Safari Notify Me watches a webpage for you and sends an alert when something on it changes. It arrived in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, and it covers restocks, price drops, ticket sales, and new posts without you refreshing the page.
You tell Safari what to look for in plain language, choose how often it should check, and allow notifications. Our roundup of every new Safari feature in iOS 27 covers the rest of the update.
Safari Notify Me Only Works on Apple Intelligence Devices
Notify Me runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac models that support Apple Intelligence, which on iPhone means an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
You also need to allow Safari to send notifications. If notifications are turned off, Safari has no way to alert you when a monitored page changes.
How to Set Up Safari Notify Me on iPhone
The steps below work on any iPhone running iOS 27 that supports Apple Intelligence.
- Open Safari and go to the page you want to monitor.
- Tap the page menu button on the left side of the address bar.
- Tap Notify Me.
- Tap a suggestion, or type what you want Safari to look for, such as “Alert me when the item is back in stock.”
- Tap Edit to change how often Safari checks and at what time.
- Allow notifications if Safari asks, then tap the checkmark to save the alert.
If Safari cannot act on your description, it shows an error. Reword what you typed and try again.
How to Set Up Safari Notify Me on Mac
The setup on a Mac running macOS 27 Golden Gate follows the same flow.
- Open Safari and visit the page you want to monitor.
- Click the page menu button in the address bar.
- Choose Notify Me.
- Describe the change you want Safari to watch for.
- Set the check frequency and time.
- Allow notifications if asked, then save the alert.
Safari Checks Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly
The check frequency decides how quickly you hear about a change, so match it to the page you are watching.
- Hourly suits restocks and ticket drops that sell out fast.
- Daily suits price changes and new posts.
- Weekly or monthly suits slow pages, such as a registration window that has no set date.
You can also set the time of day. If a store updates its listings at 11 AM, setting the check for 11:05 AM gives the page time to change first.
How to Edit or Delete a Notify Me Alert
All of your alerts live in one list, and you can change or remove any of them from there.
- On iPhone or iPad, open Settings > Apps > Safari, scroll down, and tap Notify Me. Select a website to edit what Safari looks for, change the time and frequency, or delete the alert.
- On Mac, open Safari > Settings > Websites and click Notify Me on the left. Use the Edit or Delete buttons next to a website.
Tapping an alert notification also takes you to the page, where you can decide whether to keep watching it.
Notify Me Checks on a Schedule and Does Not Work on Every Website
Safari looks at the page at the time you set and does not watch it continuously. A restock that sells out between two checks can disappear before the alert arrives. Some websites are also not supported, and Safari will not be able to monitor them.
Many retailers and publishers offer their own restock or new-post alerts by email or push notification. Those do not depend on a schedule, so Notify Me works best for pages that have no alert option of their own.
Our Take
My read is that Notify Me is most useful for the pages nobody built an alert for, like a store listing with no restock email or a registration page that opens on an unannounced date. For anything with a built-in alert, I would sign up for that first and keep Notify Me as the backup. The shortest check interval is one hour, so a restock that sells out faster than that can still get past it.
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