- With Android, Google offers an easy way to eliminate duplicate notifications on Pixel phones.
- You can disable duplicate notifications inside Settings > Notifications > Dismiss notifications across Pixel devices.
- If you're getting duplicate notification on the same device, you can turn off specific Notification categories for an app.
If you use two or more Pixels with the same set of apps signed in to the same account, you may have an issue receiving redundant notifications. However, Google has a workaround for that on Pixel devices, when you can customize alerts in such a way that dismissing the notification on one Google Pixel phone will also dismiss it on another device, let’s say, a Pixel Tablet. Duplicate notifications can be annoying, so here’s how to use the feature to disable duplicate notifications on Google Pixel.
How to Disable Duplicate Notifications on Google Pixel
Considering you’re using the same Google account on both devices, there is a feature that, when turned on, can dismiss notifications across Pixel devices. Here’s how to enable it.
- Launch the Settings app on your Pixel and go to the Notifications section.
- Swipe down to the “Sync across devices” section and tap on Dismiss notifications across Pixel devices.
- Turn on the Dismiss on this device toggle.
- Your device should now ask for notification permission. So, grant the necessary permission by turning on the Allow notification access on the next screen.
- In the dialog box that appears, tap on Allow to proceed.
- The feature should now be active and will dismiss duplicate notifications across your Pixel devices.
How to Turn Off Multiple Notifications on Google Pixel
If you’re getting duplicate notifications, in the sense that notifications carrying a similar theme are being pushed by apps, you can choose to block them. This is all thanks to the Notification Channels feature on Android. Here’s how you can use it.
- If the unwanted notification is currently active, long-press it and tap on the cogwheel icon on the right.
- This will take you to all notification channels of the app. Here, turn off the toggles for unwanted notifications across multiple categories.
- If you don’t want to turn off notifications from a category completely, you can customize them by tapping on the category and toggling the options inside it.
- For example, if I want the notifications from a channel to arrive while being minimized, I’ll toggle on the Minimize option.
Say you were using a new Pixel for a while and go back to the older one, your phone would ring with all the pending notifications accumulated over several weeks. Not anymore. Google has recently solved it by auto-rejecting app notifications that are over 14 days old.
Besides, the Notification Cooldown feature is also your best friend. In case you receive multiple/duplicate notifications from apps at once, Android will suppress them. So, the notification chime won’t play for all the subsequent notifications.
And that’s how you can disable duplicate notifications on Google Pixel. Have you ever had moments where you’ve felt that Android has a poor way of managing notifications? Let us know in the comments.
If you’re getting multiple notifications from the same app, you can go to the Notification channels of the app and disable multiple channels.
If an app is sending you too many notifications on repeat, you can snooze them for some time by expanding and tapping the alarm icon. You can change the time to 15, 30 minutes, and 2 hours
The dismiss feature helps keep notifications in check for apps with the same account logged in on two Pixel devices. Pixel phones cannot sync notifications if the app is not installed on either device.
