How to turn off notifications on Android and why they don’t arrive

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The most effective way to communicate with website visitors in 2019 is push notifications. Site administrators who are mastering this technology are faced with the following problem: push notifications do not arrive on Android. What push messages are needed for and how to solve delivery problems can be found in this article.

What are notifications and what do they look like?

Today, many of us are more active in email, social networks or instant messengers. With this approach, your phone will constantly receive various notifications from all applications that are installed on it. These may be notifications that

there is an incoming call or it was missed,
a new letter arrived in the mail,
someone liked it on Instagram
someone commented on your post on Facebook,
an answer came to WhatsApp (WhatsApp), for example, about the place and time of the meeting
and so on.

Notifications on an Android phone are a short one-line message on the main page of the phone that something new has appeared: there is a call, a letter received, a message from the messenger, a like, a comment, etc.

Notifications on the phone's Home page may look like this:

Rice. 1. Notifications on your phone

To delete one notification, you need to swipe left or right on it. Then it will disappear from the Home page of the smartphone.

Is life good with notifications?

Of course, each Android user decides for himself what is good for him and what is bad. But the fact is that all notifications coming to the phone are usually accompanied by sound signals. You may like it at first, but sooner or later it starts to get boring.

In public transport, in a store or at a pedestrian crossing, you can often hear how people around you receive various sound signals (and these are not calls) on their phones with enviable regularity, notifying them about a new comment, like, message, letter and similar activity on their phone. the vastness of the Internet.

It is possible (and even highly desirable) to set the “Do Not Disturb” mode on your phone, for example, from 22:00 to 7:00. However, the rest of the time, during the day it would be nice to work and have time to do a lot of different things. It is known that if you are constantly distracted by various notifications, it is almost impossible to get anything done to the end, and do it well.

In this case, you can, of course, radically solve the issue and simply remove those applications from your phone that constantly distract you. But this doesn't always help. For example, Facebook will continue to stubbornly send notifications from the browser on your phone (although you can turn them off).

I propose to go the other way - turn off notifications that are sent by not the most important applications. After all, there are applications that can calmly wait until the moment when there is time to log into them, look at new messages that have arrived and, if necessary, respond.

What else could it be

It is rare, but it happens that notifications from a service (for example, a social network or instant messenger) stop arriving due to a failure on the part of this service. In this case, you will not be able to solve the problem yourself: you just have to wait until the problem is solved on their part.
In your phone's main settings, make sure the date, time, and time zone are set correctly. If they are not, correct them.
Try rebooting your phone, sometimes this works and fixes the notifications.
There are third-party applications that change the system interface, antiviruses and some others that can disable (hide) notifications. If they stop coming after installing some new Android system applications, try temporarily disabling such applications and check if this fixes the situation.

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How to turn off notifications on Android?

Notifications can be turned off and then turned on again if necessary. In short, for this you need:

Open "Applications" on Android.
Find “Application Manager” there.
Next, you need to find and open the application for which you need to disable (or enable) notifications.
To turn off notifications for an application that is open in the Application Manager, you need to click on the green checkbox next to “Show notifications”. After this, the cell will become empty, and notifications will no longer be received.
To enable notifications, you need to click on the empty box opposite “Show notifications” so that a green checkmark appears. Then notifications for the open application will be displayed on the phone.

When disabling or enabling notifications, you should also look at the smartphone’s Internet access settings, which will be discussed NEXT.

Let's consider the five points listed above in detail. The above screenshots were taken on Android version 5.0.2.

Open “Applications” on Android (Fig. 2):

Rice. 2. Applications

In “Applications” we find “Settings” (Fig. 3):

Rice. 3. Settings

In “Settings” there is a “Device” tab, in which the “Application Manager” is located (Fig. 4):

Rice. 4. Application Manager

In the Application Manager, you need to find and open the application for which you want to disable notifications. For example in Fig. 5 the Gmail application is open:

Rice. 5. A green checkmark gives the go-ahead to display notifications on Android

A green checkmark next to the line “Show notifications” (Fig. 5) means that your phone will receive notifications online, “here and now” about each new letter that arrives in the mail. Moreover, if the letter is clearly spam, but for some reason it did not end up in the Spam folder, then a notification about such a spam letter will also be sent and received on the phone.

