- One UI's Filter notifications option groups less important alerts together.
- To enable this feature, go to Settings > Notifications > Advanced settings > Filter notifications.
- You can filter notifications across three categories - Old notifications, Background activities, and Minimized notifications.
Most apps you install on your phone are bent on flooding the device with alerts you didn’t even ask for. This clutters your notifications, making it difficult to sort through them. Thankfully, Samsung’s filter notification feature is here to the rescue. It bundles less important alerts, making room for the important ones. So here’s a quick guide to help you learn how to use Filter notifications in One UI 7.
What is “Filter Notifications” on One UI 7?
The Filter notification feature arrived with the One UI 7 on Samsung Galaxy devices. You can find it under the Advanced settings option on the Notifications page. As the name implies, it lets you filter unnecessary or old notifications, by bundling them together at the very bottom of all the notifications list.
This way, you can keep tabs on the important stuff, instead of scrolling past unwanted alerts and updates. Then, when you can get some free time, you can catch up with the older and low-priority notifications. It can help minimize distractions as well. Sounds useful right? Then let’s see how to enable it.
How to Filter Notifications in One UI on a Samsung Phone
The Filter notifications option is accessible inside the Notifications page on One UI 7. Here’s how you can enable this feature on your Samsung Phone.
- Head over to the settings app on your phone.
- Now go to the Notifications menu.
- Here, scroll down and select Advanced settings.
- Then tap on Filter notifications.
- Finally, turn on the toggles for the following categories: Old notifications, Background activities, and Minimized notifications.
You can choose whichever to enable, and which one to leave turned off, as per your preference.
What Happens When You Filter Notifications in One UI?
The feature affects your notifications depending on which filters you have enabled. There are a total of three individual filters that you can turn on. Here’s what each one does:
- Old notifications: This will filter out all notifications that are more than a couple of days old. So you don’t get distracted by older alerts and focus on the recent ones.
- Background activities: This applies to apps that run in the background, like Wavelet or MicroG. These apps show a “running in the background” alert, which you can hide with this filter.
- Minimized notifications: These are app alerts you have manually minimized in their notifications settings.
After turning it on, you will see alerts from the said category that will be bundled as one, even if they are from different apps. You can tap on “x more notifications” to reveal all the alerts and then go through them one by one. The option will group them even if they belong to different apps.
This is one of those hidden gems that usually go unnoticed on a device. Typically, when I reach work on Monday after a long weekend, I have a long list of notifications along with alerts for the current day. I can’t dismiss the older ones as it could lead to missing something important. So this option is helpful for me to focus on my current task, and then go back to the other stuff.
