Customize notification preferences by category

Wispr Flow groups notifications into categories — suggestions, announcements, milestones, and team updates — so you can mute what you don't need and keep what matters.

What it is

The Notifications section in Settings → System gives you a toggle for each notification category. Turning off a category mutes all notifications within it. All categories are enabled by default, and changes take effect immediately.

When to use it

Use notification categories when you want to:

• Mute tips and suggestions after you're comfortable with Flow

• Turn off milestone celebrations while keeping feature announcements on

• Manage team notifications separately from personal usage alerts

How it works in Flow

Notification categories

• Suggestions: Tips about getting set up or improving how you use Flow.

• Announcements: New features and capabilities, including a prompt to personalize your writing styles after your 10th dictation.

• Milestones: Word-count milestones, streaks, and referral activity.

• Team updates: Team invitations, join requests, and other team activity. Only visible to enterprise users.

• Team leaderboard updates: Weekly notifications showing your rank on the team leaderboard from the previous week. Only visible to enterprise users.

Key behaviors

• Action button confirmation: Clicking an action button shows a brief checkmark, disables the button to prevent double-clicks, and closes the notification shortly after.

• Long-session text recovery: When a dictation session ends automatically at the 20-minute limit, a notification appears with a "Recover text" button. You also receive a warning 1 minute before the limit.

• First transform celebration: After your first transform outside the Flow app, a notification appears with a "Customize transforms" button that opens Transforms settings. This shows only during your first few transforms, and only after polish onboarding is complete.

• Transform nudge: After dictating, a nudge encourages you to use transforms ("Want to Transform this? Highlight and press [your shortcut]"). It displays your actual configured shortcut and can appear up to 20 times.

• No-selection guidance: If you trigger polish or transform without selecting text, Flow shows a tip with your exact shortcut for the first 3 times (for example, "First, highlight the text you want to transform, then press Opt + 1"). After that, a shorter message appears: "Select text to apply a transform."

• "Couldn't detect text" alert: On Mac and Windows, if Flow cannot detect text in your text box and has no recoverable text from your clipboard or recent dictation, you'll see "Couldn't detect text in your text box." Click into your text box and try again.

• Insights eligible: When you reach a voice profile word-count milestone, a desktop notification lets you know you're eligible for voice insights, with a button that opens your voice profile and insights page.

• Insights ready: Once your voice profile finishes generating, a desktop notification lets you know your insights are ready to view, with a button that opens your voice profile and insights page.

• Cursor integration suggestion: A notification suggesting the Cursor integration appears only when you're actively using Cursor IDE (or a similar file-based code editor). It does not appear in other editors like VS Code.

• Shortcut names in notifications: Notifications referencing the Paste Last Text shortcut display your actual configured shortcut (default: Ctrl+Cmd+V on Mac, Alt+Shift+Z on Windows).

• Weekly team leaderboard rank: You only receive the weekly leaderboard notification if you dictated at least 100 words the previous week.

• Review nudge (Android): On Android, a push notification ("Enjoying Flow? / We'd love your help with one thing") prompts you to rate Wispr Flow once you've completed at least 3 successful dictations and transcribed at least 500 words that day. The prompt is suppressed for the rest of the day if any dictation errors occurred. Tapping the nudge opens a feedback dialog (limited to 2,000 characters) that you can re-open each time you tap. If submission fails, the dialog shows an error so you can dismiss or retry. Tapping "Rate 5 stars" opens the Google Play review sheet so you can leave a rating.

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Limitations and notes

• Per-category toggles are available on Mac and Windows only. On iOS, a single Push Notifications toggle in Settings → General controls all push notifications, and a separate "Allow Live Activities" toggle controls Lock Screen and Dynamic Island activity (managed at the OS level).

• Notification settings are stored locally and must be configured separately on each device.

• The Team updates and Team leaderboard updates categories are only visible to enterprise users.

• During onboarding, most notifications are suppressed regardless of your category settings. Only essential notifications appear: permission alerts (microphone and accessibility), microphone hardware issues, helper app errors, and onboarding prompts.

• Some team-related billing notifications (such as trial expiration and team invite alerts) always appear, even with Team updates turned off.

• The Insights Eligible and Insights Ready notifications are only shown to users in the voice profile and insights experience. Other users continue to see the original Voice Profile notifications.

• If an enterprise admin hides the leaderboard for their organization, the Insights → Leaderboard tab is removed and weekly leaderboard rank notifications are suppressed for all members, regardless of individual toggle settings.