Managing notifications on the moto g 5g (2022)

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Find your notifications
Apps send notifications to alert you about things like new messages, calendar events, and alarms.

You can check your notifications from a few places:

If you receive multiple notifications from an app, they're bundled together. Swipe down to view more details. Conversation notifications are bundled together at the top of your other notifications so you can easily return to them any time.
Some important notifications pop up briefly over your current app so that you can take action. For example, a notification for an incoming call might appear while you're watching a video, so that you can answer or dismiss the call.
If an app icon has a notification dot, you can touch & hold it to see the most recent notification:

When you receive unwanted notifications from an app, touch & hold the notification, then touch Turn off notifications .

To review all apps and adjust whether they can send notifications:

  1. Swipe down to view your notifications.
  2. At the bottom of the list, touch Manage
  3. Touch App settings .
  4. Do one of the following:

Tip : To prevent notifications from all apps during certain times or calendar events, use Do Not Disturb

Silence an app's notifications

To temporarily silence notifications from all apps, use Do Not Disturb.

Change to Silent

Option 1: On a notification

  1. Touch & hold a notification.
  2. Touch Silent

Option 2: In Settings

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications > App settings , and select the app.
  2. Touch the type of notification to change.
  3. Touch Silent .

Hide status bar icons for silent notifications

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications .
  2. Turn Hide silent notifications in status bar on .
  3. Restart the phone to apply the new settings.
    You won't see the icon in the status bar for any silent notifications. When you swipe the status bar down, the icon appears in the pull-down along with the notification.

Tip : In phone Settings, you can only hide status bar icons for all apps. If you want to hide status bar icons for a single app, open the app and look in its settings. Only some apps let you do this.
Hide silent notifications

  1. Go to Settings > Sound & vibration > Do Not Disturb .
    Or, in quick settings, touch & hold .
  2. Touch Display options for hidden notifications .
  3. Select what to allow or block:

Change notification sound

To change the sound for all app notifications:

  1. Go to Settings > Sound & vibration > Default notification sound
  2. Do one of the following:

To change the notification sound for a specific app:

  1. Touch & hold the app icon
  2. Touch > Notifications
  3. Touch the category for enabled notifications, then touch Sound and select a unique ringtone, or set it to none.

If an app's notifications are silent but you want to hear them:

  1. Touch & hold a notification.
  2. Touch Default .

To let an app's notifications be heard when Do Not Disturb is on:

  1. Touch & hold the app icon.
  2. Touch > Notifications .
  3. Touch the category for enabled notifications and turn Override Do Not Disturb on .

Turn on snoozing

If you want to be able to snooze notifications by dragging them left or right, turn on snoozing:

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications
  2. Turn Allow notification snoozing on

Control notification dots and bubbles

App icons show dots to alert you about unread notifications. You can turn off dots for one or all apps.

Turn dots off for all apps

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications
  2. Turn Notification dot on app icon on or off .

Turn dots off for one app

  1. Touch & hold the app icon.
  2. Touch > Notifications .
  3. Turn Allow notification dot on or off .

Turn bubbles on or off for all apps

Some conversations appear as bubbles floating on top of other apps for easy control and access. You can turn bubbles off and see conversations only in their app.

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications .
  2. Touch Bubbles and turn them on or off .

Control lock screen notifications

If you've set a pattern, PIN or password, you can control which type of notifications show on your lock screen and prevent them from revealing private information.

To adjust notifications for all apps:

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications
  2. To hide sensitive content on your lock screen, turn Sensitive notifications off
    You’ll get lock screen notifications for an incoming email or chat, but they won’t include message details.
    For finer control, leave this on to allow details, and instead hide sensitive content from specific apps.
  3. To change which notifications show on your lock screen (show all, hide notifications from apps you silenced, or hide all) , touch Notifications on lock screen .

To hide sensitive content from specific apps:

  1. Set lock screen notifications for all apps to Show conversations, default, and silent .
  2. Touch & hold the app icon, then touch > Notifications .
  3. Types of notifications the app sends appear here. For each enabled notification that you want to hide:
    1. Touch the name.
    2. Touch Notifications on lock screen > Show sensitive content only when unlocked .

Tip : When you turn on Lockdown, notifications won't show on your lock screen.