How to add apps to priority mode on your Android?

  • Priority mode on Android allows you to receive only selected notifications from users and apps.
  • It is useful to filter important notifications instead of receiving all or none.
  • You can activate Priority mode manually or schedule it for specific times.
  • You can add specific apps to Priority mode so you don't miss important notifications.

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Android's Priority mode is very useful to receive only notifications from those users that we want. But the truth is that we can also include in this Priority mode applications that we want to be able to send us notifications in this Priority mode. How to add the applications to the Priority mode of your Android?

Apps in Priority mode

Priority mode has become very useful since Silent Mode was removed. It is an intermediate level between the way in which we do not receive a single notification, and the way in which we receive all the notifications. But it is useful, because we can be selective when choosing which users and which applications we want to receive notifications from when this mode is activated. And it is a mode that we can activate both manually and automatically at specific times. We already talked about how to add users as priority on our Android mobile. However, we can also add apps to this Priority mode. How?

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To do this, we will have to go to Settings, and then to Sound and Notifications. I know, it is not very intuitive, but it is the way to follow to select the apps we want in Priority mode. Next, we select Application notifications, and here we will find all the apps that we have on our mobile. By clicking on any of these apps we will have the option to activate the Priority mode in each of these applications. Thus, even if we activate this mode, we will continue to receive notifications from these applications. It is a way of blocking notifications from all other apps and leaving those of our email, for example, or WhatsApp, or the app that we use to communicate at work, for example, so that we only receive that that is really important, until we activate the standard mode again.


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