How to Turn Off App Push Notifications on Phone

Can you imagine a day without getting a single notification on your mobile device? Well, that could be a scary thought, right? With a plethora of apps at your disposal, it is quite hard to finally break free from all notifications. But wait, there is a way out! You can now turn off app notifications on your apps.

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Getting overwhelmed and stressed out because of constant push messages? It’s time to put a full-stop! In this blog, we will tell you how you can turn off notifications on your iPhone and Android and lead a more peaceful life.

Your path to tranquillity lies ahead. Firstly, let’s begin by understanding in detail, what exactly is a push notification. 

What are push notifications?

For those not in the know, push notifications are the constant banner-based notifications that appear on your smartphone. These can be from a multitude of sources – the apps installed on your device, your browser, or anything else. Ideally, they are about marked events on your calendar, your postpaid bill payment notifications, and so on. 

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Benefits of turning off push notifications

If you had thought that just deleting your social media apps would bring you peace, then we have some bad news for you. The thing is, push notifications can keep track of our personal as well as professional lives. Therefore, if you are feeling mentally exhausted and just want to give your brain the break it deserves, switching off your push notifications is the way to go.

Here is the set of benefits that you experience when you turn off push notifications on your smartphone:

1. Fewer distractions can help you focus more on your work.
2. You can finally prioritise the things that matter instead of getting constantly derailed by push notifications. 
3. There will be a drop in your regular screen time, which leads to plenty of additional advantages, such as better sleep.
4. You will start using your smartphone as a tool which helps you with your daily activities, instead of something to play with and pass your time.

The point is, when you turn off app notifications or push notifications on your devices, you get to experience peace. It helps you to set your boundaries and improves some of your habits too. In addition, it will eventually make you feel that you are more in control. 

If you are someone who really needs to take it slow and get rid of annoying notifications, it is time to disable all such app notifications or push notifications on your Android or iPhone.

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How to turn off push notifications on Android?

Before you go ahead and disable the apps or push notifications from your device, make sure you have a proper plan – know which apps you wish to disable. Now, let us take you through the ways to disable these apps:

Try the Do Not Disturb mode

There are two ways to this method:

• Drag down your notification bar and click on Do Not Disturb right away.
• Or you can go to Settings > Sound > Do Not Disturb > Priority only.

Once you have enabled the Do Not Disturb mode, you can also modify the settings to ensure that some apps still show notifications. 

Turn off lock screen notifications

Here is how you can turn off push notifications on specific Android devices:

• Go to your app library.
• Long press on an app and click on App Info.
• Select Notifications.
• Now, you can choose to completely disable all notifications from this app or a specific set of notifications (you could refer to the list).

Choose the one that suits you best.

Note: This is how you proceed on a stock Android phone. The process will be similar when you use any other Android device.

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How to turn off push notifications on your iPhone?

No matter which iPhone you have, the process to turn off push notifications for your iPhone will be the same more or less. Here is how you can proceed:

• Open settings and go to notifications.
• Scroll down and you will see the notification style.
• You will see a list of all the apps on your phone and the notification settings for each.
• Disable push notifications for all the apps that you want, from the list that you had made. 

If you are someone who is facing issues with productivity because of push notifications but does not want to completely turn them off, then you can try out focus mode solutions. These are time-based solutions which have been designed to make you focus better (that’s where they get their name from). 

In addition, when you are installing an app on your smartphone for the very first time, it is always suggested to check if you really need notifications from it. If not required, click ‘No’. For example, let’s say, you just downloaded a new gaming app. You surely won’t need any notifications for it and can click ‘no’ if the app asks for notifications (unless you are into it). 

Turning off push notifications on your devices is like a deep cleaning activity. Do it today, and you will thank us later.