Learn how to turn off notifications, stop getting distracted by your cell phone and focus only on your activities. It's very easy!
Often, notifications on our phones end up distracting us and hindering our productivity in our daily lives, as they pique our curiosity and we stop what we are doing to see what's new on our phones. To put an end to this problem, Android phones allow users to disable or adjust app notifications through the system settings.
You can choose which apps can send you alerts or display content on the lock screen. When you turn off notifications, apps won't make a sound or vibrate when a new message arrives.
Learn how to disable app notifications on your Android phone and focus on your daily activities.
How to disable app notifications on your Android phone
Settings may change depending on versions from Android or cell phone manufacturers, in addition to the versions interface.
Turning off notifications means that the app won't alert you when new content is available. To stop receiving notifications from specific apps, you can:
- Access your cell phone settings and select “Notifications”;
- Next, select “App Notifications” and uncheck the app you want to stop receiving notifications from. If the app doesn’t appear in the initial list, make sure the list is showing “All” instead of “Most Frequent” or “Most Recent.”
How to Disable Android Floating Notifications
Floating notifications appear on your screen as app icons and open a pop-up for you to interact with the app. To disable these notifications and prevent the icons from appearing on your screen, do the following:
- Access your cell phone settings and select the “Notifications” tab;
- Tap on “Advanced settings” and then on “Floating notifications”;
- Check the “Disabled” option.
How to disable notification preview on Android
Preview allows the user to see the content of the notification on the Android phone's lock screen. You can disable this feature for everyone the apps or for specific ones. To disable them all, do this:
- Access your device settings and select the “Notifications” option;
- Tap “Lock Screen Notifications” and then tap “Hide Content.”
To turn off notifications for specific apps, you must:
- Access your cell phone settings and select the “Notifications” option;
- Tap “Lock Screen Notifications” and then tap the gear icon next to “Show Content”;
- Then uncheck the app that you don't want to display the notification preview on your Android phone's screen.
How to disable notifications on the lock screen of your Android phone
App notifications on Android appear on the screen blocked, regardless of whether the phone is locked or not. To prevent these notifications from being displayed on the screen, you can disable the option for all apps or for specific ones.
To disable across all apps:
- Access your cell phone settings and select the “Notifications” tab;
- Click on “Lock Screen Notifications” and uncheck the “On” option.
To turn off lock screen notifications for specific apps:
- Access your device settings and select the “Notifications” option;
- Click on “App notifications” and then click on the name of the app;
- Uncheck the “Lock screen” option.
How to disable sound and vibration
An alternative to not disabling notifications completely is to disable the sound and vibration of alerts on your Android phone.
How to disable sound and vibration for all notifications:
- Access the settings and go to “Sounds and vibration”;
- Click on “Notification sound”;
- Set the “Silent” option.
How to disable sound and vibration for notifications from some apps:
- Go to settings and select “Notifications”;
- Go to “App Notifications” and then click on the name of the app you want to disable the sound or vibration for.
- Set the “Silent” option.
