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Android: Turn Off Notifications for a Single App

If one app keeps buzzing while everything else stays quiet, the global notification switch isn't causing it - a per-app setting is overriding your general preferences. Android lets you decide which apps are allowed to notify you at all, separate from your overall notification setup. Getting this wrong means either missing something important or getting flooded by an app you barely use.

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Turn On/Off Notifications for Individual Apps auf Android

Android manages notifications on two levels. There is a general switch for all notifications, and a separate control for every app installed on your phone.

When one app keeps sending alerts you do not want, or another app has gone silent while the rest of your notifications work fine, the per-app setting is almost always responsible. It overrides whatever you have configured globally, so switching notifications on or off system-wide will not fix a single misbehaving app.

To change this, open SettingsNotificationsApp notifications. This list shows every installed app together with its current notification status.

Tap the app you want to adjust and turn its notifications on or off. Some apps also expose notification categories underneath this toggle, letting you allow certain alerts (like direct messages) while blocking others (like promotions) from the same app.

Turning off notifications this way is different from disabling an app or clearing its background permissions. The app keeps running normally; it simply stops showing anything in the notification shade or on the lock screen. If you still get alerts after switching an app off here, check whether a second app (for example a messaging client with its own in-app notification setting) is generating them instead.

Frequently asked questions

Apps that have never requested notification permission, or that you have not opened yet, sometimes do not appear under SettingsNotificationsApp notifications. Open the app once and check its own in-app notification settings first.