Never on day one for no reason. Only at the moment a notification would actually help — after a real event, scan, or pickup is on the line.
Quieta does not ask for notification permission the moment you sign in. There's nothing to remind you about yet. Instead, the prompt arrives the first time it can do something: right after you create your first event, right after a successful flyer scan, or just before your first departure ping is about to fire.
The prompt explains exactly what kind of notification is coming — "We'll remind you 30 minutes before you need to leave for soccer" — not the generic Apple sentence by itself.
The Stream still shows everything. Capture still works. Live Activities still appear on your Lock Screen during real events. What you lose is push notifications — the alerts that fire when the app isn't open, like the morning briefing or a co-parent asking you to cover a pickup.
Quieta won't ask twice in the same session. If you change your mind later, the prompt comes back the next time a notification would have helped you.
Open the iPhone Settings app, scroll to Quieta, tap Notifications, and flip Allow Notifications on. Pick the alert styles you want — banners, Lock Screen, Notification Center.
Then open Quieta and head to Settings → Notifications. From there you can fine-tune what you actually hear about: morning briefing only, departure pings only, Asks from your co-parent, or all of it. Quiet hours respect your sleep schedule on every channel.