{"id":20456,"date":"2017-12-13T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=20456"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:43:02","slug":"how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications\/20456\/","title":{"rendered":"How to adjust Facebook notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook notifications cluttering your e-mail or flooding your smartphone or desktop screen can seriously distract you from more important matters. But there\u2019s a solution. Find out how to adjust the notifications you receive, and when you get them, in your account settings.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Desktop version notifications<\/h2>\n<p>To get to the notifications section in the standard desktop version, click <em>Settings<\/em> and select <em>Notifications<\/em> in the left menu. If you haven\u2019t adjusted notifications before, the line after <em>On Facebook<\/em> will read <em>All notifications, all sounds on<\/em>. To change them, click <em>Edit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070145\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070145\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"976\" height=\"444\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20462\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will see a long list of notification groups, separated thematically by content type (Birthdays, Tags, Group activity, etc.). For a start, you can choose whether to receive notifications and messages with a sound alert (it\u2019s not always appropriate, after all).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070147\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070147\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"969\" height=\"674\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20465\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further down is the line<em> Activity that involves you <\/em>\u2014 the only item whose settings can\u2019t be changed: You\u2019ll always get notifications when someone tags you or comments on a post of yours. But that\u2019s probably a good thing; that\u2019s the basic information we want to follow and which gets lost among the countless notifications from other sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070146\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070146\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"65\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20467\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For <em>Birthdays<\/em> and <em>Close Friends activity<\/em> (people in your Close Friends list), the settings are very simple \u2014 you can turn them on or off. The <em>New Local Pages<\/em> settings are configured likewise.<\/p>\n<p>Adjusting notifications about live videos is more flexible. By default (On), you\u2019ll receive not only notifications about live streaming from friends or communities you\u2019re subscribed to, but also Facebook recommendations based on its \u201cmagic\u201d algorithms (so it might not actually be of interest). If you want to receive fewer notifications, but not miss friends\u2019 live videos, select <em>Suggestions off<\/em>. Now you\u2019ll just get notifications about live videos from friends and groups. If you\u2019re not interested in any live videos, select <em>All off<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070143\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070143\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20460\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can adjust separately which notifications you want to receive about tagged posts and photos: from everyone, from friends and friends of friends, or just from friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070143\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070143\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20459\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under <em>Pages you manage<\/em>, <em>Group activity<\/em>, and <em>App requests and activity<\/em>, you can enable or disable notifications from a specific group, page, or app.<\/p>\n<p>Under <em>On This Day<\/em>, you can select events that happened during the day that you want to be reminded about: <em>All memories<\/em>, <em>Highlights<\/em>, or<em> None<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070142\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070142\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20458\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2. Mobile app notifications<\/h3>\n<p>Many users don\u2019t like the Facebook mobile app because it tends to drown the phone in notifications. But these too can be configured so that you receive only the most important ones.<\/p>\n<p>The app settings look a little different, but for those who use social media mainly on their smartphone, the interface is, if anything, even more user-friendly. To open the notification settings, tap the settings icon in the upper-right corner and scroll to <em>Help &amp; Settings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>Notification Settings<\/em> section, just as in the desktop version, the notifications you receive are grouped thematically. By tapping any of the categories (for example, <em>Activity that involves you<\/em>), you can turn on or off push, e-mail, and SMS notifications for each of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070148\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070148\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n7-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20463\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tapping <em>Push notifications<\/em> under <em>Where you receive notifications<\/em>, you can choose whether you want to receive them at all, and if you do, whether they come with a sound, vibration, or LED alert. If you don\u2019t want to be overly distracted by Facebook, you should disable all three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070151\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070151\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n8-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20468\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>3. E-mail notifications <\/h3>\n<p>Facebook \u201cspam\u201d is the bane of many people\u2019s lives, when dozens of unread messages accumulate in the inbox. Most of them are probably junk, but you might actually want to get some of them \u2014 for example, reminders of friends\u2019 birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>By default, Facebook subscribes you to all topics, and if you wish, you can simply unsubscribe at the end of a message. But that\u2019s not very handy. Another way is to unsubscribe is from inside the mobile app, for each separate topic as described above, or by tapping <em>Email<\/em> under <em>Where you receive notifications<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070149\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070149\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n9-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20466\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the desktop version, the <em>Email address <\/em>setting is slightly different. It\u2019s not possible to unsubscribe from updates by topic as in the app, but you can choose whether you want to receive content-related notifications in general, or just messages about security and privacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070146\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070146\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20464\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also change individual notification settings for comments on your live videos and notifications about promotional offers that you have saved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070145\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/12\/13070145\/how-to-adjust-facebook-notifications-EN-n11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20461\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notifications are grouped thematically, so adjusting them gives you some insight into the types of content available on Facebook. While you\u2019re at it, don\u2019t forget to configure the <u>security<\/u> and <u>privacy<\/u> settings in your Facebook account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook sends so many notifications that sometimes it\u2019s tempting just to turn them off. 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