When you use an Android phone, your screen may sometimes turn on when you receive a notification. Not every app does that, but apps like Pokémon Go sometimes do. Very annoying, for various reasons, but you can do something about it.
Normally, when you receive a notification on your android your phone vibrates and makes a sound. If you also enable the do not disturb mode, that does not even happen. Some apps can still turn on your screen, in order to still attract your attention. We do not mean that a notification arrives in the sleeping screen (as in: only some text on a black background): can affect the entire screen.
Unfortunately, Android does not have a ready-made solution for this that prevents all notifications and apps from exhibiting such behavior. If your screen is on (constantly), that costs extra energy from your battery. Plus, let’s face it, sometimes it can just be annoying.
Restrict Android notifications
Fortunately, you can do something about this. Two things even. The first solution has to do with the app in question. Some apps let you adjust within the settings whether the screen can turn on or not. The example for this article is Pokémon Go. When that app sends a notification, the screen turns on immediately. Unfortunately, we don’t find the option within the settings to disable that feature, but it may be the case with other apps. For example, look at the popular Snapchat. There is a Wake Screen option. Remove the check mark there and the app will no longer turn on your screen with an incoming notification.
Another route has to do with the app’s settings, at the Android level. You can mute all notifications. Unfortunately, you will not find the ‘Wake Screen’ part within the general settings (where you also control the rights, for example). Therefore, look for the app that you want to adjust (for us that is Pokémon Go for convenience). Press and hold the app icon and select App info. Go to Notifications and slide the “All notifications from Pokémon Go” (or other app) slider to the right. This will block all notifications.
If you want more control, you can indicate per type of notification what you want to happen. Open some kind of notification and tap Other (that’s the button with a line through the bell). Now those notifications come in ‘silently’. That means the screen won’t turn on, there’s no sound, and there’s no vibration. You can still see the notifications when you pull down the quick menu. With these detours you prevent your Android screen from turning on the moment a notification arrives, until Google presents a general setting for it.
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