Depending on what notifications you want, you can change settings for certain apps or for your whole phone. Notifications appear when you swipe down from the top of your screen. Some notifications can also appear on your lock screen and home screen.
Important: Some of these steps only work on Android 11 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
Limit notifications on your Pixel phone
Use notifications on your phone
Important: Do Not Disturb can block notifications. Learn how to use Do Not Disturb.
- To dismiss one notification, swipe it left or right.
- To clear all notifications, scroll to the bottom of your notifications and tap Clear all.
- To clear all silent notifications, next to 'Silent notifications', tap Close
Tip:
- You can clear some notifications only when they've finished. For example, you can clear a music player notification after you stop the music.
- If you can't dismiss a notification on your lock screen or through the 'Clear all' option, dismiss it individually.
Turn on snoozing
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications.
- Turn on Allow notification snoozing.
Snooze a notification
To snooze a notification, tap the down arrow 
- To expand a notification, tap the down arrow
. Then, to act directly from a notification, tap an action, like Reply or Archive.
- Some apps show a dot when you get a notification. Touch and hold the app with the dot to find the oldest notification. Then, clear each to show the next. Learn about notification dots.
If you clear or snooze your notification, you can go to your notification history to find them again.
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
Notification history.
- Turn Use notification history on or off.
Notification history.You can turn alert types on or off, find past alerts and control sound and vibration.
- On your phone, open the Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
- Choose how often you want to receive alerts and which settings you want to turn on.
Choose how you're notified on your phone
Change notifications for your device- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
- 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
- Choose your notification defaults:
Tip: On some phones, you can have your screen on display when you get a notification. Learn how to turn on Ambient display.
Option 1: In your settings app
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
- Under 'Most recent', find apps that recently sent you notifications.
- To find more apps, in the drop-down menu, tap All apps.
- Tap the app.
- Turn the app's notifications on or off.
- You can turn off all notifications for a listed app or choose from specific categories.
Option 2: On a notification
- To find your notifications, from the top of your screen, swipe down.
- Touch and hold the notification and then tap Settings
.
- Choose your settings:
- To turn off all notifications, turn off All notifications.
- Turn on or off notifications that you want to receive.
- To allow notification dots, turn on Allow notification dot.
.Option 3: In the certain app
You can control many app notifications from a settings menu in the app. For example, an app could have a setting to choose the sound that the app's notifications make. To make these changes, open the app and search for the settings menu.
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications.
- Turn Notification dot on app icon on or off.
You can choose what kind of notifications an app sends you:
- Alerting: You'll hear a sound, get a message on your lock screen and find an app's icon in the status bar.
- Silent: You won't hear a sound or feel a vibration. But the notification will appear when you swipe down from the top of your screen.
Option 1: In your Settings app
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
App settings.
- Under 'Most recent', find apps that recently sent you notifications.
- To find more apps, in the drop-down menu, tap All apps.
- Tap the app.
- Tap a type of notification.
- Choose your options. Different apps have certain types of notifications that you can turn on or off.
App settings.Option 2: On a notification
- From the top, swipe down.
- Touch and hold the notification.
- Turn on Default or Silent.
- Tap Apply.
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
- Turn on Allow apps to show bubbles.
Turn bubbles on or off for a specific app or conversation
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Apps.
- Tap See all apps. Then, tap the app that you want to change.
- Tap Notifications
- Choose your notification settings:
- All conversations can bubble.
- Selected conversations can bubble: Tap a person. Then turn on Bubble.
- Nothing can bubble.
To turn on this feature:
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
- Turn on Dismiss on this device.
Tip: 'Dismiss notifications across Pixel devices' syncs when each device is connected to Wi-Fi.
Control how notifications show on your phone's lock screen
Important: If you pick this option as your default, the setting applies to all apps. To block notifications from certain apps only, learn how to change notifications by app.
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
- Select an option:
- Show conversations, default and silent: Display all notifications on the lock screen.
- Hide silent conversations and notifications: Display alerts on the lock screen.
- Don't show any notifications: Block all notifications from the lock screen. You will only get notifications when you unlock your device.
Show sensitive content on your phone's lock screen
- Open your device's Settings app.
- Tap Notifications.
- Under 'Privacy', turn Sensitive notifications on or off.
Tip: If you turn off this option, you can still restrict certain apps to 'Don't show notifications' on your lock screen. Learn how to change notifications by app.