IMPORTANT If you delete an account from your smartphone using the Accounts app, all data is removed from all apps on your smartphone associated with the account. The account itself still exists online. For example, if you delete an Exchange account using the Accounts app, all your Exchange data is removed from Email, Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks. If you want to delete data only from one app served by the
View and work with notifications
Notifications show up at the bottom of the screen to notify you of new voicemail and messages, upcoming appointments, missed calls, application updates, and more. Some notifications also display app controls, such as music playback controls, when you are not in the app itself.
There are several kinds of notifications:
Banner alert: This is a notification that appears in a small strip at the bottom of the screen. Some banner alerts appear as confirmation of an
Dashboard item: The dashboard provides an expanded view of all notifications you can act on. For example, you can tap a voicemail dashboard item to check your voicemail, or a calendar dashboard item to open your calendar.
If the dashboard item has a number next to it, the number indicates how many items are included in the
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