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Samsung: Choose Which Apps Show Brief Pop-up Notifications

When brief pop-up notifications fire for every app, alerts you do not care about keep interrupting the screen while you work on your phone. Samsung lets you pick individual apps for this pop-up feature, but the setting sits deep inside the notification menu and is easy to miss. Skip it, and apps you actually want pop-ups from might stay switched off while noisy ones keep interrupting you.

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Select Apps for Brief Pop-up Notifications auf Samsung

Brief pop-up notifications on Samsung phones show a short banner at the top of the screen for a few seconds. Behind this feature sits a single list of apps allowed to trigger it, kept separate from your general notification permissions.

If an app never shows a pop-up, it usually means it was never added to that list, not that its notifications are blocked entirely. The reverse happens too: apps you never need urgent alerts from can flood your screen with pop-ups if they were left switched on by default.

To adjust the list, open SettingsNotificationsIncluded apps. Turn individual apps on or off depending on whether their alerts should interrupt the screen as a pop-up.

This setting only changes the pop-up behavior. Regular notifications in the notification panel and on the lock screen stay unaffected, so switching an app off here does not silence it completely.

If pop-ups still appear for apps you turned off, check whether the brief pop-up feature itself is enabled under Notifications. Also review individual app notification settings, since some apps override the general pop-up list with their own alert style.

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Only apps that have already sent at least one notification show up under SettingsNotificationsIncluded apps. Open the app once and let it trigger a notification, then check the list again.

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