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How to Disable App Notifications on the Galaxy S8

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This guide will explain how to disable app notifications on the Galaxy S8. If you don’t want to get bothered by dozens of notifications every day you’ll be happy to know they can all be turned off. Whether that’s regular apps notifying you or the Samsung Galaxy App store.

Users get notifications from apps and weather, the Google Play store for updates, and from the Galaxy App store which manages some of Samsung’s core services and features.

Read: 15 Common Galaxy S8 Problems & How to Fix Them

Sometimes these notifications are useful, but most of the time they’re unnecessary or promotional ads from the Galaxy App Store. Follow our steps below to clean up your Galaxy S8 and get rid of all those app notifications.

The InvisbleShield Glass Curve Galaxy S8 screen protector offers good coverage, but there is a two-tone look to the edges.

How to Disable App Notifications on the Galaxy S8

Samsung allows Galaxy S8 users to control app notifications completely. With options to toggle them on and off on an app-by-app basis. Meaning you can go down a list and disable app notifications on any app you’d like.

  • Head to Settings from the app on your home screen, app tray, or by pulling down the notification bar and tapping the gear-shaped settings button
  • Select Notifications
  • Toggle the All Apps button at the top of the list
  • Scroll through and turn off app notifications on any app you’d like

Additionally, you can tap on the name of the app instead of switching the on/off switch for more options. Some of these include showing notifications silently, to keep noise to a minimum while at work. You can choose to show or hide notifications for that specific app on the lock screen, and even a priority option. This last one will make sure notification sounds work no matter what, even if you’re using Do Not Disturb mode.

How to Turn off Galaxy Apps Notifications

Another step is turning off app notifications for the Galaxy App Store. Features like the Always-on display, camera modes, and other Galaxy features receive updates here. However, the constant notifications and ads aren’t needed. Make sure you turn notifications off here too.

  • Find and open Galaxy Apps in the app tray
  • Tap the (3-lines) menu button near the top right of the screen
  • Select Settings from the pop-up menu
  • Uncheck “Show updates on notification panel”
  • Next, turn off Push notifications for ads and promotional materials

We recommend keeping auto-update apps enabled, especially if you turn off the update notifications. Otherwise, you won’t know about software updates and new features or improvements available for some of the core features of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+.

After following the two sets of instructions above you’ll no longer constantly get notifications from each app, and the Galaxy App store won’t bother you anymore. This will give you a better experience on your Galaxy S8, keep your phone clean, and give you more control over your device.

While you’re here, learn more about the Galaxy S8 camera in this guide, or check out some of the best Galaxy S8+ cases in our slideshow below.

20 Best Galaxy S8+ Cases

Samsung Alcantara Case ($20)

Samsung Alcantara Case ($20)

A neat case from Samsung for the Galaxy S8 is the Alcantara case. It's a beautiful and durable hard case that's covered in Suede-like material. It looks good, feels incredibly soft and is "stain-resistant" too. This is our first recommendation of many. Your phone will be safe, and look good doing it. Since it's a fabric the first few days it may shed, but that quickly went away on ours. 

Samsung makes some of the best cases, of course, and this will be no exception. It comes in four different colors and looks pretty unique. Get one for your Galaxy S8+. For whatever reason, most of Samsung's best cases aren't available on their own online shop. If you want one, check out MobileFun.com for all your needs. 

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  1. michelle Murphy

    06/14/2017 at 10:59 am

    How do I uninstall nougat. I seem to have lost the ability to edit and crop my pictures

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