{"id":50482,"date":"2025-12-17T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50482"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:43:32","slug":"ios-26-3-notification-forwarding-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/ios-26-3-notification-forwarding-in-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.3: Notification Forwarding in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/15\/ios-26-3-notification-forwarding\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/15\/ios-26-3-notification-forwarding\/\">\n<p>iOS 26.3 adds a new &ldquo;Notification Forwarding&rdquo; setting that allows incoming notifications on an iPhone to be forwarded to a third-party device.<\/p>\n<p>The setting is located in the Notification section of the Settings app under a new &ldquo;Notification Forwarding&rdquo; option. Apple says that notifications can only be forwarded to a single device at a time, so if Notification Forwarding is enabled with a third-party wearable, the Apple Watch won&rsquo;t able to receive and display notifications.<\/p>\n<p>Users can choose to have a device receive notifications only from selected apps rather than all apps, and notifications will include the name of the app and all content contained in the notification. This is a feature that is only available to those living in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s amazing how much iOS functionality now differs by region.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/16\/airdropping-with-android\/\">AirDropping With Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/25\/ios-26-2-to-open-up-iphoneapple-watch-wi-fi-sync-in-eu\/\">iOS 26.2 to Open Up iPhone&#x2013;Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/06\/airpods-live-translation-expands-to-the-eu\/\">AirPods Live Translation Expands to the EU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/apples-thoughts-on-the-dma\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Thoughts on the DMA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/apple-appeals-eu-digital-markets-act-interoperability-rules\/\">Apple Appeals EU Digital Markets Act Interoperability Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones\/\">Apple Restricts Pebble From Being Awesome With iPhones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/dma-compliance-default-maps-app-in-eu\/\">DMA Compliance: Default Maps App in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/eu-ios-envy\/\">EU iOS Envy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/ios-18-browser-choice-and-default-app-controls-in-eu\/\">iOS 18: Browser Choice and Default App Controls in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-3-notification-forwarding-in-eu-update-2025-12-18\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-3-notification-forwarding-in-eu-update-2025-12-18\">2025-12-18<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/currently.att.yahoo.com\/att\/apple-walled-garden-cracks-open-165500351.html\">Alex Barrientos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/currently.att.yahoo.com\/att\/apple-walled-garden-cracks-open-165500351.html\">\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t generous feature-giving&mdash;it&rsquo;s regulatory compliance dressed up as user choice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/ios-26-3-notification-forwarding-in-eu\/#comment-4345539\">Nate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/ios-26-3-notification-forwarding-in-eu\/#comment-4345539\"><p>It&rsquo;s amazing too how spiteful Apple is. By nerfing Apple Watch they ensure this feature will never actually be useful. Even if it was limited to a single device at a time AND Apple Watch, then someone would build a &ldquo;notification router&rdquo; app that fanned out to all the other devices you care about.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: iOS 26.3 adds a new &ldquo;Notification Forwarding&rdquo; setting that allows incoming notifications on an iPhone to be forwarded to a third-party device. The setting is located in the Notification section of the Settings app under a new &ldquo;Notification Forwarding&rdquo; option. Apple says that notifications can only be forwarded to a single device at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-12-17T19:54:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"7ab58fd8-4743-4004-843f-9c7203a287f1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-18T20:43:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AerWP2EdDQASEP5xyA6KH8Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,2570,1927,31,2741,1074,1212,2599],"class_list":["post-50482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-digital-markets-act-dma","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-push-notifications","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-26"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50499,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482\/revisions\/50499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}