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Notifications
What a release reminder is, where you set one, and why nothing but your own device is behind it.
What a reminder is
Settings → Notifications opens a screen titled Release reminders. It is the list of what you have set, not the place you set it.
Every reminder is a local notification, scheduled on this device by iOS from a date Managerr already holds. Nothing is sent to you from a server, and Managerr has no server of its own to send anything from.
iOS asks for notification permission the first time a reminder is scheduled. If notifications are not allowed for Managerr, the reminder is not stored and the app reports Couldn’t set the reminder. Allow them for Managerr in the iOS Settings app, then set it again.
Setting one
Reminders are set in Calendar, not here. Select a release and the reminder control offers three timings:
- At release time
- 1 hour before
- 1 day before
A fourth entry, Remove reminder, appears once one is set.
Plenty of releases arrive with a date and no time of day. Managerr treats those as 9am on the day and leaves out 1 hour before for them, because an hour before a time nobody published would be a guess dressed up as a fact.
The bell is one of the media controls, so it appears only while Reminder is on under Settings → Home & Library → Show Media Controls. Turning it off hides the control; it does not remove reminders you have already set. See Home & Library.
The reminders list
Each rule on this screen names four things: the title it belongs to, which release it is, its timing, and a badge for the service it came from — useful when two servers both track the same show. Timings read as the app stores them, so At release time stays as it is and an hour ahead reads 60 minutes before.
Swipe a row and tap Remove to delete that one. With nothing set, the screen reads No reminders set.
Keeping them accurate
A reminder is built from the release date this device last fetched, which is what the note above the list is telling you: open Managerr to keep them current.
When your server learns that a date has moved, Managerr reconciles the reminder the next time it refreshes — when you open the app, or when a background refresh happens to run. Background App Refresh is a toggle in General, and iOS decides when it runs.
Nothing is watching your servers on your behalf while the app is closed. A date that slips overnight is corrected on the next refresh, not at the moment your server found out — so a reminder can fire for a release that has since moved.
What they cannot do
- Managerr schedules local release reminders. It does not register with your services to receive push notifications.
- Only the sixty soonest reminders still in the future are handed to iOS. Past their date they stop being scheduled.
- Demo mode does not schedule notifications. The demo says so rather than pretending it did.
- Removing a service removes its reminders along with the rest of its local data.