To turn off notifications, touch the green checkmark next to “Show notifications” with your finger (Fig. 5). The “Turn off notifications?” window immediately pops up. (Fig. 6):

Rice. 6. Turn off notifications

There is a saying: “The main thing is to crow, and then at least not dawn.” It is customary to speak this way to confirm one’s non-involvement in anything and one’s unwillingness to take responsibility for the further course of events.

It seems that the Android operating system on the phone is acting precisely in accordance with this popular wisdom, which honestly tries to crow, that is, warn the user: “If you turn off notifications for this application, you may miss important notifications or updates” (Fig. 6).

Being of a strong mind and sound memory, click “Yes” (Fig. 6). After this, the box opposite “Show notifications” will become empty (Fig. 7):

Rice. 7. Notifications will not be displayed

From this moment on, checking new letters that will arrive in the Gmail inbox becomes the user’s task, since notifications will no longer be sent to the smartphone. If you have multiple mailboxes connected to the Gmail app, notifications will not be sent to all mailboxes at the same time.

To enable notifications for an application, you need to check the box so that it turns green in the “Show notifications” field (Fig. 8).

For example, for the WhatsApp application, you can leave notifications that a new message has appeared there:

Rice. 8. For WhatsApp, notifications are displayed

Thus, for each application separately, you can configure notifications: display them or not display them.

Notifications do not arrive on Android due to Internet access

Also, the reason why notifications arrive or do not arrive on Android depends on how the smartphone accesses the Internet:

via Wi-Fi,
or from a SIM card.

The operation of Android applications can be configured depending on whether the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network or whether it works only from a SIM card, that is, it accesses the Internet through the services of a cellular operator.

If your smartphone is configured to receive notifications from certain applications, then these applications may waste the mobile traffic received from the cellular service operator using a SIM card. This traffic can be very expensive, so Android provides the ability to disable notifications for applications when the phone is operating outside a Wi-Fi network.

The Wi-Fi network, according to the logic of Android developers, is free and unlimited, so there are no restrictions on receiving notifications from Android applications on the Wi-Fi network.

Sound problems on Xiaomi smartphones

Due to the small battery capacity of the Chinese company's smartphones, the developers have introduced an interesting energy-saving mode that automatically blocks background running of applications. To change system settings for WhatsApp:

On the device's desktop, swipe from the top of the screen to the center to open the notification shade.
Tap on "gear".
Open the section "Applications - All Apps".
Go to the WhatsApp .
Tap on the item “Activity control” .
We set the mode to “No restrictions” .
We go back and activate the autorun option.
We confirm the seriousness of our intentions.
Close the settings page.

The system will automatically make changes to the settings, and WhatsApp should now work normally.

How to disable notifications for individual applications if there is no Wi-Fi

How do I turn off application notifications when my phone is offline? To do this, again go to “Applications” (Fig. 2), then to “Settings” (Fig. 3). But now we select the “Data Usage” option in the settings (Fig. 9).

Rice. 9. Use of data

Then we go to the tab that shows how the data obtained using the phone’s SIM card is used (yellow number 1 in Fig. 10 is a SIM card named HOPE, if there are two SIM cards).

Rice. 10. Data usage statistics tab when working via a SIM card

In Fig. 10 with numbers:

1 – this is the NADEZhDA SIM card tab and
2 is the Gmail application for which we configure it to prevent receiving notifications when working outside of a Wi-Fi network.

Then we scroll down the “Data Usage” tab to select those applications for which we want to limit receiving notifications when the phone is operating outside the Wi-Fi network.

Let's show this using the example of the Gmail application (2 in Fig. 10). Click (tap with your finger) on this application. The “Data Usage by Applications” statistics window for Gmail and settings for limiting background data use will open (Fig. 11).

Rice. 11. Background data usage settings for the Gmail application

In the settings window that opens, we find the inscription “Limit background data.” And tap on the square next to this inscription so that a green check mark appears in the square, indicating that the use of data from the Internet is limited if the smartphone is not connected to a Wi-Fi data network.

After clicking on the background data limitation box, an additional window will appear where we will be asked whether we really want to limit the receipt of notifications for this application when the smartphone is operating outside the Wi-Fi network (Fig. 12).

Rice. 12. Confirm background data limit for Gmail app

We answer affirmatively “OK”, after which a green check mark will appear in the box next to the inscription “Limit background data” (Fig. 13).

Rice. 13. Background data limit for Gmail app enabled

Your phone will no longer receive notifications from the Gmail app if your phone is not connected to a Wi-Fi network, even if the app is set to allow notifications. If the phone is within Wi-Fi coverage, notifications will be sent.

