I see a lot of phones with dozens of unread notifications. With every app sending you
notifications, it is easy to miss the important ones, so what can you do about it? Easy, it just
takes a few minutes to clear most of them permanently.
Have a look at your notifications (pull down from the top of the screen).
On an Android phone (Samsung, Nokia etc):
You can usually swipe a notification left or right to remove it, but it will not stop the app from
sending you more. To stop them permanently, go into your settings and find apps and notifications, then notifications. It will show all the apps that can send you notifications – turn off those you are not
interested in, but leave things like Phone, Messages etc. Sometimes you can even select the type of notification you would like by tapping the entry for
the app and only turn off the unwanted ones, it depends on the app.
On an iPhone:
Swipe left on one of the notifications you’d like to get rid of.
Tap “Manage” to get rid of future notifications from the app that sent the annoying message.
“View” shows you more about the message and “Clear” remove this notification but will not stop
them from coming back.
If you do this for any notification you don’t want you will only receive the important ones and
your screen will look a lot tidier and your phone will actually only tell you what you want to know.
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