# Get alerts on iPhone without the app

> Add WxAlerts to your iPhone's Home Screen and get warnings for your saved places as notifications, with a free account and no app.

Alerts and places · How-to guide · https://wxalerts.org/docs/alerts/iphone-without-the-app/

The WxAlerts iPhone app is waiting on Apple. Until it arrives, an iPhone or
iPad on iOS 16.4 or later can get warnings for your saved places from
wxalerts.org itself, added to the Home Screen.

## Set it up

1. In Safari, open the forecast for a place you care about.
2. Tap **Share**, then **Add to Home Screen**, then **Add**.
3. Open **WxAlerts** from your Home Screen.
4. Tap **Turn on alerts**. Sign in or create a free account when asked, then
   allow notifications.

If it opens on the map, tap **Turn on alerts for your places** at the top, or
go to **Account**, then **Places**.

The Home Screen app keeps its own sign in, separate from Safari's, so you sign
in there once even if Safari already is. If you create an account, confirm your
email, then come back to the WxAlerts icon and sign in.

## What you get

- Warnings for your saved places, as ordinary notifications. A tap opens the
  alert.
- As many places as your plan covers: one on the free plan, more on the others.
  See [pricing](/pricing/).
- Each place's own settings under **Account**, then **Places**: which kinds of
  alert it sends (warnings, unless you change it), anything muted, and whether
  it is paused.

It does not follow you around. A web page cannot check where you are in the
background, so the alerts are for the places you saved, not for wherever the
phone is.

## Turn it off

In the Home Screen app, go to **Account**, then **Places**, and tap **Turn off
on this iPhone**. Removing the icon from your Home Screen, or turning off its
notifications in **Settings**, stops them too.

## If it did not work

- Check that **Settings**, **Notifications**, **WxAlerts** is allowed, and that
  a Focus mode is not holding it back.
- Check that the place is saved and not paused.
- An alert reaches a place when the Weather Service's warning area contains it.
  A county named in a warning is not always covered by it.

To save a place first, see
[Add a saved place](/docs/alerts/saved-places/).