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Oppo: Show or Hide Notification Icons in Status Bar

On Oppo phones, every app pushes its own icon into the status bar, which quickly turns the top of your screen into a cluttered icon row. If you only want to see how many unread notifications you have, or nothing at all, the icon display is controlled through a separate notification setting. This setting changes how icons appear, not whether you actually receive notifications.

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Android 11 · Coloros 11
Show or Hide Notification Icons in Status Bar – Coloros 11: step 1 – Tap on Settings
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Show or Hide Notification Icons in Status Bar auf Oppo

On Coloros, the status bar icon row is fed directly by each app's notification channel. When several apps send alerts at once, the row fills up fast and can crowd out the clock, signal, or battery icon depending on your screen width.

The icon display and the notification itself are separate systems. Turning icons off does not silence apps, mute sounds, or remove entries from the notification shade - it only changes what appears at the top of the screen.

To adjust this, open SettingsNotifications & status barNotification icons. From there choose Icon to keep the current behavior, Notification count to show a single number instead of separate icons, or Do not show to hide the row completely.

Pick Notification count if you want a quick glance at how much is waiting without identifying every app. Choose Do not show only if you check the notification shade regularly, since you lose all visual cues otherwise.

If individual apps still feel too noisy after this change, adjust their alerts separately in that app's own notification settings instead of changing the global icon behavior here.

Frequently asked questions

No. Sound, vibration, and lock screen previews are controlled separately for each app under SettingsNotifications & status bar.