Turn On/Off Lock Screen Sound
Every time you lock or unlock your realme phone, a short click or chime plays to confirm the action. If that sound feels unnecessary or gets triggered constantly during meetings or at night, it comes from a setting buried inside the sound menu rather than the ringtone or notification settings you might check first. You can switch it off or back on without affecting your ringtone or other alert sounds.
Change Ringtone Volume
Missing calls on your Realme phone often comes down to a ringtone volume that got turned down without anyone touching it. This level works independently from notification and media volume, so turning those up does nothing for a quiet or silent ringer. A short check in Sound settings usually brings calls back to a normal, audible level.
Turn On/Off Touch Sounds
Every tap on a menu, toggle or app icon on your Realme phone triggers a short click sound, and in a quiet room or during a call that gets distracting fast. This feedback tone runs independently from your ringtone and notification sounds, so muting the phone with the volume buttons does not always silence it. The setting sits in a separate sound menu that many people overlook.
Banner Notifications for Individual Apps
When every app pops a banner across the top of your screen, the display fills up fast and calls get buried among chat alerts. Realme UI lets you control banner notifications per app, so only the apps that actually matter interrupt you.
Turn Notification History On or Off
If you swipe away a notification before you can read it, there is no way to bring it back once it disappears from the shade. Realme UI can keep a running log of every alert your apps send, but on most phones this log stays switched off by default. Without it enabled, deleted or missed notifications are gone for good.
Allow or Deny Calls in Do Not Disturb
If Do Not Disturb mode blocks every incoming call, even from close contacts, the call exception setting is probably still set to No one. Realme UI lets you fine-tune this behavior instead of muting your phone completely during focus time.
Show or Hide Lock Screen Notification Content
When someone can read your messages just by glancing at your locked phone, the lock screen notification setting is exposing too much content. Realme phones let you choose whether the sender and message text appear before you unlock, or whether only a generic alert shows up. Picking the wrong option means either missing important alerts at a glance or leaking private texts to anyone nearby.
Screenshot Sound On or Off
Every screenshot on your Realme phone triggers a camera-shutter sound, even in a quiet room or meeting. If that confirmation tone keeps catching you off guard, or you simply want it back after muting it, the switch sits in the sound and haptic settings rather than in the general notification menu.
Sound & Notification Controls
Realme UI splits ringtone, media, alarm and notification sounds into separate controls, so a call can stay loud while music stays quiet. This hub explains how those volume sliders, notification channels and Focus modes work together, and where each setting actually changes phone behavior.
Ring and Notification Sounds
Ring and notification sounds tell you who is calling and which app needs your attention. On Realme phones you can assign different tones per contact or per app, adjust how loud each sound category plays, and control how sounds behave when Focus modes are active. Getting this right means fewer missed calls and fewer annoying alerts at the wrong moment.
Do Not Disturb and Notification Focus
Do Not Disturb mutes calls, alerts and vibrations while you work, sleep or drive, without cutting you off completely from the people who matter. On Realme phones you decide which contacts, apps or alarm types still get through while everything else stays quiet. Scheduled sessions can switch the mode on and off automatically, so you never have to remember to flip it yourself.
Set Custom Notification Sounds per App
When every app plays the same default tone, you can't tell a WhatsApp message apart from a calendar reminder without checking the screen. Realme UI lets you assign a separate ringtone to each app's notification category, but that option is buried inside the per-app notification settings, not the general sound menu. Most users only ever adjust the single global notification sound and never discover this app-level control.
Camera Shutter Sound Toggle
Every time you snap a photo on your Realme phone, a shutter click plays automatically, even in a quiet meeting or library. This audible feedback comes from a setting inside the Camera app itself, not from your ringer or notification volume. Muting the phone with the volume buttons often does nothing, because the toggle sits somewhere else entirely.
Schedule Do Not Disturb
If Do Not Disturb keeps buzzing through notifications at night or you forget to switch it off after a meeting, manual toggling is the problem. Realme lets you automate this with a saved schedule instead of remembering to flip the switch every time. Without a schedule, the mode only runs when you trigger it yourself.
Turn On/Off Sound Amplifier
If music, videos or calls suddenly sound louder or notifications get mixed with background noise on your Realme phone, the Sound Amplifier feature is likely active. It boosts all audio sent to connected headphones, including ambient sound picked up by the microphone, which can feel overwhelming in quiet rooms. Some users also notice it drains the battery faster when left running in the background.
Change Notification Sound
When every incoming SMS or WhatsApp message triggers the same generic tone, it gets hard to tell alerts apart without looking at the screen. Realme UI ships with one default notification sound applied system-wide, so apps that do not offer their own sound settings stay locked to it. Switching to a different pre-installed tone only takes a few taps once you know where the option lives.
Auto Sort Notifications
When notifications from different apps pile up in random order, the notification shade turns into a scroll marathon. Realme UI can group and sort notifications automatically per app, but this behavior stays off until you switch it on yourself. Without it, alerts just stack in the order they arrive, no matter which app sent them.
Turn Off Notifications for Individual Apps
If every app buzzes your phone the same way, important messages get buried under game alerts or promo banners. On Realme phones you can silence or allow notifications per app instead of switching alerts off system-wide. This also covers deeper notification types like sound, badges, or lock screen previews for a single app.
Turn On/Off App Notification Badges
If an app icon on your Realme home screen keeps showing a small dot even after you have read every message, or an app you care about never shows one at all, the badge setting for that specific app controls this. Some apps let you pick between a dot or a number, others only support a simple on or off switch.
Turn Screen Wake-Up for Notifications On or Off
If your Realme phone stays dark when a message or call comes in, you have to unlock it manually just to see what happened. The screen wake-up for notifications, part of the Notification & status bar settings, decides whether the display lights up automatically for incoming alerts. Some people run into the opposite problem: the screen keeps waking up at night and draining battery.
Change Media Volume Separately
If videos, games, or WhatsApp voice messages stay quiet while your ringtone plays loud and clear, the media volume on your Realme phone runs on its own slider. This level governs apps, streaming services, games, and voice messages, separate from ringtone and notification sounds. Turning up the wrong slider is a common reason media audio still seems muted or too loud.
Turn On/Off Do Not Disturb
If your Realme phone stays silent even for calls you need, or notifications only show up once you unlock the screen, Do Not Disturb is usually behind it. In this mode calls and messages still arrive, but sound and visible alerts get suppressed unless you have set an exception. Getting the toggle or exceptions wrong leads to missed calls or unwanted interruptions.
Change Alarm Sound
If the default alarm tone on your Realme phone barely wakes you up, swapping in a louder or more personal sound is often the fix. Realme UI keeps alarm sounds separate from your general ringtone and notification tone, so changing those settings elsewhere does nothing for your alarms. Each alarm can use its own built-in tone or a custom song stored on your phone.
Set a Custom Ringtone from Your Own Audio Files
If the default ringtones on your Realme phone all sound the same, you can swap them for a song or audio file you already have on your device. On Dual SIM phones, you can also assign a separate tone to each SIM card, which helps you tell work calls apart from private ones just by the sound. This does not require any extra app.