When you receive unwanted notifications from an app, touch & hold the notification, then touch Stop notifications.

To review all apps and adjust whether they can send notifications:

1. Swipe down to view your notifications.
2. At the bottom of the list, touch Manage notifications.

3. Do one of the following:

   • To stop all notifications from an app, turn it off .
   • To stop certain notifications from an app, touch the app name, then turn notifications or off for each category.

For each app, you can control how urgently that app's notifications alert you when they arrive. You can choose between having notifications:

• Make sound and pop on screen
• Make sound
• Show silently
• Show silently and minimize (only show in your notification list)

To change the urgency of an app's notifications:

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch > Notifications.
3. Touch the name of a checkmarked notification category, then touch Behavior and make a selection.

TipTo adjust several apps at once, go to Settings > Apps & notifications, touch to see all apps. Then touch Notifications for each app and adjust behavior.

To adjust the volume level of all notifications:

1. Press a Volume button and on the screen touch .
2. Adjust the slider.

To change the sound for all app notifications:

1. Go to Settings > Sound > Default notification sound.

2. Do one of the following:

   • To change it, choose a new sound.
   • To turn notification sounds off, select None.

To change the notification sound for a specific app:

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch > Notifications.

3. Touch the category for enabled notifications, then touch Advanced > Sound and select a unique ringtone, or set it to none.

   If you don't see Sound, touch Behavior and select an option that includes sound.

To let an app's notifications be heard when Do Not Disturb is on:

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch > Notifications.
3. Touch the category for enabled notifications, then touch Advanced and turn Override Do Not Disturb on .

If an app isn't sending notifications but you want it to:

1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications.
2. Touch See all from last ### days.
3. At the top, touch and select Turned off.
4. Turn notifications on as needed.

App icons show dots to alert you about unread notifications. You can turn off dots for one or all apps.

Turn dots off for all apps

1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications.
2. Turn Allow notification dots on or off .

Turn dots off for one app

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch > Notifications.
3. Touch Advanced.
4. Turn Allow notification dot on or off .

If you've set a pattern, PIN or password, you can prevent lock screen notifications from revealing private information.

To adjust notifications for all apps:

1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications.
2. Touch On lock screen.

3. Do one of the following:

   • To hide all notifications on your lock screen, select Don't show notifications at all. You can still peek at your notifications--swipe down on the lock screen, then enter your pattern, PIN, or password if required.
   • To hide sensitive content in notifications from all apps, select Hide sensitive content. For example, you'll get a lock screen notification for an incoming email or chat, but it won't include message details.
   • To see all notifications on your lock screen, select Show all notification content.

To hide sensitive content from specific apps:

1. Set lock screen notifications for all apps to Show all notification content.
2. Touch & hold the app icon, then touch > Notifications.

3. Types of notifications the app sends appear here. For each enabled notification that you want to hide:

   1. Touch the name.
   2. Touch Advanced > On lock screen > Hide sensitive content.