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If you keep getting bombarded with notifications fromweird subredditsyou don’t even remember visiting, take a deep breath. We know how irritating those can be. Fortunately, there is an easy way on both desktop and mobile to limit your Reddit notifications or–if you wish–block them entirely so you can focus on what matters.
How to Manage Your Reddit Notifications on Desktop
There are two ways to manage Reddit notifications on your desktop. You can either selectively turn off notifications through your Reddit settings. Or you can completelystop the Reddit website from showing notifications through your web browser.
How to Selectively Turn Off Reddit Notifications on Desktop
To turn off select Reddit notifications on your desktop, open up your preferred browser, visitreddit.com, and sign into your account.
Next, click on your profile icon in the top right corner of the screen and select “User Settings.”
On the following screen, select “Notifications” from the menu tab to open your notification settings.
From here, you can toggle individual notifications on or off and customize your notifications according to your preferences.
How to Block All Reddit Notifications on Desktop
To block all Reddit notifications on your desktop, you’ll need to tweak the site settings on your web browser. We will demonstrate this withGoogle Chrome, but you can replicate this process inEdge,Safari, or whatever other browser you use.
First, click on the three vertical dots in the top right corner of your browser. Then select “Settings” to bring up your browser settings.
Next, select “Privacy and Security” from the sidebar.
Then click on “Site Settings.”
Under “Permissions,” click “Notifications.”
Then, type “reddit.com” into the search bar at the top right.
Now scroll down, and you should find a Reddit website under the “Allowed to Send Notifications” heading. Click on the three dots next to the Reddit website.
Select “Block” from the options.
How to Manage Your Reddit Notifications on Mobile
There are two ways to manage your Reddit notifications on mobile. You can selectively turn off notifications in your app settings or completely block all notifications by turning off Reddit notifications in your phone settings.
The process of selectively turning off Reddit notifications is identical on Android and iPhones. So, we will treat them together. On the other hand, we will address how to block all notifications separately.
How to Turn Off Select Reddit Notifications on Mobile
First, open the Reddit app and sign into your account. Next, tap on your profile at the top right of your screen.
Click on “Account Settings.”
Choose “Manage Notifications.”
You can now toggle your notifications on or off and customize them however suits you.
How to Block All Reddit Notifications on Android
To block all Redditnotifications on your Android phone, you’ll need to change your notification settings. Note that if your phone runs on the stock Android version or a different skin, the process to block your Reddit notifications may look a little different. If that’s the case, check out our guide onhow to disable notifications on Android.
Open the settings app from your home page, or swipe down from the top of your phone screen to open the control center and click the gear icon.
Next, scroll down until you find “Apps.”
Tap on “Manage Apps.”
The next screen will show a list of all your apps. Scroll down until you find Reddit, and click on it to open the app info.
Select “Notifications.”
On the next screen, switch the toggle off to block all Reddit notifications.
How to Block All Reddit Notifications on iPhone
To block all Redditnotifications on your iPhone, open the “Settings” app and select “Notifications.”
Scroll through the app list and tap on Reddit.
Finally, switch the “Allow Notifications” toggle off to block all Reddit notifications.
Note that blocking Reddit notifications in your phone settings completely overrides any changes you made to your notifications in-app. So, if you block a few notifications in the app and block notifications in your phone settings, you won’t receive any Reddit notifications at all.
How to Limit or Block Notifications From Specific Subreddits
If you keep getting Reddit notifications from a subreddit you are not interested in, here’s how to limit or turn them off.
How to Limit or Block Notifications from Specific Subreddits on Desktop
Click on your profile in the top right corner and select “User Settings.” Next, switch to the “Notifications” menu and click “Community Alerts.”
This will bring up all the communities you’ve joined.
The bell icon next to each of your communities represents their notification frequency. There are three options: off, low, and frequent.
If you want to stop all notifications from a particular subreddit, select “Off.” But if you only want to limit the notifications, select “Low.”
How to Limit or Block Notifications From Specific Subreddits on Mobile
First, open the Reddit app and click on your profile in the top right corner. Next, hit “Settings” and select “Account Settings.” Head over to “Manage Notifications” and select “Communities.” This will bring up a list of all the communities you’ve joined.
To turn off notifications from a particular subreddit. Select the bell icon that has a slash through it.
Select the bell icon in the middle to reduce notifications from a subreddit.
Remove All Pesky Reddit Notifications
Pesky Reddit notifications can clutter your notification panel, distract you, and ruin your workflow. However, now that you know how to manage them, you canmake Reddit suck lessand only get notifications that are important to you or–if you wish–none at all.
