How to Schedule Fake Notifications on iPhone

There are two ways to fake a notification: photoshop a screenshot, or schedule a real one with content you control. LarpBank's LarpNotifications feature does the second - real local iOS notifications, gated by Apple's own permission system, with a title and message you write yourself.

Most "fake notification" results are either a photo editor template or a static image generator - fine for a single screenshot, useless the moment someone taps it or it needs to feel present in real time. LarpNotifications takes the other approach: it schedules an actual local iOS notification, through Apple's own notification system, with a title and message you write.

Here's the exact process.

Setting up a basic notification

1. Open LarpBank and tap the notification bell from any screen, or open LarpNotifications from the sidebar.
2. Grant notification permission the first time you're prompted - this is Apple's standard system prompt, not anything LarpBank adds on top.
3. Write a title and message for the alert, the same way you would compose any app's notification text.
4. Set a count if you want more than one notification, and an interval in minutes between each.
5. Confirm, then lock your phone or switch apps - the notification fires exactly like any real alert would, because it is one.

Using advanced mode for an instant lock-screen look

Sometimes you don't want to wait for a scheduled alert - you need a lock-screen shot right now, styled as a specific app. Advanced mode (currently in beta) covers that case:

1. Open LarpNotifications and switch to Advanced.
2. Choose any app icon and app name to style the fake lock screen - it doesn't need to match a real installed app.
3. Write the notification title and body text you want displayed.
4. Render the fake lock screen in-app for an immediate, controllable preview - no waiting on a real scheduled delivery.

Troubleshooting a notification that doesn't fire

A scheduled notification that never arrives almost always traces back to one of three things:

• Notification permission was denied or later revoked. Check Settings → Notifications → LarpBank and confirm Allow Notifications is on - without it, iOS silently drops the alert before it ever reaches the lock screen.
• Focus or Do Not Disturb is filtering it. Since these are real notifications, they follow the same Focus-mode rules as every other app; a Focus profile that only allows certain apps through will hold LarpNotifications back exactly the way it would any other app.
• The interval hasn't elapsed yet. Basic mode schedules on the count and interval you set at creation - a 5-minute interval means the second notification genuinely won't appear for 5 minutes, even with the app in the foreground.

None of these are LarpBank-specific quirks - they're the same three things worth checking for any app whose notifications aren't showing up.

Where this fits with the rest of LarpBank

LarpNotifications is a cross-cutting feature, not its own mode - it's reachable from the sidebar and the notification bell on every screen in LarpBank, whether you're in the bank, crypto, stocks, profit-cards, or storefront view. That makes it useful well beyond banking scenes: a notification about a crypto price move, a storefront sale, or a stock alert works exactly the same way. It's also the backbone of using LarpBank as a prop phone app for film and content creation, where the advanced mode's on-demand lock screen matters most.

All data is fictional and stored locally.