How to turn off Snapchat notifications on Android

What does Snapchat send notifications about?

Snapchat’s Android notification help covers how to control what the app can ping you about. Categories typically include snaps and chats from friends, Stories and Spotlight updates, Memories reminders, and other prompts meant to pull you back into the app. Most of these are optional. You can keep the few that matter (say, chats from close friends) and cut the rest.

How do you turn off notification categories in Snapchat?

Start here if you still want some alerts. Per Snapchat’s help on controlling notifications on Android:

1. Open Snapchat and tap your Bitmoji or profile icon at the top left.
2. Tap the gear to open Settings.
3. Tap Notifications.
4. Uncheck the notification categories you want off.

Depending on your device, you may need to enable notifications for Snapchat in your phone’s settings before these in-app checkboxes work. Settings belong to the account you are signed into, so if you switch accounts, repeat for each one you use on this phone.

How do you turn off Snapchat notifications in Android settings?

If you want Snapchat silent on this phone, use Android’s own controls, per Google’s Android notification help:

1. Open Settings and tap Notifications, then App notifications (on some phones, Apps, then Snapchat, then Notifications).
2. Select All apps if needed, and find Snapchat.
3. Turn off its notifications, or tap in and turn off only the channels you do not want.

Shortcut: touch and hold a Snapchat notification in the shade and jump to its settings. This holds no matter what you leave on inside the app. You can still open Snapchat and read activity there. For the general version for any app, see how to turn off notifications for specific apps.

How do you mute Snapchat for a while?

You do not have to go permanent:

• Snooze one notification. Touch and hold it in the shade and snooze if your phone offers that. See how to snooze notifications on Android.
• Do Not Disturb. Quiet hours across every app. See how to turn on Do Not Disturb.
• Focus mode / Digital Wellbeing. Pause Snapchat (and other apps you pick) for a stretch. Per Google’s Focus mode help and Digital Wellbeing help, open Digital Wellbeing, add Snapchat to Focus mode or set an app timer, and start the pause when you need it. More detail: Focus mode and Digital Wellbeing.

These options pause the noise without deleting Snapchat or changing every category by hand.

Which option should you pick?

A good default: keep chats from close friends, uncheck Stories, Spotlight, and other prompts, and use Do Not Disturb at night. If you keep opening Snapchat from a ping and lose twenty minutes, turn the app off in Android settings. To keep previews off the lock screen, see how to hide notifications on the lock screen.

What if Snapchat notifications keep coming back?

I turned them off, but I still get some

• Check which categories are still checked in Snapchat → Settings → Notifications.
• Check Android. If Snapchat is still allowed in App notifications, any category you left on still comes through.
• Confirm you changed settings for the Snapchat account you are signed into on this phone.

The in-app Notification toggles are greyed out

• Enable Snapchat in your phone’s Settings → Notifications → App notifications first, then return to the in-app screen. Snapchat’s help calls this out for some devices.

I cannot find the setting

• Update Snapchat from Google Play, then look again under Profile → gear → Notifications. Snapchat moves menus between versions, and OEM phones label Android’s screens differently.

Where ReClaim fits

ReClaim is the Android launcher we build. It does not read or change your notifications, and it does not touch Snapchat’s settings, so everything above keeps working as described. What ReClaim changes is what you see when you unlock: a home screen with a clock and the few apps you choose, and a plain alphabetical list of names for everything else. On top of that:

• App reminders. Before Snapchat opens, ReClaim asks how long you intend to use it, then nudges you when that time is up.
• Daily and weekly limits. Give Snapchat a budget. When it is up, ReClaim can close it.
• Blocking and scheduled blocking. Block an app for a set time, or set recurring windows, like bedtime, when selected apps are not available.
• Hidden apps with friction. Hide an app with four levels of hiding, and put one of 10+ unlock challenges in front of it.

If you want to try it, see how to change the default launcher on Android; switching back is the same setting. If the real problem is the endless feed, see how to stop doomscrolling on Android.

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