Critical notifications
Note: requires mobile app version >= 1.2.27
If you need notifications to bypass do-not-disturb policies, for example when you are using Notify17 for night-time monitoring, you can use Critical notifications.
This feature is platform-dependent:
- iOS supports natively critical notifications, and you don’t need any additional configuration.
- Android requires some human intervention before this feature can be enabled. Please follow the guide below to configure critical notifications on Android devices.
You can generate critical notifications using:
- Raw API keys, using the
critical=true
condition. - Notification templates, using a critical condition.
- Raw templated notifications, using the
__n17CriticalCondition
template.
Android configuration
Disclaimer: To configure critical notifications on Android, you have to first generate (at least once) a notification marked as critical, e.g. by using a critical condition.
After you generate at least one critical notification, you can then open Notify17’s Notification settings, as illustrated below:

The Notification settings button will open Android’s notification settings page for the Notify17 application.
Disclaimer: the following documentation refers to a standard Android operating system version, and different manufacturers may provide a different visual experience.
In this page you can see the list of you possible “notification channels”, each identified by:
- A
CRIT/
prefix, if the notification channel refers to a critical notification - The sound name related to this notification channel (
default
, if no specific sound name has been used) - Your shortened login identifier (e.g. email address) and login method
To proceed with the configuration, tap on the relevant CRIT/
-prefixed notification channel (if you used a custom notification sound, make sure you’re tapping on the correctly named one!):

Once you’re in the notification channel settings, you need to enable the Override Do Not Disturb switch:

Awesome! Now your critical notifications will bypass the do-not-disturb mode!