Use Prominent Alerts

A full-screen alarm interface when a reminder with Prominent Alert fires.

In addition to its standard notification options, Due also offers the ability to use Prominent Alerts, which behave like alarms from the Clock app: they break through Silent and Focus modes and stay on screen until you act on them.

You can use Prominent Alerts for both reminders and timers. A reminder or timer can use a Standard Alert, a Critical Alert, or a Prominent Alert. Choosing a Prominent Alert for an item turns off its Critical Alert, and vice versa.

For a side-by-side comparison of the three alert types and guidance on when to use each, see Standard, Critical & Prominent Alerts: What’s the Difference?

Turn on Prominent Alerts Setting on Your Device

To receive Prominent Alerts on a device, you must first enable them for Due on that device. Otherwise, your timers will continue to use standard or Critical Alerts.

1. Open Due on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Go to ☰ [Menu] > Settings > Alerts & Badges.
3. Tap ‘Prominent Alerts’ under the ‘Reminders’ or ‘Timers’ section.

There are two options available:

1. Off: You will not receive any Prominent Alerts on this device.
2. All Reminders / All Timers: Every reminder or timer notification on this device will be delivered as a Prominent Alert.
3. Specific Reminders / Specific Timers: You will only receive Prominent Alerts for reminders and timers that have Prominent Alert enabled individually. Please see the section ‘Selectively Receive Prominent Alerts For Specific Reminders or Timers’ for more information.

The first time you choose ‘All Reminders / Timers’ or ‘Specific Reminders / Timers’, Due will prompt you for permission to schedule alarms. You will need to grant Due access before Due can send you Prominent Alerts on that device. If you ever revoke the permission, you can re-enable it in iOS Settings > Due > Alarms.

Selectively Receive Prominent Alerts For Specific Reminders or Timers

You may opt to receive Prominent Alerts for selected reminders and timers only. To do this, you can either turn on the Prominent Alerts setting for your device first (refer to Turn on Prominent Alerts Setting on Your Device), or simply enable Prominent Alert on any individual item — if the device-level setting is not already on, Due will prompt you to turn it on at that point.

There are two ways to enable Prominent Alert for a single reminder or timer.

You can selectively enable Prominent Alert for a reminder or timer from the list itself (left), or from the alert setting in the editor (right).

From the list

1. In ‘All Reminders’ or ‘All Timers’, touch and hold a reminder or timer to see a list of options.
2. Tap on ‘Prominent Alert’.

From the editor

1. When creating or editing a reminder or timer, tap the bell icon near the top of the screen.
2. Tap the ‘Alert Type’ button near the bottom of the alert picker.
3. Tap ‘Prominent Alert’.
4. Tap ‘Done’ near the top of the alert picker.
5. Tap ‘OK’ to save the item.

Because alert types are mutually exclusive, enabling Prominent Alert on an item that previously used a Critical Alert will turn off its Critical Alert, and vice versa.

Here, only ‘Feed Pepper’ has Prominent Alert enabled, so it’s the only reminder showing the indicator.

An alarm-clock indicator appears next to a reminder or timer only when you’ve specifically turned on Prominent Alert for it.

When Alerts & Badges > Prominent Alerts is set to All Reminders / Timers, every reminder or timer fires as a prominent alert automatically. Due does not display any indicator in this case.

Set a Custom Snooze Duration for Timer Prominent Alerts

When a timer's Prominent Alert goes off and you snooze it, Due alerts you again after a set interval. By default that interval matches the timer's length, so a one-hour timer comes back one hour later. You can shorten it to a fixed interval so a longer timer nudges you more often.

For example, a one-hour Laundry timer might go off before the laundry is actually done. With its Prominent Alert Snooze Duration set to 10 minutes, snoozing the alert brings it back in 10 minutes rather than a full hour, so you get a gentle nudge every 10 minutes until you mark it done.

This option is for timers only. Reminders snooze according to their own Auto Snooze setting.

The default snooze interval for timer Prominent Alerts, set under Settings > Alerts & Badges > Timers > Prominent Alerts.

