Whether to avoid distractions, for privacy or to reduce smartphone battery consumption, we may want notifications not to reach our mobile phone. We can deactivate notifications in Telegram or we can prevent notifications from certain users. If you want to use Telegram without major distractions, keep reading as I explain it to you.
But first of all I want to warn you that mobile phone addiction is a reality that many people suffer from. Continuous attention to the mobile phone can be taken as an illness in some critical cases. If you consider that you may suffer from mobile phone addiction (nomophobia) you should seek professional help.
Why disable notifications on Telegram?
Living a life glued to social networks can generate a lot of stress on a daily basis.. The lives of many people are conditioned by their attachment to all those applications that keep them in contact with the internet. Whether for work or fun, we can abuse these types of applications and not realize the stress it generates for us.
Furthermore, although we need to be active on Telegram for work reasons, it is advisable to eliminate all distractions since in this way we will be able to improve our productivity and also optimize our time management.
Deactivating the notifications that interest us makes our mobile experience much safer. One of the reasons for this is because if we remove notifications we prevent messages from appearing on the phone screen that other people can see.
Therefore, today Let's see how to deactivate notifications in Telegram so you can better control the constant arrival of notifications.
How to disable notifications for all Telegram
We can modify the notifications as we wish. I explain everything you can change to avoid distractions regarding Telegram notifications.
But first let's see how to access the menu that allows us to select our preferences regarding notifications. It's very simple, I'll tell you. Step by Step where to find this menu.
- Access the «Settings» from your mobile.
- Search and click on the option “Applications«.
- Then search «Manage applications» and click there.
- In the search bar or by searching manually, find the Telegram app.
- Once inside the Telegram administration options we click on «Notifications«.
- We are already in the menu for remove all notifications from this app or regulate notifications at will.
You can choose what type of notifications you want to receive. As you will see on the notifications screen (access quickly with this guide: Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Telegram>Notifications) you have many customization options. I explain the fundamental options.
The most interesting thing is to be able to restrict notifications according to their origin. That is, we can stop receiving notifications from channels, private messages, other types of communication or all notifications at the same time.
Additionally, as an additional setting you can choose what type of notice you will receive for each notification. I recommend you remove the vibration and the LED light from your notifications if you always have your cell phone at hand to reduce battery consumption. Although if what you want is to eliminate distractions you should click on the first option that says "Show notifications" and remove them from the root.
How to stop seeing notifications from a contact
If what we want is turn off notifications for a contact that constantly sends us those annoying notices to our mobile, we can access the Telegram app itself.
The way to do this is very simple. The only thing we will have to do is search for the contact we are not interested in in receiving information and leave your finger on that contact. If you hold down on a person or organization, the top menu will change and offer you new customization options.
In this case we can make this contact always occupy the first position in our Telegram feed, we can delete the contact, archive it, mark it as read, delete its data from the cache or what interests us: silence its notifications. All of these options open when you press and hold on a contact.
As you can see, it is simple and intuitive, Press and hold on the contact and click on the button, from the top menu, shaped like a speaker with a diagonal line in front. You will no longer be bothered by notifications from this contact.
This is one of those tricks that improve our experience with Telegram, which is an excellent app full of customization and privacy options. There is many tricks for TelegramIf you are a user of the messaging app, I recommend you see how to access the secret Telegram library here.
