for the notification. If none appears, follow the system setting the page names.
4. If notifications are blocked, allow them in the site settings (the icon left of the address) and reload.

• Once you have chosen Block, browsers do not ask again; only the site settings can undo it.
• On iPhone and iPad, web notifications work only for sites added to the Home Screen and opened from there (iOS 16.4 and later).
• Chrome and Edge may show a quiet bell icon in the address bar instead of asking, if you often dismiss permission prompts. Click it to allow.
• Some browsers group or hide notifications from a page that is already in front; switch to another window right after pressing the button if nothing shows.
• This tests notifications a page shows itself. Push notifications that arrive while a site is closed also need the site’s push server, which this test does not use.
• The notification is made by your browser on your device. There is no push service and no server: the page does not subscribe you to anything, cannot send you notifications later, and sends nothing anywhere. If you allow notifications for this site and no longer want them allowed, remove the permission in the site settings.

Send a test here. If the page says the browser accepted it but you saw nothing, check Focus or Do not disturb, and the system’s notification settings for your browser. If the page says notifications are blocked, allow them in the site settings.

No. The page sends exactly one notification each time you press the button, and nothing at any other time. There is no subscription and no server.

Click the icon left of the address, open the site settings, and set Notifications to Allow (or Ask). Then reload the page.

Only for web apps added to the Home Screen, on iOS 16.4 or later. In Safari’s normal tabs, sites cannot show notifications.