Every app installed on a Realme phone can send notifications, but not every app deserves the same level of attention. Realme UI gives you a dedicated settings area for each app where you decide exactly how it is allowed to alert you. This is different from the master notification switch, which turns everything on or off for one app at once. The per-app controls go deeper: you can allow only silent notifications, hide content on the lock screen, or block specific notification categories an app uses internally.
This matters because modern apps rarely send just one type of notification. A messaging app might separate chat alerts from group updates and promotional pings. A shopping app might split order status from marketing offers. Realme UI exposes these categories individually for apps that support them, so you can keep the useful alerts and cut the noise without uninstalling anything or muting the app entirely.
What you can control per app
Inside each app's notification settings you typically find several independent toggles and options:
- Turn all notifications from that app on or off
- Allow or block sound and vibration for that app specifically
- Show or hide notification content on the lock screen
- Let the app show a badge or dot on its home screen icon
- Set the notification as urgent, so it can bypass certain Focus or Do Not Disturb rules
Not every app exposes all of these options. Simpler apps with a single notification type will show fewer settings than apps with multiple alert categories.
How this connects to Focus and Do Not Disturb
Per-app notification settings work alongside Focus mode and Do Not Disturb, not instead of them. When Focus mode is active, only apps you have explicitly marked as allowed - or notifications flagged as high priority - will get through. This means the per-app settings act as a filter that determines which apps are even eligible to interrupt you during a quiet period. Getting both settings aligned avoids the common frustration of an app staying silent when you expect an urgent alert, or the opposite: a low-priority app breaking through a Focus session it should not.
Common use cases
Muting one specific app is useful when a single app is overly aggressive with promotional or reminder notifications, but you still want everything else to work normally. Reducing an app to silent notifications only keeps you informed without sound or vibration disrupting meetings or sleep. Hiding lock screen content is relevant for messaging or banking apps where you do not want message previews visible to anyone glancing at your phone. Marking an app as high priority ensures alerts from that app, such as security codes or delivery updates, are not swallowed by a busy notification list or blocked during Focus periods.
Things to keep in mind
Notification permissions can be revoked separately from the app-level settings described here; if an app has no notification permission at all, none of these finer controls will have any effect until permission is granted again. After a system or app update, some apps reset their notification categories to default, so it is worth rechecking apps you have customized if their behavior suddenly changes. Battery optimization settings can also affect how reliably background apps deliver notifications, independent of the notification settings themselves.