Facebook notifications on computers and mobile phones can become annoying if we receive many in a short time or if, after opening them, we realize that they only waste us time and effort in viewing them (often due to games or invitations to events or groups we will never participate in). It is therefore worth discovering how to reduce the annoyance, showing you the options to configure to eliminate the most annoying Facebook notifications from the computer (via the web browser) or from the official Facebook apps for Android and iPhone / iPad. At the end of the guide we will be able to personally manage which notifications to receive to limit or even deactivate them completely, so as to view the news or quotes on the blue social network, only when we open the site or the app (much less frustrating).
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Restrict or block Facebook notifications on PC and smartphone
In the following chapters we will see together how to best manage Facebook notifications from any computer or from the official app on smartphones and Android phones and on iPhone / iPad. Finally we will show you how to block everything and no longer receive any notification, ideal for the most extreme and annoying situations.Manage Facebook notifications from PC
To manage Facebook notifications and choose what to notify and what to ignore, we open the Facebook page from any web browser (Chrome is fine) and enter the access credentials of our account; once arrived in our profile, we press at the top right on the arrow-shaped symbol and click on the Settings item. In the new window we press on the side of the Notifications menu, so as to have access to all the settings for site notifications.
We press on the type of notification that we want to delete and remove the check mark on the item Allow Facebook notifications, so that a No appears next to it.
We repeat all the steps for notifications that we absolutely do not want to receive; alternatively we can also only receive notifications from the PC or only from the app, using one of the buttons immediately below the type of notification that we are configuring (obviously the global setting on the notification must be active).
Manage Facebook notifications from apps
To manage notifications from the Facebook app, open it, log in with our account then press the icon in the top right in the shape of a hamburger (three horizontal lines), so that we can expand the Settings and privacy menu and be able to press then on Settings . In the new screen we scroll down to find the Notification Settings menu, from where we can manage every aspect of Facebook notifications.
Exactly as seen on the site we will have various types of notifications available, just press on the one we think is most annoying and remove the check under the heading Push . To immediately block all notifications we can also use the Disable push notifications item, so that we do not have to worry about any notifications on our smartphone or tablet anymore.
How to block all Facebook notifications
If some notifications escape our blocks or we want to quickly block all notifications without opening the settings seen at the top, we can quickly act in the settings of the Google Chrome browser or in the settings for the apps offered by the operating system in use.On Google Chrome we can block Facebook notifications by opening the site page, clicking on the padlock symbol (in the address bar) at the top left, pressing on Site settings and setting Notifications on Block .
On Mozilla Firefox we can disable Facebook notifications by clicking on the menu with the three horizontal lines at the top right, pressing on the Options menu, bringing us to the Privacy and security menu and finally pressing the Settings button, present next to the Notifications item.
We identify the Facebook site in the list, then set it to Block, so as to eliminate all the notifications of the social network in a flash.
On a smartphone or Android tablet just open the Facebook app, go to the list of open apps (by holding down on the Home button, pressing the Recent button or swiping from the lower edge to the center of the screen, holding down a few seconds), hold pressed on the Facebook app and finally press on Settings -> Notifications, where you just have to remove the check mark on the item View notifications .
On other Android smartphones or tablets the menu may be slightly different and, in many cases, it will be accessible by going to the Settings app, opening the App or Applications path and finally pressing on the Facebook item, where it will be sufficient to search for the Notifications menu to eliminate the notifications of Facebook.
Finally, if we have an iPhone or iPad, we will have to act as seen in the previous chapter (i.e. directly inside the app), since the Facebook app for iOS or iPadOS forces the start of notifications also at the system level (it is not You can use the Notifications menu to change your Facebook app settings).
Conclusions
As you can see, Facebook notifications are not so simple to understand: to have full control over them, we advise you to start from the settings offered by the website, then refine them from the mobile application.Always themed Facebook and Messenger (to be always installed together) we can read our guides on How to disable Facebook Messenger notifications .
To learn more about the notifications to disable on browsers, we invite you to read our article on How to disable notifications from sites in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari .
