How Safari Notify Me Tracks Webpage Changes
Safari Notify Me, part of Apple Intelligence, can monitor selected webpages for changes and send alerts when conditions such as a price drop or product restock occur. Users can describe what to track in plain language and adjust the checking interval. The feature arrived with Apple’s September 2026 software releases, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate. Apple’s documentation does not establish detection accuracy for login-protected pages, CAPTCHA challenges, or dynamically generated inventory data. Notifications appear on the device running the monitor, rather than necessarily syncing to other devices.
Notify Me provides a built-in way to track changes to public webpages without a separate extension. However, device, language, and region restrictions, unresolved reliability questions, and uncertain cross-device notification behavior make it better suited to noncritical tracking than business-critical monitoring.
Safari’s Notify Me feature can monitor webpages for changes, including price drops and product restocks, then send an alert when it detects an update. Users describe what they want to track in plain language, without installing a separate app or browser extension.
The feature arrived with Apple’s September 2026 software releases, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate. For IT teams, the main questions are whether managed devices support Apple Intelligence, where notifications appear, and whether the feature is reliable enough for workplace use.
How to set up Safari Notify Me alerts
Apple introduced Notify Me as part of its new Apple Intelligence features. It allows Safari to check a selected webpage for a change described by the user.
For example, someone could ask Safari to notify them when a product falls below a particular price or an out-of-stock item becomes available again.
On iPhone
According to Apple’s iPhone instructions, users can create an alert in five steps:
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