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How to display appointment alerts on your phone

Learn how to display appointment notifications from Zocdoc on your phone

Updated over a year ago

Use your favorite email app to display appointment email notifications from Zocdoc on your phone. Read more about other ways you can get notified of Zocdoc appointments.

iPhone

In iPhone’s default Mail app, you can choose which email addresses to receive notifications from. To get started, make sure that you have enabled notifications on Mail.

  1. Select Settings, then scroll down and tap on “Mail.”

  2. Tap on “Notifications” and toggle “Allow Notifications” on.

  3. Select how you want your notifications to appear.

Follow these steps to set up notifications from Zocdoc:

  1. Add this email to your phone contacts: service@mail6.zocdoc.com (consider calling this contact “Zocdoc appointments”).

  2. Navigate to your Mail app, and click on the “VIP” inbox

  3. Select “Add VIP” and add the Zocdoc email contact.

  4. From there, click on “VIP Alerts” so that you can customize what kind of alerts you receive on your phone from Zocdoc.

Android devices

The default email app on Android phones is the Gmail app. For iPhone, we recommend using the default Mail app, which you can see steps for above.

First, on your computer, open Gmail and add Zocdoc to a new label:

  1. Click on the gears on the top right to open Settings, then click on “See all settings.”

  2. Select “Filters and Blocked Addresses” and then click on “Create a new filter.”

  3. In the From field, add “service@mail6.zocdoc.com.” Click “Create filter.”

  4. Next, check “Apply the label” and then click on “Choose label.” From there, click on “New label” and enter a new label name, such as “Zocdoc appointments.”

  5. Once the label is created, then you can click “Create filter.” Then, you will see your new label, e.g., “Zocdoc appointments,” under Labels on the left hand side of your Gmail inbox.

Then, you can set up phone notifications for your new Zocdoc label:

  1. Open the Gmail app.

  2. At the top, tap the 3-bar menu and then “Settings” at the bottom of the menu.

  3. Select your account, and tap “Manage Labels.”

  4. Tap on your new “Zocdoc appointments” label.

  5. Tap on “Sync Messages” and select a time period.

  6. Tap to check the boxes for “Label notification” and “Notify for every message.”

  7. Make sure your notifications for both Email and Inbox are on.

See Google’s support page and this article for more details.

Microsoft Outlook app

You can mark contacts as favorites to see their related notifications first. Mark service@mail6.zocdoc.com as a favorite by opening its profile card, then selecting the star at the top left of the card. You can then set notifications for the Zocdoc contact. Please see Microsoft Outlook’s support page for more details.

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