How to Turn off All Notifications

If you want all notifications off, no matter where they come from, you can do this with just a few clicks.

How to Turn off Notifications From Specific Apps

If you don’t want to turn off all notifications, but don’t want to see any from certain apps, you can also do this from the Settings. Then, you can still get important notifications while avoiding ones irrelevant to you.

More Options for Turning off Notifications

In the Notifications & Actions settings, there are some more options you can choose to have off or on. These are just below the Notifications section and have checkboxes. You can choose whether or not to show notifications on your lock screen, show reminders or incoming VoIP calls on the lock screen, allow notifications to play sound, and other options. To turn these off, just click on the checkmark box. Click again to turn them back on. You will also see a link to Focus assist settings. Here, you can choose what times you want to get notifications. Follow these steps to use Focus assist settings.

Notifications From Apps Still Showing Up?

If you find some apps are still giving you notifications, you may have to go into that particular app itself and change notification settings from within. You can usually find these options in the settings section of the app.