Ultimate Guide to hide your notifications on your phone

The ability to quickly and easily see any new messages that have arrived on our phones is a huge time saver, and the notifications feature is no exception. But, for various reasons related to privacy, there are numerous instances in which we would prefer to hide notifications on our phone
It would be terrifying if, while sharing videos of your cats with a friend, you received a notification from someone you would prefer to remain anonymous. However, we can’t ignore the practicality of notifications or the joy they bring when we receive a message from a loved one.

NewsTalk is one example of a purpose-built app that excels at this, as is another hidden chat app. As soon as you receive a new message, you will be notified of some random (but up-to-date) news. As a result, you will both receive a notification of a new message simultaneously, and no one will be able to tell you who sent it. Very ingenious!!

How to hide notifications on android phone?

Unlike iphone there are several manufacturers and they will implement different ways in which you can hide notifications.

The easiest way to prevent notification is when you install the app you can deny notification permission to the app. When you see the below dialog, click on “Don’t Allow“.

To turn off notifications completely, you can follow the below steps.

1. Open your device’s Settings app.
2. Tap NotificationsNotifications on lock screen.
   • Choose your notification defaults:
     • Show conversation, default, and silent
     • Hide silent conversations and notifications
     • Don’t show any notifications
   • To update more notification preferences, under “General,” turn notifications on or off:
     • Hide silent notifications in status bar
     • Allow notification snoozing
     • Notification dot on app icon
     • Enhanced notifications

But in most cases, we want to turn off notifications to only certain apps, for that you need to go to the apps section in your phone settings . For example you want to turn off notification to instagram app, then

1. Open your device’s Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications  App settings.
3. Click on the search and type instagram
4. Tap the app. Within the app you will find the settings called. “Notiications”
5. Turn the app’s notifications on or off.

Another option is to turn off directly from the notification tab. For example, when you get a notification from instagram you can :

1. Touch and hold the notification from instagram, and then tap Settings .
2. Choose your settings:
   • To turn off all notifications, turn off All notifications.
   • Turn on or off notifications you want to receive.
   • To allow notification dots, turn on Allow notification dot.

Turn off notifications for android on lock screen

If you have the option of completely turn off showing notifications in your lock screen or just mask the content of the message.

Here in the first part of the message, you can only see the name of the sender(the content of the notification is hidden on the lock screen). In the other, you can clearly see the whole message.
But your requirement could be to not show the notification at all !!!.

If you not want to show any notification in your lock screen

1. Open your phone’s Settings app.
2. Tap Apps & notifications  Notifications.
3. Under “Lock screen,” tap Notifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
4. Choose Don’t show notifications.

If you only want to hide the content of the lock screen but show the sender name

1. Open your phone’s Settings app.
2. Tap App & notifications  Notifications. 
3. Under “Lock screen,” turn off Sensitive notifications.

How to hide notifications on Samsung devices?

Samsung devices use OneUI, a wrapper ui on top of android . So there might be differences in how to turn off notifications.

• Open Settings > Notifications(you can search for notification in the search bar of settings)
• Select App Notifications.
• Search for the app you want to disable notifications, and toggle the switch on the right side of the app.

How to hide notifications on lock screen for Samsung devices?

If you want to disable notifications only on the lock screen, then you need do the following steps:

• Open Settings > Notifications(you can search for notification in the search bar of settings)
• Select Lock Screen Notifications.
• Select the Hide Content field

You will no longer get notification for any app on your lock screen.

How to hide notification for a specific app on Samsung Devices ?

To disable notifications for a specific app, then follow the below steps.

• Open Settings > Notifications(you can search for notification in the search bar of settings)
• Select Lock Screen Notifications.
• Tap the settings symbol in Show content field.
  You will find the list of apps, select the app you want to hide notifications by toggling the switch.

Easiest way to hide notifications for a specific app on android

The easiest way to disable the notifications for a particular app is by long pressing on the app from the app drawer and clicking on the i on the app. For example if you want to hide notifications for Instagram.

• Search for instagram on your app drawer.
• Long press on instagram.
• Select the “i” button . You will now be taken to the setting screen of that app.
• Select Notifications field from the app settings.
• Next, select hide notifications option and you will no longer get notifications from that app.

How to hide notification on Xiaomi devices ?

To hide notification content on a Xiaomi phone, you can use the “Hide notification” feature in the “App Lock”: 

1. Open your phone’s Settings app 
2. Tap Apps & notifications 
3. Tap Notifications 
4. Under “Lock screen,” tap Notifications on lock screen or On lock screen 
5. Choose Don’t show notifications

How to hide notifications on oneplus devices ?

To hide notification content on a OnePlus phone, you can try these steps: 

1. Open the Settings app 
2. Navigate to Security & Lock Screen 
3. Select the Setting gear icon 
4. Select Notifications on lock screen 
5. Choose an option like Show private content only when unlocked, Don’t show notifications at all, or Hide sensitive notification content 

You can also try searching for Utilities in Settings, then selecting App lock and turning on Hide notification content.

How to hide notifications on vivo devices ?

To hide notifications or messages on the lock screen of a Vivo phone, you can do the following: 

1. Go to Settings 
2. Select Status bar and notifications 
3. Select the app you want to hide notifications
4. Turn off Show on lock screen 

How to hide notifications on iPhone ?

To hide notifications on iphone (Or iPad), Then do the following steps :

1. Open the iPhone Settings > Notifications.
2. Select the app for which you want to hide notifications.
3. In the Alerts section, tap to clear the circle under Lock Screen to disable notifications from showing up on the lock screen. You can select Allow Notifications to disable all notifications for that app, but that also removes Banners and Notification Center pop-ups, which you might still want.