‘Tips’ to control your cell phone notifications

There are times when a person turns on their cell phone and the first thing they find is a screen full of notificationsand again.

This is common when you have several applications installed that have the option of notifying the user of any type of news, but there are cases in which you can even lose track of how many applications can send notifications constantly.

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If you are one of those who have a serious problem with dozens of notifications that can reach you in a matter of minutes, You can follow these tips compiled by the Spanish newspaper ‘El País’ so that you can “regain control” of your cell phone and not have to look at it frequently throughout the day.

If you have a cell phone that runs the Android operating system, what you have to do is enter the cell phone settings, enter the ‘Notifications’ option and in ‘Application settings’, you can control the sending of notifications from the applications you have installed.

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On the other hand, if you have an Apple brand cell phone, the step by step is very similar: enter the phone’s settings, go to the ‘Notifications’ option, in which all the programs you have installed will appear. It is enough to click on an application and deactivate the ‘allow notifications’ tab.

For Android phones, to be able to snooze notifications, what you have to do is go to the ‘Notifications’ section in the settings menu and click on ‘allow snoozing’. The next thing, after reaching the cell phone notice, is to drag it slightly to the left or to the right and tap on the clock symbol with the letter z. There, you can choose to snooze the notification for 15 minutes and a half hour, as well as one or two hours.

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For cell phones with iOS, there is a section in the settings menu called ‘concentration modes’. There are several default modes, such as ‘Do not disturb’, ‘Break’, ‘Reading’, ‘Work’ and ‘Free time’‘. By pressing on any of these modes, you can choose which applications or contacts you want to receive notifications from when it is activated. In the same way, you can choose if you want to receive calls or not from any contact.

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