How to Block Marketing Offers and Notifications on Your Android Phone
Tired of your apps showing notifications for marketing offers and other offers you are not interested in? You can disable them on Android.
If you’re like most people, you probably get at least a few dozen notifications on your phone every day. A quite annoying part of these notifications are marketing offers and promotions sent by various apps like shopping apps, social media apps, delivery apps, payment apps and more.
Let’s take a look at how you can prevent apps on your phone from sending you marketing offers without completely disabling their app notifications. This way you can filter out what kind of notifications you want to see and still check the updates that are important to you.
How to prevent apps from sending marketing notifications
There isn’t a single standardized button you can press to stop receiving marketing notifications on your phone (we wish it were that simple). Instead, you have to go to each app’s info page and turn off certain types of notifications there.
We use a Samsung phone; The menus may be slightly different on other devices, but the steps are roughly the same. Here’s what you need to do:
- Go to Settings > Apps and choose an app that gives you a lot of marketing notifications.
- On the app info page, tap Notifications > Notification Categories and uncheck any categories that are not useful to you.
Note that each app names its categories differently and there is no common naming scheme to simplify this process. So you’ll need to repeat this process for each app you want to turn off marketing notifications for.
You can disable it in the Google Play Store payments, Offersand recommendations. You can switch off on Instagram Product Announcements and shopping drops. Fortunately, we have a trick that can make this process a little faster.
How to recognize apps that send marketing offers with notification history
To see which apps are sending you the most notifications (and about what), you can search your phone’s notification history. This allows you to recognize the apps that send you regular marketing notifications.
Go to Settings > Notifications > Advanced settings > Notification history and check which apps are sending the most notifications and of what type. Make a list of the apps that are sending the most marketing actions and disable the relevant notification categories in the app settings.
Alternatively, you can try these fixes if you’re not seeing notifications on your Android device. And if you’re getting notifications from apps you don’t even use anymore, you should probably delete those apps from your phone entirely.
Avoid getting marketing notifications on your Android phone
Notifications can be annoying, but you know some of them are important, so you can’t turn them off entirely. Luckily, notification categories let you choose what types of notifications you actually want to see.
If, like us, you instinctively swipe away marketing notifications at first glance, consider disabling them in settings so you don’t have to swipe them away every time.