How many times does your phone ring and you think it's an important message or a warning, but in reality it's just a useless notification? Smartphones have so many apps and receive a huge variety of messages. Notifications that are not useful to the user. With this in mind, Vida Celular gathered the best ways to get rid of notifications on Android.

First, you need to consider which notifications you want to get rid of and which ones you want to keep. Games and video apps may be useless in terms of notifications, but messaging and task apps may be important. It’s also important to note which rarely used apps send you the most notifications that are irrelevant to you.

How to do?

1. Open the settings menu.
2. Click on Applications and Notifications (remember that Android smartphones may differ from each other, changing the name and location of some of these options).
3. This option will allow you to see your open apps, how long you've been using them, and how many notifications each one sends. Click on See All Apps.
4. A list of all the apps installed on your smartphone and the amount of memory they take up will appear. Here you can find out which apps are bothering you.
5. When you select the app, the options to Uninstall and Force Stop will appear. Below there will be a Notifications box, which you will click on.
6. There you can block all notifications when selecting categories. For example: in WhatsApp you can keep notifications from Chats and block Group notifications or even choose the type of alert, whether you want the notification to make a sound or just appear on the screen, etc.

On Chrome on Android

1. One application that sends a lot of useless notifications is the browser, since we often end up clicking Accept Notifications without even realizing it on a website. On Android, the most used browser that comes installed as default is Google Chrome
2. Block notifications from all sites:
3. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app.
4. To the right of the address bar, tap More (three dots in the top right corner) and select Settings.
5. Tap Site Settings and Notifications.
6. At the top, toggle the setting on or off.
7. To allow quieter notifications, tap Use quieter messages (blocks notifications that interrupt you).
8. Chrome also says it will no longer send notifications if you ignore multiple notifications from the same site, or if other users normally don't allow notifications from a specific site.
9. How to block notifications from a specific website:

How to block a specific website:

1. Click on more (three dots in the upper right corner)
2. Select the Settings option
3. Go to Notifications
4. Below is a list of sites that have requested permission to send notifications. You can see which ones are authorized and which ones are blocked.
5. In the tab you can select which notices you want to keep.

Disable pop-ups

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app.
2. To the right of the address bar, tap More (three dots in the top right corner) and then Settings.
3. Tap Permissions and Pop-ups and redirects.
4. Disable Pop-ups and redirects option

Third-party apps

To get rid of notifications on Android, you can still use some third-party apps for this purpose.

O NCleaner is one of them, which puts filters on your notifications. Notification Manager: also does a similar process and can even remove junk from your device. The Filter Box It also helps with selection and has a paid option with more features.

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