Notifications
Updated on 2026-10-16
The bell icon is your notification inbox. It sits in the header of the Home screen in the app. A small dot on it says only that there is something to read, and it disappears when nothing is unread.
What you'll see
- Personal records - you set a new record, or one of your clients did
- Badges - you earned a new badge
- Coaching - someone asks you to be their coach, a coach accepts your request, a request is canceled
- Calendar - an event is scheduled with you, updated, or canceled (a change you make yourself does not notify you)
- Habit reminders - the reminders your phone shows you land in the inbox too, so a nudge you swiped away is not lost. They are a record rather than news: they never light the bell's dot and carry no "new" mark
- From your watch - you asked your Garmin watch to add a meal by voice, and the request waits here for you to record it
When something happens, the bell's dot lights up instantly - you don't need to pull the screen down.
Reading them
Open the bell and you'll see your latest notifications, newest first, each with what happened and when.
In the app every row has its own icon - a dumbbell for an exercise record, a trophy for a whole-session record or a badge, the habit's own icon for a reminder - and the same layout: a small category line and the time on top ("New record", "7 new records", "New badge"), then a bold title - the exercise, the badge's name or the reminder - then the result with what it gained ("7 × 70 kg · +10 kg") or the reminder's text. A habit's reminders from one day share one row that counts them ("5 reminders today", or "8 reminders" for an earlier day), at the time of the latest.
A whole-session record (most volume) names itself instead of an exercise, and a row that holds several records or badges ends by counting the rest ("and 6 more records"). Tap a record row and every record from that session opens in the same sheet, dated, in the same format as your records in Statistics; the arrow at the top left goes back to the list.
Opening the list marks everything as read, so the dot clears on its own - there is nothing to tick off one by one. In the mobile app the ones you hadn't seen yet keep a small dot for as long as the list is open, so you can tell the new ones from the rest at a glance. A record or badge from a workout you saved in the app arrives already read: the screen after your workout has just shown it to you. One that comes from your watch, from Apple Health or Health Connect, or from a workout saved while offline is new as before.
In the app, tap a badge notification and Achievements opens; tap a habit reminder and the Habits tab opens, where one tap ticks it off; tap the request from your watch and the voice recorder opens for that day. The other rows are there to read: they report something that happened elsewhere, and the app has nowhere to send you.
That's it - keep an eye on the bell and you'll never miss a change.