Command notifications on Android

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

Important:

  • Some of these steps piece of work simply on Android 10 and up. Learn how to cheque your Android version.
  • Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.

Utilise notifications

Clear notifications

  • To articulate ane notification, swipe information technology left or right.
  • To clear all notifications, scroll to the bottom of your notifications and tap Clear all.
  • To clear all silent notifications, next to "silent notifications," tap Shut

Tip: Y'all tin articulate some notifications only when they're done. For instance, you can clear a music histrion notification after y'all stop the music.

Snooze notifications

Plow on snoozing

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

Snooze a notification

To snooze a notification, elevate it slightly left or correct, and then tap Snooze . To pick a time, tap the Downwards arrow.

Respond, annal, expand & more

  • To expand a notification, tap the Down arrow. Then, to act directly from a notification, tap an action, similar Answer or Archive.
  • Some apps show a dot when you become a notification. Touch and concur the app with the dot to see the oldest notification. Then, clear each to show the next. Learn about notification dots.

Command emergency circulate notifications

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

Important: You can employ this setting to manage sure emergency letters, like disaster warnings, threat notifications, and Bister alerts. You can turn alert types on or off, view past alerts, and control sound and vibration.

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

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

Choose how you're notified

Change notifications for your telephone

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

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

Turn notifications on or off for sure apps

Important: Settings can vary by telephone. 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 "Most contempo," find apps that recently sent you notifications.
    • To notice more apps, in the dropdown menu, tap All apps.
  4. Tap the app.
  5. Turn the app's notifications on or off.
    • You tin turn off all notifications for a listed app.
    • To pick specific categories of notifications, tap the app'due south name.

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

Option 2: On a notification

  1. To detect your notifications, from the top of your phone screen, swipe down.
  2. Touch on and hold the notification, and then tap Settings .
  3. Choose your settings:
    • To turn off all notifications, turn off All notifications.
    • Plow on or off notifications you desire to receive.
    • To let notification dots, turn on Let notification dot.

Option 3: In the certain app

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

Choose if notifications interrupt you or stay silent

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

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

  • Alerting: Y'all'll hear a sound, get a bulletin on your lock screen, and find the app'due south icon in the status bar.
  • Silent: Your telephone won't make a sound or vibrate. Only the notification will testify up when you swipe down from the top 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:
    • Cull Alerting or Silent.
    • To see a banner for alerting notifications when your phone is unlocked, turn on Pop on screen.
    • If you chose "Silent," you lot tin can turn Minimize on or off.

Selection ii: On a notification

  1. After you swipe down from the height of your screen, elevate 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

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

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

Of import: If you pick this option every bit your default, the setting applies to all apps. To block notifications from certain apps just, learn how to change notifications past app.

Option 2: Prove all notifications

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

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

Tip:If yous option this option as your default, you tin can all the same restrict certain apps on your lock screen. You tin can accept certain apps "Hide sensitive notification content" or "Don't show notifications at all" on your lock screen. Learn how to modify notifications by app.

Related resource

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  • Silence your telephone with Do Not Disturb
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