Enable phone push

Phone push notifications let your family page buzz your phone when something time-sensitive happens — a cancellation, a time change, a coach note for tomorrow’s practice. No app store install required.

What you’ll get notified about

A push fires when (within 48 hours of the event):

• ⚠ The coach cancels (or un-cancels) the event.
• ⏰ The time changes.
• 📍 The location changes.
• 🪧 Race-day details change (hill, meeting time, meeting location, discipline).
• 📌 A coach note is added or changed.
• 📅 A new event is created on your athlete’s group.

For events more than 48 hours away, you don’t get phone push — you get the next day’s email digest at 6pm (see Who gets the daily email).

Setup

iPhone

iPhone has a quirk: push notifications only work from an installed PWA, not from Safari directly. So setup has two steps.

Step 1 — Add to Home Screen (if you haven’t yet):

1. Open your family page in Safari (must be Safari).
2. Tap Share → Add to Home Screen → Add.

(See Add to home screen for the full walk-through.)

Step 2 — Enable push in the installed app:

3. Tap the new icon on your home screen.
4. Scroll down to Settings → Phone notifications.
5. Tap Enable on this device.
6. iOS asks for notification permission — tap Allow.
7. The status line flips to “Push is enabled on this device.”

Screenshot: iOS notification permission prompt

To test: ask your coach to make a small change to an event in the next 48 hours. Within a couple seconds you should buzz.

Android

Android is more permissive than iOS. Push works in any modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Samsung Internet) without an install.

1. Open your family page in Chrome (or your preferred browser).
2. Scroll to Settings → Phone notifications.
3. Tap Enable on this device.
4. Chrome asks for notification permission — tap Allow.
5. The status line flips to “Push is enabled on this device.”

Screenshot: Chrome Android notification prompt

To test: ask your coach to make a change. Buzz within a couple seconds.

Optional: install the page as a PWA too (see Add to home screen). Pushes work either way, but the installed version is a nicer experience.

Desktop

Desktop push works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and most other modern browsers. Same flow as Android.

1. Open your family page in your desktop browser.
2. Scroll to Settings → Phone notifications.
3. Click Enable on this device.
4. Your browser asks for notification permission — click Allow.
5. Notifications appear in your OS notification center.

Safari on Mac supports push but the user experience differs slightly — notifications show in the macOS Notification Center.

To test: have your coach make a change. Look in your OS notification center.

Each device is independent

If you have an iPhone AND a laptop, enabling push on one doesn’t enable it on the other. You can enable on whichever devices you want — they’re all independent.

Disable

Same panel — Disable on this device. Your subscription is removed. You can re-enable any time. To revoke the browser’s notification permission entirely, do that in your browser/OS settings.

I enabled, but I’m not getting buzzes

A few things to check:

1. Is the event you’re expecting a notification for within 48 hours? Further-out events go to the email digest, not push.
2. Did you grant permission? Check your browser’s site settings.
3. Is “Do Not Disturb” / “Focus” enabled on your phone?
4. Did you sign in to your family page on the device you enabled on? The subscription is tied to the family slug — you have to be signed in (i.e. have the cookie set) on that device.

If none of the above, ping your coach and we can check the server-side subscription state.