Control notifications on Android

Depending what notifications you lot want, you lot tin can change settings for certain apps or for your whole phone. Notifications show when you swipe down from the top of your screen. Some notifications can also show on your lock screen and habitation screen.

Of import:

  • Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and up. Larn how to bank check your Android version.
  • Some of these steps require you to bear upon the screen.

Use notifications

Clear notifications

  • To clear one notification, swipe it left or correct.
  • To clear all notifications, ringlet to the bottom of your notifications and tap Articulate all.
  • To clear all silent notifications, adjacent to "silent notifications," tap Close

Tip: You can clear some notifications only when they're washed. For example, you can clear a music role player notification after you cease the music.

Snooze notifications

Plow on snoozing

  1. Open you phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications.
  3. Turn on Let notification snoozing.

Snooze a notification

To snooze a notification, drag information technology slightly left or right, and and then tap Snooze . To pick a fourth dimension, tap the Down arrow.

Reply, archive, aggrandize & more

  • To expand a notification, tap the Downwards pointer. And then, to act directly from a notification, tap an action, similar Reply or Archive.
  • Some apps testify a dot when you get a notification. Bear on and agree the app with the dot to meet the oldest notification. And then, clear each to show the next. Learn about notification dots.

Control emergency broadcast notifications

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

Of import: You lot can use this setting to manage certain emergency messages, similar disaster warnings, threat notifications, and Bister alerts. You tin turn alert types on or off, view by alerts, and control sound and vibration.

  1. Open up your telephone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap Notificationsand then Wireless emergency alerts.

You tin use this setting to manage certain emergency messages, similar disaster warnings, threat notifications, and AMBER alerts.

Choose how you're notified

Change notifications for your phone

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

  1. Open your phone'southward Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications and then Notifications on lock screen.
    • Choose your phone's notification defaults:
      • Show chat, default, and silent
      • Hide silent conversations and notifications
      • Don't show any notifications
    • To update more than notification preferences, under "Full general," turn notifications on or off:
      • Hide silent notifications in status bar
      • Let notification snoozing
      • Notification dot on app icon
      • Enhanced notifications

Turn notifications on or off for certain apps

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

Pick 1: In your Settings app

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Notifications and then App settings.
  3. Under "Near contempo," find apps that recently sent you notifications.
    • To find more apps, in the dropdown bill of fare, tap All apps.
  4. Tap the app.
  5. Turn the app's notifications on or off.
    • You can turn off all notifications for a listed app.
    • To pick specific categories of notifications, tap the app's name.

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

Option 2: On a notification

  1. To find your notifications, from the tiptop of your phone screen, swipe down.
  2. Touch and hold the notification, and and then tap Settings .
  3. Choose your settings:
    • To turn off all notifications, plough off All notifications.
    • Turn on or off notifications you want to receive.
    • To permit notification dots, turn on Allow notification dot.

Option 3: In the certain app

You lot can command many app notifications from a settings carte in the app. For example, an app could have a setting to cull the sound that app's notifications brand. To brand these changes, open up the app and search for the settings menu.

Choose if notifications interrupt you or stay silent

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

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

  • Alerting: Yous'll hear a sound, become a message on your lock screen, and find the app's icon in the status bar.
  • Silent: Your phone won't make a sound or vibrate. But the notification will testify up when yous swipe downwards from the top of your screen.

Selection 1: In your Settings app

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

Option 2: On a notification

  1. After you swipe down from the summit of your screen, drag the notification slightly right or left. Then tap Settings .
  2. Tap Alerting or Silent and thenApply.

Control how notifications show on your lock screen

Choice 1: Don't show whatever notifications

Of import: Settings tin vary by telephone. For more info, contact your device manufacturer.

  1. Open your phone'south Settings app.
  2. TapApps & notifications and then  Notifications.
  3. Under "Lock screen," tapNotifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
  4. ChooseDon't bear witness notifications.

Of import: If y'all pick this choice as your default, the setting applies to all apps. To block notifications from certain apps only, acquire how to change notifications by app.

Option 2: Testify all notifications

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

  1. Open your telephone'southward Settings app.
  2. TapApps & notifications and then Notifications.
  3. Under "Lock screen," tap Notifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
  4. Choose Bear witness alerting and silent notifications.
    • On some phones, choose Testify all notification content.

Tip:If y'all selection this choice as your default, y'all tin can still restrict certain apps on your lock screen. You tin can have certain apps "Hide sensitive notification content" or "Don't show notifications at all" on your lock screen. Larn how to change notifications by app.

Related resources

  • Larn how to employ lockdown
  • Change book, sound & vibrate settings
  • Silence your phone with Do Non Disturb
  • Find your chats and messages quickly

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