Android 8 provides greater control over how you receive notifications
Stop App from Sending Notifications
Turn off all notifications
- Touch & hold the app icon.
- Touch App info (the circled i) > App notifications.
- If the app includes notification categories, touch a notification category.
- Turn it off
You can also touch and hold a notification in the status bar and simply toggle notifications off.
Turn off some notifications
To see only some categories of notifications from the app:
- Touch & hold the status bar notification.
- Touch ALL CATEGORIES or MORE SETTINGS.
- For each category, turn options on or off .
You can control whether app icons show small, blue dots for unread notifications.
For All Apps:
- Go to Settings > Apps & notifications.
- Touch Notifications
- Turn Allow notification dots on or off .
For Individual Apps
- Touch & hold the app icon.
- Touch App Info (the circled i) > App notifications.
- Turn Allow notification dot on or off .
Bypass Do Not Disturb
To let an app's notifications be heard when Do not disturb is set to Priority only:
- Touch & hold the app icon.
- Touch App info (the circled i) > App notifications.
- If the app includes notification categories, touch a notification category.
- Turn Override Do Not Disturb on
Change list order
You can adjust the order of notifications in the list that appears when you swipe down from the status bar.
- Touch & hold the app icon.
- Touch App info (the circled i)> App notifications.
- If the app includes notification categories, touch a notification category.
- Touch Importance and set the level. Higher levels appear at the top of the list.
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