Windows 10: Turn On or Off Notifications from Apps and Senders in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Notifications from Apps and Senders in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Notifications from Apps and Senders in Windows 10


The Action Center in Windows 10 collects and shows notifications and alerts from traditional Windows applications and system notifications, alongside those generated from modern apps. Notifications are then grouped in the Action Center by app and time. When the Action Center gets a new notification, it will briefly show a notification banner above the taskbar notification area to let you know.

Starting with badges appearing on UWP apps on the taskbar in addition to their Live Tiles and in Action Center. These badges are lightweight notifications that are contextual and specific to individual apps. For example, the Mail apps badge shows you the number of unseen emails (not unread). The Alarms & Clock apps badge will show you that you have an active alarm. The Weather apps badge lets you know when there is a weather alert in the area.





This tutorial will show you how to completely turn on or off getting notifications from apps and other senders for your account in Windows 10.

*note This will not affect Windows system notifications.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On or Off All Notifications from Apps and Other Senders in Settings
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off All Notifications from Apps and Other Senders using a REG file
• Option Three: To Turn On or Off Notifications from Specific Apps and Senders in Settings
• Option Four: To Turn Off Notifications from Specific Apps and Senders in Action Center
• Option Five: To Turn Off Notifications for Specific App from Notification

EXAMPLE: App notification in Action Center (bottom) and Notification banner for app (top)












OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off All Notifications from Apps and Other Senders in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon.

2. Do step 3 (off) or step 4 (on) below for what you would like to do.


3. To Turn Off Notifications from Apps and Other Senders
*note This will turn off showing notifications in the Action Center and notification banners for all apps.

When you turn off app notifications, you will not be able to turn on or off notifications and notification banners for individual apps.
A) Click/tap on Notifications & actions on the left side, turn off Get notifications from apps and other senders, and go to step 5 below. (see screenshot below)





4. To Turn On Notifications from Apps and Other Senders
*note This is the default setting.

After turning on app notifications, you can now turn on or off notifications and notification banners for individual apps in Option Three or Option Four below if you like.
A) Click/tap on Notifications & actions on the left side, and turn on Get notifications from apps and other senders. (see screenshot below)

B) If you like, you can now turn on or off notifications and notification banners for individual apps and senders in Option Three or Option Four below.




5. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off All Notifications from Apps and Other Senders using a REG file

*note This option is the same as Option One above, but uses .bat files to make the setting change instead.

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications

ToastEnabled DWORD

0 = Turn off
1 = Turn on

1. Do step 2 or step 3 below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn Off Notifications from Apps and Other Senders
*note This will turn off showing notifications in the Action Center and notification banners for all apps.

When you turn off app notifications, you will not be able to turn on or off notifications and notification banners for individual apps.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_App_Notifications.reg

Download

3. To Turn On Notifications from Apps and Other Senders
*note This is the default setting.

After turning on app notifications, you can now turn on or off notifications and notification banners for individual apps in Option Three or Option Four below if you like.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_App_Notifications.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. sign in to apply.

8. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.





OPTION THREE [/i] To Turn On or Off Notifications from Specific Apps and Senders in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon.

2. Click/tap on Notifications & actions on the left side, turn on (default) or off notifications for apps and senders you want under Get notifications from these senders on the right side. (see screenshot below)

*note If the listed apps and senders are grayed out, then you have notifications completely turned off in Option One or Option Two above.

You will only see apps and senders listed that you had already gotten notifications from.

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.









OPTION FOUR [/i] To Turn Off Notifications from Specific Apps and Senders in Action Center
1. Open the action center.

2. Right click or press and hold on either the notification or group name of the app/sender (ex: Alarms & Clock) you want, and click/tap on Turn off notifications for this group. (see screenshots below)








OPTION FIVE [/i] To Turn Off Notifications for Specific App from Notification
*note This option is only available starting with Windows 10 build 18932 for some Insiders in the Fast ring.
1. When you get a notification from an app, click/tap on the Settings (gear) icon in the notification, and click/tap on Turn off all notifications for <app name>.





That's it,
Shawn


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Repeated Notifications

To stop repeated notifications :- go to settings then notifications and actions , turn off get notifications from apps and other senders then switch off with restart. Sign back in app notification gone.

Go to settings > notifications & actions and turn on notifications from apps and other senders, switch off then sign back in > NO APP NOTIFICATION.

Hope this helps, Neil

 

Windows 10 Photo App.

Take control by opening the Settings app and going to the Notifications & Actions section:

• To turn off all notifications from apps, move the Get notifications from apps and other senders slider to the Off position.

• To choose which apps are allowed to interrupt you, scroll down to the section headed Show Get notifications from these senders. Move the slider for an individual app to the Off position to silence all notifications from that app or feature.

For more fine-grained control over how an individual app can display notifications, click the app's entry in the Notifications list.

Source & more =>
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-dis...

 

Thank you throkr. You just gotta love the constant changes. *Smile

 

I have all these settings turned on and still no sound or banner. Have 2 computers with Windows 10 and the same problem on all two of them. I'm going back to 2010 Office Outlook to read my mail. At least I can get the sound using Outlook.

 

Hello osubuckeye, *Smile

Double check the settings in the tutorial below for the Mail app to see if it may help.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

Definitely ! *Smile (tutorial already updated : thumbs up !)

 

Hi, I have isolated apps missing from the 'get notifications from these senders' list. Most apps are listed under here so they can be turned on or off but things like cortana and Facebook are missing. Any ideas or fixes that can be run and downtown break other things? I'm mainly wanting cortana to be available in the list, she works fine in start menu and I do have tidbits switched on but she just not show in the action center

Thanks, Wayne

 

Hi I have Contana and Face Book both turned on, but I only get notified when it finds a new post etc, it does otherwise show up in the New Notifications, or if I have something marked on my Calendar then again it will appear.
Sorry I cant help you more

 

Thanks. It's weird because I don't have the option to turn then on. I got calendar and all the rest but just those two missing. Oh well, not end of the world

 

It could be the way windows 10 was set up by the manufacturer as my Acer came like that all I had to do was update it and switch them all on.
On the Toshiba I had it was different some were greyed out

 

@Brink:

I'm not sure if this is new to Build 14915 or if you've covered this, I haven't seen it anywhere.

'Prioritize Notifications':

 

Hey Edwin,

Yep. *Smile

How to Change Priority of App Notifications in Action Center in Windows 10

 

*Thumbs
"Couldn't see the forest for the trees"! *Redface

 

Thanks everyone! I feel a bit stupid now that I realise that I simply didn't scroll down far enough on the notifications and actions page. However I have also discovered that the settings in the Facebook app are simply badly worded and that you do in fact turn off whole categories of notification when you say that you don't want more notifications like one that you have just been given. I thought it meant that you could only stop notifications related to a particular post.