Beyond even the flexibility of choosing which weather events merit a critical alert, CARROT goes further by offering the ability for each alert to only be sent at night, during the hours you specify, or you can have them sent regardless of time of day. They can be enabled for tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, flash flood warnings, tropical storm warnings, and hurricane warnings. Moreover, critical alerts carry a special red exclamation point next to their title and have their own dedicated section in the Settings app.ĭue to how invasive a critical alert is, I appreciate the way CARROT has implemented the feature: you can get any or all government weather alerts as standard notifications, rather than critical alerts if you choose, and if you do want to use critical alerts, the app lets you manually configure exactly which types of weather events to activate them for. Critical alerts can be local or push notifications, and they play whether the device is unlocked or not. Federico detailed this special notification type in his iOS 12 review:ĭesigned for apps that deliver urgent and critical information, these special notifications are highly disruptive in that they always play a sound (which can be a custom one at an app-specified level), bypass Do Not Disturb, and always ignore the ringer switch. Where this is especially interesting is that CARROT Weather uses a new iOS 12 technology called Critical Alerts to optionally ensure that key alerts are received whether your device is silenced or in Do Not Disturb mode. Government-issued weather alerts can now be delivered via notification too. The power here is in custom notifications’ flexibility: you can choose exactly what threshold merits receiving a rain notification, whether it’s 20%, 40%, or anything you desire. You can, for example, get a morning reminder when the UV index for the day merits bringing sunscreen, or the chance of rain means you’ll want an umbrella on-hand. This change should make the notifications more reliable than ever, but it does require a more costly subscription plan Watch or Mac-based notifications are still available to subscribers of lower-tiered plans, however.Ĭustom notifications enable configuring different data points that serve as thresholds for delivering a notification. Precipitation notifications were previously only available to users of the Apple Watch or Mac apps, but now they’re being extended to the iOS app alone because they’re being served directly from CARROT’s servers.
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