Notifications

What Zen Reader tells you about, and how to turn down the ones you do not want.

The Notifications screen is the inbox for everything the app wants to tell you: a child finished a reading or a spelling practice, a spelling test is coming up, a report card is due, a family invitation, a teacher asking for access, a Reader's suggested edit and its outcome, a comment about a reader, a badge unlocked, reading reminders and streak nudges, and occasional announcements from us.

Refresh and Mark all read are at the top, and each row has Mark read. A row that has somewhere to go opens it when you tap it. The unread count sits on the menu item and updates live.

Turning them down

Settings → Notifications is yours alone — it changes what reaches you, not what anyone else in the family gets.

Push notifications on my devices is the master switch, and it only covers pushes: with it off, everything still arrives on the Notifications page inside the app.

Below it are four categories, and these are not push-only — turning one off stops it reaching you in the app as well:

• Activity updates (readings and spelling)
• Comments about a reader
• Edit suggestions
• Reminders and nudges

If you are being over-notified, this is the section to open.

Reading reminders

A Daily reading reminder goes only to children who have not read or practised that day, at a time the Family Manager chooses — the default is 2:30 pm, in your own timezone. Streak reminders are separate. Both are off unless they are turned on, in Settings → Reading reminders.

That section is on the Family plan only, so an Individual-plan account will not find it.

Beyond that, pushes on a phone or tablet also obey your device's own notification settings.