Set the default for all timers

The default snooze interval for timer Prominent Alerts is ‘Match Timer Duration’ and can be configured in Settings:

1. Open Due on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Go to ☰ [Menu] > Settings > Alerts & Badges.
3. Tap ‘Prominent Alerts’ under the ‘Timers’ section.
4. Tap ‘Snooze Duration’, then choose ‘Match Timer Duration’ or a fixed interval from 1 minute up to 60 minutes.

Override it for a specific timer

A ‘Prominent Alert Snooze Duration’ option appears once you have enabled Prominent Alert on an individual timer (see ‘Selectively Receive Prominent Alerts For Specific Reminders or Timers’ above). It starts at your default, and you can change it for that timer alone without affecting the default. You can do this from the list or from the editor.

From the list

1. In ‘All Timers’, touch and hold the timer to see a list of options.
2. With Prominent Alert enabled, tap ‘Prominent Alert Snooze Duration’.
3. Choose ‘Match Timer Duration’ or a fixed interval.

Here, the one-hour ‘Laundry’ timer has its Prominent Alert Snooze Duration set to 10 minutes from the list’s context menu.

From the editor

1. When creating or editing a timer, tap the bell icon near the top of the screen.
2. With Alert Type set to Prominent Alert, tap ‘Prominent Alert Snooze Duration’.
3. Choose ‘Match Timer Duration’ or a fixed interval.
4. Tap ‘Done’ near the top of the alert picker, then tap ‘OK’ to save the timer.

From the alert picker in the editor, tap the Alert Type button (left) and choose an interval (right).

Responding to a Prominent Alert

When a reminder or timer with Prominent Alert fires, Due presents the alert in one of two ways:

If your device is unlocked when a reminder or timer with Prominent Alert fires, you’ll receive it as a banner alert at the top of your screen.

• As a full-screen alarm interface, similar to the Clock app's alarm.
• As a banner at the top of the screen, if you are actively using your device.

From either presentation, you can:

• Mark Done — complete the reminder, or stop the timer and mark it done.
• Stop the alert — dismiss the alert without marking the item done. On the full-screen interface, slide to stop. On the banner, tap the ✕ button. You can also stop the alert by pressing the side or lock button on your device.

If you stop a Prominent Alert (rather than marking it done):

• For a reminder with Auto Snooze enabled, the alert will fire again at the next Auto Snooze interval.
• For a reminder without Auto Snooze, the alert will not fire again.

Managing Prominent Alert setting on your Mac

Due for macOS does not support delivering Prominent Alerts. Items with Prominent Alert will be delivered as regular notifications on macOS. However, you can create and manage items with Prominent Alerts on your Mac, and these items will fire as a Prominent Alert on your iPhone and iPad.

Before you can set Prominent Alert on your Mac, you must first enable Prominent Alert on at least one reminder or timer from your iPhone or iPad, and let it sync to the Mac. Once that has happened, you can freely set the alert type on any reminder or timer from the Mac.

There are two ways to set the alert type for a reminder or timer on Mac.

From the list

1. Right-click (or Control-click) a reminder or timer in the list.
2. Choose ‘Alert Type’, then ‘Prominent Alert’ from the submenu.

Setting Prominent Alert from your Mac by right-clicking on the item and choosing ‘Prominent Alert’ from ‘Alert Type’.

From the editor

1. Open a reminder or timer for editing.
2. Click the ‘Alert type’ field.
3. Choose ‘Prominent Alert’ from the menu.
4. Click ‘Save’.

Setting Prominent Alert from your Mac using the ‘Alert type’ field in the editor.

Limitations and Requirements

1. Prominent Alerts fire as the alarm-like interface on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. On Mac, they fire as regular notifications.
2. Prominent Alerts for timers require Due for iOS 25.5 or a later version.
3. Prominent Alerts for reminders, as well as selectively enabling Prominent Alerts on specific reminders or timers, require Due for iOS 26.4 or a later version.
4. To set or sync selective Prominent Alerts on Mac, you need Due for macOS 26.4 or a later version.
5. Depending on your date of purchase, use of Prominent Alerts may require the Upgrade Pass.