The short answer
The Sun, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
15 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 15.6). Over the last twelve months The Sun sent 2,231 notifications, pushing on 143 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 12:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-06-17, with 33 pushes.
The daily clock
All of The Sun's pushes from the last twelve months, on United Kingdom's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 12:00.
The Sunpeak 12:007.8% of The Sun's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the United Kingdom timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 16.6 The Sun pushes and a weekend day 13.2: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How The Sun writes a push
| Habit | The Sun | United Kingdom median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 12 | 9 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 90 | 69 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 1.8% | 0.6% |
| Phrased as a question | 2.0% | 2.0% |
Aggregates over every The Sun notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other United Kingdom apps
Every United Kingdom news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. The Sun is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mirror | 2,271 | 11 | 07:00 |
| 2 | The Sun | 2,231 | 15 | 12:00 |
| 3 |  DailyMail | 2,018 | 10 | 20:00 |
| 4 |  Sky News | 1,937 | 9.0 | 07:00 |
| 5 |  The Telegraph | 1,699 | 8.0 | 21:00 |
| 6 |  Daily Express | 1,185 | 9 | 07:00 |
| 7 |  GB News | 1,054 | 10.0 | 10:00 |
| 8 |  FT | 1,009 | 5.0 | 11:00 |
| 9 |  The Times | 359 | 4.0 | 20:00 |
| 10 |  The i Paper | 175 | 2.0 | 07:00 |
| 11 |  Independent | 127 | 1 | 07:00 |
Method
AO.news runs a fleet of phones with hundreds of news apps installed and every notification switched on; each push is recorded the moment it lands. This page counts the 2,231 notifications The Sun sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Europe/London local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added to our phones mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach our devices. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.