The sound you choose to be notified when you receive a text, call, or social media update is important, as it’s what you’ll primarily need to hear to know when someone is trying to contact you. Whether you own the new Galaxy S23 or have a mid-range Galaxy A53 5G as your smartphone of choice, Android gives you many different options when it comes to the sound you hear when you receive a notification.
If you don’t like the default notification sound or want to add your own personal style to your phone, changing the notification sound on your Galaxy phone is a relatively simple process. Fortunately, the steps are the same regardless of whether you have Samsung’s latest flagship like the Galaxy S23 Ultra or a cheaper device like the Galaxy S21 FE. Follow the steps below to learn everything you need to know about how to change notification sounds on Galaxy devices.
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How to change all your notifications to a new sound
There are a handful of options when it comes to changing your notification sounds. The easiest is to change them all to one sound. When you do this, you will hear the same noise when you receive a text as if you received an email. Changing this option is best for those who don’t need custom sounds for their individual apps, but don’t love the default sounds their Galaxy device is using out of the box.
Step 1: From the home screen of your Samsung phone, swipe down to access your quick settings.
Step 2: Select the Settings option (the gear icon).
Step 3: In it Settings menu select sounds and vibrations.
Stage 4: Select notification sounds in the next menu.
You will now see a list of possible notification sounds that you can set. Select one and all your notifications will start making this sound.
How to set up a custom notification for an individual app
General notification noises are fine, but if you’re juggling personal WhatsApp notifications and your team’s Slack notifications at work, you might want to have different notification sounds so you know which app is sending an alert. If you don’t like the native sound that the app produces on its own, you can change the notifications for each individual app to get the exact sounds you want. This is what you should do.
Step 1: Once again, start by swiping down to open your quick settings menu, and choose the Settings icon.
Step 2: This time scroll down until you reach Applicationsand select it.
Step 3: Your downloaded apps will appear in alphabetical order. Select the app for which you want to change the notification sound.
Stage 4: Go to the Application Settings section and select the notifications option.
Step 5: Here, you can choose to enable or disable notifications for this app. This is a great way to make sure that only certain apps make sounds on your Samsung phone. If this is one of the apps you want to make noise, Enable notifications must be on. Select notification categories at the end of the page.
Step 6: In it notification categories menu select Miscellaneous.
Step 7: In the next window, select Sound. It will redisplay the list of possible notification sounds, where you can choose the sound you want to enable.
How to add new notification sounds to your Samsung phone
If you’re not a fan of the sounds Galaxy phones offer by default, you can add your own custom sounds to your device. That is how:
Step 1: Download the sound file that you want to use as the notification sound. The easiest way to do this is to email yourself the audio clip you want to use, and then open the email on your phone. When looking at the audio attachment, select the download icon, which is represented by an arrow pointing down in a straight line.
With your audio downloaded, go to the My files application, then select downloads and find your sound file. Since you just downloaded it, the file should be at the top of the download list.
Step 2: Touch and hold the audio file you have downloaded, and then select Move at the bottom of the screen.
Step 3: With the file selected and ready to move, return to the my file home screen and select Internal storage.
Stage 4: While inside the internal storage menumake sure the dropdown says All and not essentials. With that selected, you’ll see all the different file location options for your device. Select the notifications file.
Step 5: Within notifications folder, select move here in the bottom right corner of the screen and your file will be transferred.
Step 6: With the file transferred, head into settings and follow the steps listed above to add custom notification sounds. When it’s time to select the sound, your custom notification sound will now appear as an option under a new header titled Habit.
How to remove custom notifications on a Samsung phone
Are you bored with the new personalized notifications on your Samsung phone? Don’t worry, it’s easy to remove them. In fact, removing a notification sound is done in exactly the same way as changing it to the custom sound in the first place.
Follow the steps above to set custom notification sounds, but instead of setting custom sound in the sound menu, select Defaultand the custom sound will be replaced by your device’s default sound.
How to snooze notification sounds on a Samsung phone
If you get a lot of notifications and want to temporarily turn them off, Galaxy devices give you the option to “snooze” notifications from specific apps.
Step 1: Open the quick settings menu by sliding down from the top of the screen and select the gear icon in the upper right corner to access your device settings.
Step 2: In settings select notifications.
Step 3: In it notifications menu select advanced settings.
Stage 4: In it advanced settings menu, change the show snooze button set to be on.
Step 5: With the setting turned on, you will be able to snooze notifications by selecting an app notification you want to snooze and then selecting the bell icon in the lower left corner of the notification. Once you do, you’ll be asked to select how long you want to snooze the notification. Once you have chosen, select Save and you will not receive any notifications from that app during the time you selected.
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