Getting fed up with nonstop notifications? Here is how to manage your Android phone’s notifications. You can shut them down completely or prioritize them according to requirements and importance. So no need to turn your phone to silent or DnD.
Android comes with a range of tools to help turn these incessant interruptions into useful reminders. In this post, we compiled a number of ways that can enable you to take notification priority. And you will also learn to use your notifications shade to control your music.
Easily Manage your Android phone’s notifications.
You can start by turning off notifications for certain apps. Don’t uninstall the app, there is a very simple way you can manage the way an app spams your notifications bar. It gives you the ability to temporarily snooze notifications, or just turn them off permanently.
Just go to the ‘Apps and notifications’ in your settings and select ‘Notifications’. This will display a list of the apps that have recently sent notifications. Tap ‘See all from last seven days’, and you can see a more extensive list of apps.
Tap the ‘most recent’ button to change the way this list is filtered. This way it will display all of your apps or ‘most frequent’ first. You can also tap the magnifying glass icon in the top-right to search for a specific app by name.
You can turn off all notifications with a simple switch of the toggle icon next to each app’s name. If you tap on an app, you can make a more bespoke alert block, choosing exactly the type of notifications an app sends to turn off.
And you can Silence less important notifications
Swipe down from the top of your screen to open the notifications shade. Drag a notification either left or right, and tap the gear icon to access its settings. This will provide a choice of leaving alerts. This means they’ll appear on your phone, but won’t announce themselves with a ping or a vibration.
Those with Android 11 can also set it so silent notifications don’t appear in your status bar. It’s a great way to declutter the top of your screen, so all-important alerts appear alongside the time and your phone signal strength. To enable this, head to ‘Notifications’ and select ‘Advanced’. From here, turn on ‘Hide silent notifications in the status bar.
Similarly you can also snooze notifications and check on them later. To enable just head over to Apps and notifications’ in your settings, select Notifications. Scroll down and tap ‘Advanced’. Next, you just need to turn on ‘Allow notification snoozing‘.
After that simply drag any notification you receive slightly left or right. Then next to the gear icon, there will be a new one that looks like an alarm clock with a ‘Z’ in the middle. Tap this and then tap the Down arrow to pick how long you want to snooze it for.
Hide private notifications from Lock Screen
Don’t want the contents of your emails and text messages flashing up on your lock screen? Just go to ‘Apps and notifications’ in your settings. Then select ‘Notifications’ from the list of options that appear. Then flick the ‘Sensitive notifications’ toggle into the off position.
You’ll still receive alerts from apps once this is done, but the contents will be hidden until you unlock your device.