If Father’s Day is near and you need to be reminded before it’s too late, here’s how to get iPhone alerts for upcoming holidays, including Father’s Day and beyond.
I’m sure something like this has happened to you in the last month: You reminded yourself that yes, Mother’s Day is approaching, but you quickly forgot about it and haven’t prepared a gift yet until you’ve turned it around. It’s tough, but there’s an easy fix that will save you the embarrassment for next year’s or even next Father’s Day this month.
There is a relatively new app called hookscan provide you with iPhone alerts for just about anything. This is a notification app and that is its sole purpose. With it, you can set all sorts of different notifications and alerts on everything like sports scores, weather updates, new TV episodes aired, and even get Amber alerts.
Personally, the app only allowed me to delete some of the other apps I used to receive certain notifications. But now I can delete these apps to free up space on my 16GB iPhone while still getting the notifications I need.
Here’s how to use the Hooks app to set iPhone alerts for upcoming holidays so you never forget to pick up a gift before it’s too late.
Set iPhone Alerts for Holidays
Creating an alert in the Hooks app is really easy and offers a clean user interface that makes it enjoyable to use, thanks to many major updates since its initial release. To create an alert for upcoming holidays, simply open Hooks and tap the plus icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.
On the next screen there will be a list of all the alerts you have set up. If this is your first time using the app, there will likely be nothing listed, but we’ll fix this shortly and the list will soon fill up with every new notification you create.
The next step is to search for the specific alert you want. Since you want an iPhone alert that will notify you of upcoming holidays, go ahead and start typing “holiday” in the search field at the top of the screen.
Otherwise, you can scroll through the list of different alerts and find the one.
Once you find it, go ahead and tap on it to select it. The next page will be where you set it up and define some parameters for the alert. You need to choose your state and how many days in advance you want to be notified. You can choose 1, 2, 3 or 5 days before the holiday. After that, you will want it enabled and you can choose whether you want the alert to play a sound when it goes off.
When you’re done with this screen, click the top right corner to dismiss the alert and once it’s done and created, you’ll start getting alerts when a holiday is approaching.
Unfortunately, note that you cannot select specific holidays to receive alerts. You’ll get alerts for all holidays, including less important ones like Columbus Day or the like.
Getting notifications about upcoming holidays is really the tip of the iceberg with Hooks. You can get all sorts of different iPhone alerts, and the selection is constantly growing as the app becomes more and more popular.
Again, I’ve used many different apps, especially to get notifications about something. For example, MLB At Bat offers all sorts of features like highlights, news, stats, scores, and even the ability to live stream games directly to your device, but all I really wanted from the app was to get iPhone alerts. When the White Sox game started, that way I could get into the game without missing out.
But with Hooks, I no longer need the MLB At Bat app, as Hooks will notify me when a White Sox game is about to start. This is great news, because my iPhone has one less app that I don’t need, and that way I can free up some extra storage.
