---
title: "getNotificationSettings(completionHandler:)"
framework: usernotifications
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "usernotifications/unusernotificationcenter/getnotificationsettings(completionhandler:)"
---

# getNotificationSettings(completionHandler:)

Retrieves the authorization and feature-related settings for your app.

## Declaration

```swift
func getNotificationSettings(completionHandler: @escaping @Sendable (UNNotificationSettings) -> Void)
```

```swift
func notificationSettings() async -> UNNotificationSettings
```

## Parameters

- `completionHandler`: The block to execute asynchronously with the results. Your app may execute this block on a background thread. The block has no return value and takes the following parameter:

## Mentioned in

Asking permission to use notifications

## Discussion

Discussion important: You can call this method from synchronous code using a completion handler, as shown on this page, or you can call it as an asynchronous method that has the following declaration: func notificationSettings() async -> UNNotificationSettings For information about concurrency and asynchronous code in Swift, see Calling Objective-C APIs Asynchronously. Use this method to determine the user interactions and notification-related features that the system authorizes your app to use. You might then use this information to enable or disable specific notification-related features of your app. let center = UNUserNotificationCenter.current() let settings = await center.notificationSettings() // Add code here to inspect or act on the settings. When the user initially grants authorization to your app, the system gives your app a set of default notification-related settings. The user may change those settings at any time to enable or disable specific capabilities. For example, the user might disable the playing of sounds when a notification arrives.

## See Also

### Managing the notification center

- [current()](usernotifications/unusernotificationcenter/current().md)
- [setBadgeCount(_:withCompletionHandler:)](usernotifications/unusernotificationcenter/setbadgecount(_:withcompletionhandler:).md)