Managing Notifications (Android 8.x) - moto e5 play

Android 8 provides greater control over how you receive notifications

Stop App from Sending Notifications

Turn off all notifications

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch App info (the circled i) > App notifications.
3. If the app includes notification categories, touch a notification category.
4. 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:

1. Touch & hold the status bar notification.
2. Touch ALL CATEGORIES or MORE SETTINGS.
3. For each category, turn options on or off .

You can control whether app icons show small, blue dots for unread notifications.

For All Apps:

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

For Individual Apps

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch App Info (the circled i) > App notifications.
3. 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:

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch App info (the circled i) > App notifications.
3. If the app includes notification categories, touch a notification category.
4. 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.

1. Touch & hold the app icon.
2. Touch App info (the circled i)> App notifications.
3. If the app includes notification categories, touch a notification category.
4. Touch Importance and set the level. Higher levels appear at the top of the list.