Push notifications

A push notification is an alert from MinecraftAFK that lands on your phone or computer like any other app's, even with the dashboard closed. It is the other place a webhook can send to besides a Discord channel, and what the Notify my devices step of a macro sends: a bot dies, drops its connection or finishes a job, and your phone buzzes.

Sending them needs Tier 3, the same as webhooks. Turning a device on works on any plan, so you can set that up first.

Your devices

Notifications go to devices, and a device is a browser rather than a phone: every browser you turn notifications on in counts as one. Chrome on your laptop, Firefox on the same laptop and the app on your phone's Home Screen are three devices.

They are listed under Push notifications in Settings. This device comes first, with its switch, and Your other devices are below it, each named by browser and system (such as "Chrome on Windows") and saying when it was last notified, or when it was added. Remove takes one off the list, and it gets nothing more.

Turn notifications on

1. On the phone or computer you want them on, open Settings in the dashboard.
2. Under Push notifications, switch on This device.
3. Allow notifications when your browser asks.
4. Click Send a test to see one arrive.

You can do the same from a webhook's form: tick My devices and click Turn on here.

Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all work, on a computer and on Android, in a tab or as the installed app. A browser that can't receive them says so under the switch. In Brave, first turn on Use Google services for push messaging in its own settings, under Privacy.

iPhone and iPad

On iPhone and iPad, notifications only reach MinecraftAFK added to your Home Screen, from iOS 16.4. A Safari tab can't receive them, so there the switch tells you to add the app first.

1. Open the dashboard in Safari.
2. Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
3. Open MinecraftAFK from your Home Screen.
4. Turn notifications on there, as above.

On a version before iOS 16.4, the switch says notifications need iOS 16.4 or later.

If notifications are blocked

When the switch is greyed out with Notifications are blocked for this site, your browser has refused them for MinecraftAFK. Allow notifications in the browser's site settings (the icon beside the address), then switch it on again.

If you close the browser's question without answering it, nothing is turned on. Some browsers stop asking after that, so if switching it on again shows no question, allow notifications from the icon beside the address and try once more.

Blocking notifications later, in the browser's own settings, stops them showing on that device. It stays on your list until a notification to it fails, and then drops off by itself.

Logging out turns notifications off in that browser, so a shared computer stops getting your alerts. Turn them on again after you sign back in.

What a notification says

A notification is titled with the Sender name set in the webhook's message, or else the webhook's or macro's name, or else the server profile's name. Its text is the message line, as plain text: formatting such as bold is dropped, and the placeholders are filled in with live values. Tags, the timestamp and pictures belong to the Discord post only.

Tapping it opens that server profile in the dashboard. If the dashboard is already open, that window goes there rather than a second one opening, and on a phone with the app installed it opens the app.

When several fire at once

When several watched bots fire together, a fleet dropping at once being the usual case, you don't get a buzz per bot. The first notification arrives straight away, and the rest follow a few seconds later in one notification that lists them, up to five lines and then "+N more". A line that repeats is counted rather than repeated. A batch that mixes webhooks or servers is titled MinecraftAFK and opens the dashboard.

Send a test

Send a test in Settings sends a sample notification to every device on your account. A webhook that sends to your devices can be tested too: the paper plane on its row sends its own message, with sample values in the placeholders, to all of them as well as to its channel.

From a webhook

On a server profile's Webhooks page, tick My devices under Send to, as well as or instead of Discord channel. With only My devices ticked, no URL is needed. Under the tick, the form says how many devices it will notify, or No device gets notifications yet. It offers Turn on here when the device you are on isn't one of them yet, and Manage, which opens Settings, when it is. The Discord webhooks guide covers the rest of the form.

From a macro

The Notify my devices step, under Communication in the macro builder, sends a notification at that point in the flow, with the placeholders of the macro's trigger. It needs Tier 3. A macro you publish or share keeps the step as it is, and it notifies whoever adds the macro, on their own devices. See Webhooks inside a macro.