Control notifications on Android

Depending what notifications you want, you lot tin can change settings for certain apps or for your whole phone. Notifications bear witness when you swipe downwardly from the superlative of your screen. Some notifications can likewise show on your lock screen and home screen.

Important:

  • Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and upwards. Learn how to bank check your Android version.
  • Some of these steps require you lot to touch the screen.

Use notifications

Clear notifications

  • To articulate one notification, swipe it left or right.
  • To clear all notifications, scroll to the bottom of your notifications and tap Clear all.
  • To clear all silent notifications, adjacent to "silent notifications," tap Close

Tip: You lot can clear some notifications merely when they're done. For example, you can articulate a music player notification after you stop the music.

Snooze notifications

Plough on snoozing

  1. Open y'all phone'south Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications.
  3. Plough on Allow notification snoozing.

Snooze a notification

To snooze a notification, drag it slightly left or correct, and then tap Snooze . To selection a fourth dimension, tap the Down arrow.

Respond, archive, expand & more

  • To expand a notification, tap the Down arrow. Then, to human activity directly from a notification, tap an action, similar Reply or Archive.
  • Some apps evidence a dot when you get a notification. Bear on and hold the app with the dot to see the oldest notification. So, clear each to show the next. Larn about notification dots.

Control emergency broadcast notifications

Of import: Settings can vary past phone. For more info, contact your device manufacturer.

Important: Yous can utilize this setting to manage certain emergency messages, similar disaster warnings, threat notifications, and Bister alerts. You can turn alarm types on or off, view past alerts, and control audio and vibration.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Notificationsand then Wireless emergency alerts.

You tin utilize this setting to manage certain emergency messages, like disaster warnings, threat notifications, and Bister alerts.

Choose how you're notified

Change notifications for your phone

Important: Settings can vary by telephone. For more info, contact your device manufacturer.

  1. Open your telephone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications and then Notifications on lock screen.
    • Choose your phone's notification defaults:
      • Prove conversation, default, and silent
      • Hibernate silent conversations and notifications
      • Don't testify any notifications
    • To update more than notification preferences, nether "General," turn notifications on or off:
      • Hide silent notifications in status bar
      • Let notification snoozing
      • Notification dot on app icon
      • Enhanced notifications

Plough notifications on or off for sure apps

Of import: Settings can vary past phone. For more info, contact your device manufacturer.

Option 1: In your Settings app

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications and then App settings.
  3. Under "Well-nigh recent," discover apps that recently sent you notifications.
    • To notice more than apps, in the dropdown menu, tap All apps.
  4. Tap the app.
  5. Turn the app's notifications on or off.
    • You tin plow off all notifications for a listed app.
    • To pick specific categories of notifications, tap the app'due south proper noun.

Tip:If yous don't see "Recently sent," you're using an older Android version. Instead, tap App notifications and tap an app. You can turn notifications, notification dots, and notification categories on or off. If an app has categories, you tin can tap a category for more options.

Choice 2: On a notification

  1. To discover your notifications, from the top of your phone screen, swipe downwardly.
  2. Touch and agree the notification, and so tap Settings .
  3. Choose your settings:
    • To plow off all notifications, plow off All notifications.
    • Plow on or off notifications you want to receive.
    • To allow notification dots, turn on Let notification dot.

Pick 3: In the certain app

You tin can control many app notifications from a settings menu in the app. For case, an app could have a setting to choose the sound that app'southward notifications brand. To make these changes, open the app and search for the settings menu.

Choose if notifications interrupt you or stay silent

Of import: Settings can vary by phone. For more than info, contact your device manufacturer.

On some Android devices, you can choose what kind of notifications an app sends you:

  • Alerting: You'll hear a sound, get a message on your lock screen, and detect the app's icon in the condition bar.
  • Silent: Your phone won't make a audio or vibrate. But the notification will testify up when you swipe down from the peak of your screen.

Option 1: In your Settings app

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Apps & notifications and thenNotifications.
  3. Nether "Recently Sent," tap an app.
  4. Tap a type of notification.
  5. Cull your options:
    • Choose Alerting or Silent.
    • To encounter a banner for alerting notifications when your phone is unlocked, plough on Pop on screen.
    • If you chose "Silent," yous can turn Minimize on or off.

Selection 2: On a notification

  1. Subsequently y'all swipe down from the summit of your screen, drag the notification slightly correct or left. So tap Settings .
  2. Tap Alerting or Silent and thenEmploy.

Control how notifications bear witness on your lock screen

Option ane: Don't show any notifications

Of import: Settings tin vary past phone. For more than info, contact your device manufacturer.

  1. Open your telephone'due south Settings app.
  2. TapApps & notifications and then  Notifications.
  3. Nether "Lock screen," tapNotifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
  4. CullDon't show notifications.

Important: If yous pick this selection equally your default, the setting applies to all apps. To block notifications from certain apps but, learn how to modify notifications by app.

Pick 2: Show all notifications

Important: Settings tin vary past phone. For more than info, contact your device manufacturer.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. TapApps & notifications and then Notifications.
  3. Nether "Lock screen," tap Notifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
  4. Cull Show alerting and silent notifications.
    • On some phones, cull Show all notification content.

Tip:If you pick this option as your default, you can nonetheless restrict sure apps on your lock screen. You can have certain apps "Hibernate sensitive notification content" or "Don't show notifications at all" on your lock screen. Acquire how to change notifications by app.

Related resources

  • Learn how to use lockdown
  • Change volume, sound & vibrate settings
  • Silence your phone with Do Not Disturb
  • Find your chats and messages quickly

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