Reminders
Reminders are off until you turn them on. Settings › Reminders › Enable Reminders asks iOS for notification permission and, if you allow it, schedules four repeating daily notifications: a glucose check and an insulin dose in the morning, and the same pair in the evening. The default times are 8:00 and 8:05, 20:00 and 20:05; Configure Times changes each one. Logging an insulin dose quietly cancels an insulin reminder that was about to fire, so you are not nagged for the dose you just gave.
Turning reminders on
Section titled “Turning reminders on”-
Open Settings › Reminders and switch on Enable Reminders.
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iOS asks whether SugarPaws may send notifications (alerts, sounds and badges). Allow — the four reminders are scheduled at once. Don’t Allow — the toggle snaps back off and a hint appears under it: Notifications are turned off for SugarPaws, so reminders can’t be delivered. with an Open Settings button that takes you to the app’s page in the iOS Settings app, where notifications can be re-enabled.
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Tap Configure Times (it appears once the toggle is on) to adjust the schedule, then Save.
Switching the toggle off cancels every scheduled reminder. If you later revoke notifications in iOS Settings, the toggle turns itself off the next time you open Settings and the same hint appears.
The four reminders
Section titled “The four reminders”| Reminder | Default time | Notification title | Body |
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| Morning glucose check | 8:00 | Glucose Check Reminder | Time to check your cat’s blood glucose level |
| Morning insulin dose | 8:05 | Insulin Reminder | Time for your cat’s insulin dose |
| Evening glucose check | 20:00 | Glucose Check Reminder | Time to check your cat’s blood glucose level |
| Evening insulin dose | 20:05 | Insulin Reminder | Time for your cat’s insulin dose |
Each repeats every day at that hour and minute with the default sound. There is one schedule for the whole app — reminders are not per cat. Tapping a notification opens SugarPaws; it does not pre-select anything.
Reminder Times (the Configure Times sheet) has a Morning Reminder section with Glucose Check and Insulin Dose time pickers and an Evening Reminder section with the same two. Save is enabled once you change something and reschedules everything; Cancel discards. Only the hour and minute matter.
How a logged dose silences the insulin reminder
Section titled “How a logged dose silences the insulin reminder”Two mechanisms, covering the two ways a notification can arrive:
- App in the foreground. When an insulin reminder fires while SugarPaws is open, the app checks whether the active cat has a dose logged within the last hour. If so, the notification is not shown at all. Glucose reminders are always shown.
- App in the background. The moment you save an insulin dose, any insulin reminder due within the next 60 minutes is replaced by a one-off at the same time tomorrow, so tonight’s does not fire. The regular daily schedule is put back the next time the app launches (it re-registers all four reminders on every launch while the toggle is on and permission is granted), which also clears those one-offs.
Nothing suppresses a glucose reminder — logging a reading does not cancel the next check.