Choose how apps notify you

Turn off app notifications

When you receive unwanted notifications from an app, touch & hold the notification, then tap Turn off 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, tap 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, tap the app name, then turn notifications or off for each category.
    • To stop an app from showing notifications as a banner across the top of an unlocked screen, like those for incoming calls, tap the app name, (if needed, tap the notification type), then turn Pop on screen off for the category.
TipTo prevent notifications from all apps during certain times or calendar events, use Do Not Disturb.

Silence an app's notifications

Change to Silent

If you want an app's notifications to be less intrusive, you can categorize them:

  • Alerting: You'll hear a sound and feel vibration (if on), get a message on your lock screen, and can see the app's icon in your status bar.
  • Silent: You won't hear a sound or feel a vibration. But the notification will show up when you swipe down from the top of your screen.

Option 1: On a notification

  1. Touch & hold a notification.
  2. Tap Silent.

Option 2: In Settings

  1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > See all # apps, select the app, and tap Notifications.
  2. Tap the type of notification to change.
  3. Tap Silent.

Change notification volume

To adjust the volume level of all notifications:

  1. Press a Volume button and on the screen tap .
  2. Adjust the Ring volume slider.

Change notification sound

You can modify the notification sound for all apps, or assign a distinctive sound to notifications from a specific app, replacing the default.

Set default notification sound

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

  2. Do one of the following:

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

Set notification sound for a specific app

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

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

If you can't hear a notification

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

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

Turn on app notifications

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

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

Turn on snoozing

If you want to be able to snooze your notifications, turn on snoozing:

  1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications.
  2. Tap Advanced.
  3. Turn Allow notification snoozing on .

Turn notification dots off/on

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. Tap Advanced.
  3. Turn Allow notification dots off or on .

Turn dots off for one app

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

Control lock screen notifications

If you've set a pattern, PIN or password, you can control which type of notifications show on your lock screen and prevent them from revealing private information.

To adjust notifications for all apps:

  1. Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications.

  2. To hide sensitive content on your lock screen, turn Sensitive notifications off .

    You’ll get lock screen notifications for an incoming email or chat, but they won’t include message details.

    For finer control, leave this on to allow details, and instead hide sensitive content from specific apps.

  3. To change which notifications show on your lock screen (show all, hide notifications from apps you silenced, or hide all), tap Notifications on lock screen.

To hide sensitive content from specific apps:

  1. Set lock screen notifications for all apps to Show alerting and silent notifications.
  2. Touch & hold the app icon, then tap > Notifications.

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

    1. Tap the name.
    2. Tap Advanced > Lock screen > Show sensitive content only when unlocked.
TipWhen you turn on Lockdown, notifications won't show on your lock screen.