How to Stop AirPods From Reading Notifications

To stop your AirPods from reading notifications aloud, turn off the Announce Notifications feature on your iPhone or iPad. To completely stop all notifications, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap Notifications. Tap Announce Notifications.

Toggle off Announce Notifications at the top of the screen. To stop notifications for AirPods only, go to Settings > Notifications > Announce Notifications. Scroll down to the Announce When Connected To section. Toggle off Headphones. To turn off notifications for specific apps, go to Settings > Notifications > Announce Notifications.

Scroll down to the list of apps under Announce Notifications From.

Tap on a specific app and toggle it off, or choose to restrict alerts only to Time Sensitive and Direct Messages. To use the quick control center method, swipe down from the top-right corner of your iPhone screen to open Control Center. Tap the Announce Notifications bell icon to quickly toggle the feature on or off.

Your iPhone can read texts and other notifications in circumstances where you are unable to see your screen. This can be useful when you are listening to music on your AirPods, but it can be annoying. You can stop AirPods from reading texts completely, but you also have a few other options to make Siri less noisy.

You can instead reduce the number of notifications your iPhone reads. To turn off the feature, you will need to disable “Announce Notifications”. Siri will then stop reading notifications on your AirPods. To stop your iPhone from reading notifications over your AirPods, head to Settings > Notifications > Announce Notifications.

This setting applies to compatible AirPods models, plus certain Beats models.

Your iPhone will not read notifications over standard Bluetooth headphones or external speakers. If you want your iPhone to read notifications while you are using CarPlay, you can enable “Announce Notifications” but disable the “Headphones” option. Tap on “CarPlay” to make further changes to the way incoming notifications are announced.

Siri’s ability to announce notifications can be very handy, but its utility largely depends on how it is used. It is far less disruptive if you are careful about which notifications are announced so that you are not getting unimportant notifications from apps like games or social networks. You can customize which apps are announced under Settings > Notifications > Announce Notifications by scrolling down.

You will see a list of installed apps. Tap on an app to enable or disable “Announce Notifications” for that particular software. Some apps let you differentiate “Priority Notifications” and “Time Sensitive and Direct Messages” from regular notifications so that only the most important alerts are read out.

If you enable this setting for an app that does not already have notifications enabled, notifications will be turned on.

Notifications are arguably one of the most useful features on any smartphone. They alert you to important email messages and online developments in real time, but striking a balance between being informed and being overwhelmed is essential. Learning how to master iPhone notifications lets you eliminate annoying notifications and make sure you do not miss the ones that matter.

If you have an Apple Watch, it is a good idea to fine-tune the notifications you receive on your Apple Watch too.