How to remove background data restrictions for an app

Disabling this mode and canceling the ban on background data for the Gmail application is done by the same click on the square next to the inscription “Restrict background data”, only now we do not put a green checkmark, but remove it (Fig. 13).

Removing a checkmark occurs with one tap (click) without receiving a warning message, as was the case when checking a green checkmark. We tap, and the check mark disappears - this now means that notifications for the Gmail application will be received both when the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network, and when working only with a SIM card.

Similarly, you can set restrictions on the use of background data for any other Android applications. Just like what was shown for the Gmail app.

Power saving mode as a reason for not receiving notifications

If you have battery saving mode enabled on your Android smartphone, this may also cause notifications to stop coming. Typically, you can turn off power saving mode in one of the following ways:

A button in the notification area, as in the image in the previous section.
In settings. On pure Android, in the “Battery” section - “Power Saving Mode”. There, it may also make sense to disable the “Adaptive Battery” mode, if available.
On Samsung Galaxy - in Settings - Device Maintenance - Battery - Power Mode. Try setting it to High Performance mode.

On devices with their own interfaces, for example, Xiaomi or Huawei, the location of the battery saver setting may differ, but it is usually easy to find (you can also use the search in settings).

How to disable notifications for all apps when there is no Wi-Fi

It may be that it is inconvenient for the Android user, the owner of the phone, to set a ban on the use of background data for each application individually, and thereby set a ban on receiving notifications if the phone is outside the Wi-Fi network. Android allows you to do this for all applications at once. That is, you can set, with almost one click, a ban on receiving all notifications from all Android applications for such a situation when the smartphone is out of range of Wi-Fi.

To turn off all notifications:

go to Applications (Fig. 2) and
Settings (Fig. 3).
And then again tap on “Data Usage” (Fig. 9) and
open the settings tab when working with a SIM card - in Fig. 14 is a SIM card with the name NADEZhDA.

Rice. 14. Preparing to limit background data for all Android applications at once

On this tab, click (tap) on the ellipsis symbol in the upper right corner (number 1 in Fig. 14). A drop-down menu will appear in which we select the “Limit background data” option (1 in Fig. 15).

Rice. 15. Enable background data restriction for all Android applications at once

After this, you will be asked to confirm our intention to disable background data for all applications. We answer “OK” in response to the clarifying request (Fig. 16).

Rice. 16. Confirmation of enabling background data restriction for all Android applications at once

The message “Loading” will appear on the screen for a short time (Fig. 17).

Rice. 17. The “Download” window that appears briefly when you enable or disable background data restriction on Android

The loading message notifies you that Android is disabling data usage for all applications. After which, the message “Background data limited” will briefly appear in the top line - this confirms that the operation of disabling data use has been completed.

From now on, notifications for all smartphone applications will only arrive when the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. If there is no Wi-Fi, then the phone only works from a SIM card. In this situation, notifications will not be received on Android, even if the applications are set to allow receiving notifications.

That's how it works. Background data restriction settings are more significant, more primary than notification settings for each individual Android application.

How to remove obstacles to receiving notifications

To always receive notifications on Android, you can remove data usage restrictions for all Android applications. For this

go to “Applications” (Fig. 2),
“Settings” (Fig. 3),
“Use of data” (Fig. 9),
go to the settings tab for working from a SIM card (Fig. 14) and
Tap on the dots in the upper right corner of the window.

In the menu that opens, now select the “Use background data” option (Fig. 18).

Rice. 18. Disable background data restrictions for all Android applications at once

For a short time, the message “Downloading” will appear on the screen (Fig. 17), after which the background data restriction will be disabled for all Android applications. Now all Android applications that are configured to allow notifications will receive notifications, even if the phone is not connected to a Wi-Fi data network.

This mode is less economical, as it involves the consumption of mobile Internet traffic, which can be quite expensive. But the owner of a phone configured in this way will always be in touch.

How to enable an app in the background

Go to “Settings” - “Applications” and find the desired program in the list of installed software;
Open the tab of the desired application and go to the “Energy consumption information” section;

How to prevent applications from being unloaded from memory

In the window that opens, find the “Launch applications” item and open it;

Swiping down the window of an open application will fix it in RAM forever

Turn off Auto Startup Control and enable the Auto Start, Indirect Start, and Run in Background options.
Launch the desired application and go to the multitasking menu, find it in the list and swipe down on it - this will pin it in memory.