You're nearly to settle in to watch a movie. You would really rather not be disturbed by that one pesky group chat, so you go to plow your phone volume off. But then you remember that one of your family unit members is having a hard time and might call. If only yous could turn off notifications for individual conversations.

On Android, you can alter individual text conversations, including group chats, from "Default" to "Priority" or "Silent." Here, we'll talk about how to brand that change and what the unlike settings mean.

How to Adjust Notification Settings for Specific Conversations

With a text conversation open up, select the three-dots icon from the upper right corner. Then, select the elevation detail in the resulting carte. If the conversation is with i other person, this option volition say Details but if the chat is with two or more people, the option will say Group details.

Adjacent, select Notifications under the Options section in the center of the screen. From here, you can set the notifications for the specific conversation to Priority, Default, or Silent.

What Different Settings Do (and Don't) Mean

When a conversation is set to Silent, you will still get a graphic notification on your screen to let you lot know that you accept a new message. However, getting a message from this chat won't brand your phone vibrate or ring, though any other text conversation volition act according to your general settings.

Default is the basic setting for all conversations. When a text comes into a conversation on this setting, the notification will be in accordance with whatever the general notification settings on your phone are.

When a conversation is prepare to Priority it has a whole different fix of rules as far every bit the display goes. The icon for the group or single contact will appear with your general phone notifications.

Unfortunately, this setting doesn't piece of work as a "reverse mute." Setting a conversation to Priority does not hateful that the conversation volition ring even if the rest of your telephone is silent.

Silence All Notifications, if You Want To

This setting is very piece of cake to use later you've establish it the commencement time. So, it's like shooting fish in a barrel to toggle these notifications on and off. Or, but silence all of your well-nigh annoying conversations condom in the knowledge that, even though your phone isn't ringing, all of those texts will be waiting for yous. When you feel like getting effectually to them, that is.

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