How to set a meal alert on iPhone
iPhone only
MesoMetric can show a notification when a meal is due.
Set an alert
- Open Meals.
- Tap a meal, or tap + Add meal.
- Set the Time.
- Turn on Alert me at meal time.
- Tap Save.
Meals with an alert show Alert · {time} on their card.
The first time, your iPhone asks whether MesoMetric may send notifications. No alert is delivered unless you allow it.
MesoMetric asks only when you set an alert. It does not ask at launch, and it does not ask again if you decline.
An alert needs a time in the future
Two things must both be true, or no alert is set:
- the switch is on
- the meal has a time that has not passed yet
A meal time on its own never creates an alert. The switch must also be on.
Logging a meal you already ate creates no alert.
Turning the switch on without a time shows:
Select a meal time to enable the meal alert.
The alert fires once
On iPhone the alert arrives once. It does not repeat. There is nothing to stop.
The meal saves even if the alert fails
The meal is saved regardless of the alert. One of these appears:
Meal saved — To get a meal-time alert, allow Notifications for MesoMetric in Settings. You can still log this meal manually.
Meal saved — The meal-time alert couldn't be set. You can try again — the meal is saved either way.
Meal saved — Notifications are off, so the meal-time alert isn't set. You can still log this meal manually.
Open Settings opens your iPhone's notification settings. Try Again retries setting the alert.
In every case the meal is already logged.
Turn an alert off
Edit the meal, switch Alert me at meal time off, and save. Clearing the time also removes the alert.
Deleting the meal removes its alert.
What the notification says
The title is Time to eat. The body names the meal.
It contains nothing else. No notes, no macros, no photos, and nothing about your health.
If you allow notifications later
Open MesoMetric again. It sets up future alerts when it returns to the foreground. The meals do not need to be re-entered.