{
  "id": 10687078,
  "title": "Feature Request: One change for the most important use of Notify Me",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/feature-request-one-change-for-the-most-important-use-of-notify-me",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-29T11:54:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "9to5Mac",
    "slug": "9to5mac",
    "url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/29/feature-request-one-change-for-the-most-important-use-of-notify-me/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In the latest macOS 27 update, Safari introduces the Notify Me function, powered by Apple Intelligence. This feature automatically monitors web pages for updates and notifies users when changes occur. While this is a valuable tool for various purposes, including price drops, it falls short in a crucial scenario for many users: waiting for ticket sales.\n\nTicket sales often sell out within minutes, sometimes even 20 to 30 minutes later than promised. Users frequently find themselves manually refreshing the website, only to discover that all tickets are already sold out or that the seats they wanted are no longer available. This repetitive task is both time-consuming and frustrating.\n\nThe Notify Me feature offers a potential solution, but it's currently limited to checking the website only once every hour. This frequency is insufficient to keep up with the fast-paced nature of ticket sales, as the sales window could open up to an hour after the promised time.\n\nTo address this issue, users are requesting a simple change: the ability to set the check frequency to every minute or even every 15 seconds. However, Apple would need to implement safeguards to prevent abuse. For instance, limiting high-frequency checks to a maximum period of 30 minutes, with a reset every month, could mitigate potential denial of service attacks.\n\nThe author hopes that by implementing this change, users would no longer need to manually refresh websites as frequently, freeing up their time for more productive tasks. They invite readers to share their thoughts in a poll and engage in the conversation on 9to5Mac's YouTube channel.",
  "summary": "A key new feature in macOS 27 is Safari’s Notify Me function . This has the Apple Intelligence automatically monitor a web page for updates and send a notification when it occurs. This feature can be useful in a wide variety of ways, with price drops being one of the most obvious. Unfortunately, a limitation means that it doesn’t yet support what I would consider the most important use case for…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}