You Can Now Enable or Disable Specific Notifications in Facebook

The debut of Notification Channels with Android 8.0 Oreo brought a huge respite from pesky notifications, every bit it allowed users to specify which notifications they wanted to receive from an app. While multiple apps seem to be adding support for the feature, a few of the virtually widely used apps lacked compatibility for it, including the Facebook app. But that changes now.

At long last, the Facebook app has finally gained support for Android'due south Notification Channels, which means you tin can now choose to meet only the important notifications from the Facebook app, and mute those events you lot never want to be notified of in the first identify.

As can be seen in the screenshot to a higher place, you can choose to enable or mute notifications pertaining to events such as comments on your posts, when someone has tagged you, birthday alerts, friend requests and a ton of other events. The Facebook app gained back up for Android's Notification Channels with a recent update, which upgraded the social media app to version 185.0.0.39.72.

In example you want to tinker with notification settings for the Facebook app, but follow this path on your Android smartphone:

• Settings > Apps & Notifications > All Apps > Facebook > Notifications

You can now select/deselect the notification permission for specific events that yous want to be notified about from the Facebook app. Well, you tin finally exhale a sigh of relief if you lot are tired of unlocking your phone every few minutes to check a notification that is of lilliputian to no significance.

Additionally, the Facebook Messenger app has besides gained support for adaptive icons, which ways the design of the messaging app'south icon is now customizable and will blend perfectly with the theme you apply.

Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-app-notification-channels-android/

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