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Do you need to hide alerts on your iPhone from one particular app? While you can always turn on Do Not Disturb, or simply silence your phone from ringing, sometimes you just want to get that one annoying app to stop sending you notifications. Here's how to silence unwanted notifications from pesky apps.
Why You'll Love This Tip
- Make sure you're only getting the notifications you want for any given app.
- Instead of silencing your entire iPhone, you can pick and choose which alerts and notifications to receive.
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How to Turn Off Notifications for a Particular App
If a certain app keeps sending you notifications when you don't want them. here's how to customize which apps send you which kinds of notifications. If you like tips about using your iPhone, be sure to sign up for our free Tip of the Day!
- On your iPhone, open Settings.
![On your iPhone, open Settings.]()
- Tap Notifications.
![Tap Notifications.]()
- Scroll down and choose the app you want to silence notifications for.
![Scroll down and choose the app you want to silence notifications for.]()
- If you want to disable all notifications from this app under all circumstances, including while in Focus, toggle Allow Notifications off. It will be gray and to the left when disabled.
![If you want to disable all notifications from this app under all circumstances including while in Focus, toggle Allow Notifications to off. It will be gray when disabled.]()
- If you have a scheduled summary set up, you can choose to have the notification delivered to your iPhone instantaneously by tapping Immediate Delivery, or you can delay the notification to be delivered to you in your scheduled summary by tapping Scheduled Summary.
![If you have scheduled summary set up, you can choose to have the notification delivered to your iPhone instantaneously by tapping Immediate Delivery, or you can delay the notification to be delivered to you in your scheduled summary by tapping Scheduled Summary.]()
- Additionally, you can choose how the app alerts you, whether it can be seen from your Lock Screen, the notification center, or in banners that appear at the top of your iPhone while you're using it.
![Additionally, you can choose how the app alerts you, whether it can be seen from your lock screen, the notification center, or in banners that appear at the top of your iPhone while you're using it.]()
- To disable all notification sounds for the app, toggle Sounds to off. It will be gray and to the left when disabled.
![To disable all notification sounds for the app, toggle Sounds to off. It will be gray when disabled.]()
- To disable the small red notification bubble that appears on the top right side of app icons, toggle Badges to off. It will be gray and to the left when disabled.
![To disabled the small red notification bubble that appears on the top right side of apps, toggle Badges to off. It will be gray when disabled.]()
Important Note:
Not all apps have the same options to edit notifications. Depending on the app you want to silence, you may see additional options for customizing the way you receive notifications from that app, or you may see fewer.
And that's how you mute or silence notifications from apps you don't want. It's so nice to be able to customize the way iPhone sends alerts, both to keep my Home Screen looking clean and to eliminate distractions.
