How to set up phone push notifications for your Plural alerts

Get phone notifications when an email update is sent for your tracked bills, saved searches and workspace activity.

Regardless of what device or application you are using, setting up push notifications to be alerted by Plural can be key to ensuring you stay updated on the legislative activity that matters to you.

Email Notifications in Plural

Plural’s notification settings allow you to customize how frequently you receive emails when there is an update to bills that you are tracking, new bills that match your saved searches, or new activity from a colleague in your workspace.

How to Set Up Push Email Notifications on Your Phone to Receive Alerts for Plural Updates

The first step to ensuring that your phone will notify you when you when you receive an update email from Plural is to turn notifications settings on for the email application you are using.

This process will differ slightly depending on your phone and application.

iPhone Notification Settings

To access your notification settings on an iPhone:

1. Click on your “Settings” application
2. Select “Notifications”
3. Scroll down to the select the email application you are using
4. Toggle the “Allow Notifications” toggle on

Samsung Galaxy Notification Settings

To access your notification settings on a Galaxy:

1. Click on your “Settings” application. 
2. Select “Apps”
3. Scroll down to the select the email application you are using
4. Select “Notifications”
5. Toggle the “Show Notifications” toggle on

Both phones will allow you to set additional notification preferences from this page, allowing you to customize the sound of the notification and the information shown. 

Once you have set your phone to allow notifications from the email application you are using, the next step is to adjust your settings within those applications. Below is an example of how to do this within the iPhone’s “Mail” application.

iPhone Mail Notification Settings

You can set which specific emails you are alerted to in Apple’s native “Mail” app:

1. Create a contact within the “Phone” application for the email you want to receive notifications for, including the email address
2. Open the “Mail” application
3. Click on “VIP” under Mailboxes
4. Click “Add VIP” and select the contact you created in step 1 
5. Click “VIP Alerts” to set the specific settings for VIP email notifications