topic Re: App notification sound changes in Galaxy S23

App notification sound changes

Prime_Optimization — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:17:13 GMT

You know I remember the good old days when you could go into the settings of each app and assign a ringtone. Then you know what's important and what can wait when you're away from the phone but no, let's get rid of that and just choose vibrate versus ringtone and how it will pop up on the screen. It's only 2025 why the would a user be able to choose a custom ringtone for a specific app? What's next we going to do away with three-way calls and call waiting?

Re: App notification sound changes

LongHiker — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:56:26 GMT

@Prime_Optimization You can set a notification sound for each app.

Open phone settings
Click on Notifications
Click on Advanced settings
Enable Manage notification categories for each app
Go back to the Notifications settings
Click on App notifications
Click on an app that you want to configure
Ensure that Sound and vibration is enabled.
Click on Notification categories
Click on a category
If the category allows you to set a sound, you will see a "Sound" item. Click on it.
Change the sound to what you want.

Re: App notification sound changes

realaud — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:15:48 GMT

You really should investigate the settings or ask a question before just griping about not being able to do something. Granted, nowhere does Samsung explain this setting is a thing, and it is left for people to discover on their own, still no reason to come in with guns blazing. The categories were new in either Android 13 or 14 but, for some reason, Samsung decided to turn this setting off by default and not provide a hint that it existed. Subsequent updates have, at times, turned them off so users have to go back and enable them. There are plenty of posts on this issue and a simple search of the forums would have brought you to at least one of the feeds on the subject where you would have gotten the very same instructions given above by @LongHiker .

Re: Re: App notification sound changes

Prime_Optimization — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:28:01 GMT

Thanks.

Re: Re: App notification sound changes

Prime_Optimization — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:34:08 GMT

You're 100% correct. But it made me feel inferior sarcasm was the only way to cope while asking such a ridiculous question

Re: Re: App notification sound changes

kmb1 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:32:28 GMT

Apparently, you feel the need to gripe even more than OP. How does any of this concern you?

Re: Re: Re: App notification sound changes

kmb1 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:33:42 GMT

Never listen to people griping about griping. This is a free country.

Re: App notification sound changes

usermzeJaY3BsM — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:53:46 GMT

LOL, this made me think of a funny story. When Samsung first adopted this change I was on either an S10+ or my Note 20. I tried for days to figure out how to change this so that I could differentiate between which contacts were texting me. Alas I failed to figure it out, so I went into my Carriers brick and mortar store. I asked an employee about it and he gestured to a young lady who was sitting on the couch playing with her iPhone. He told me she is the best person to assist. She looked up, and realized that she was going to actually have to do work, she rolled her eyes, set down her iPhone and thrust her hand out at me like i was some sort of an invalid. I handed her my phone. 5 minutes later she still had not figured it out, I stated never mind, and asked for my phone back. Again this annoyed her and she gave my phone back, aggressivly. I walked out of the store, and looked for the setting again. I then found the setting Long Hiker pointed to, and changed it, before the door to the shop even finished closing. I am sure that the girl was thinking "Here is yet another old man who can't figure out his devices!" I knew this was going to fail the moment I saw that she was using an iPhone...

Re: App notification sound changes

Miranova23 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 05:12:27 GMT

Same issue, but there is no "Manage..." under Advanced Settings.

Re: App notification sound changes

HelicopterGirl03 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:18:18 GMT

I've already set up different sounds for individual apps, but I'm no longer able to assign individual sounds for each email. I've sent a report to Samsung, but has anyone else had this issue? I have 8+ email accounts in my Samsung email app.

Re: App notification sound changes

realaud — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:23:49 GMT

If you have the notification categories enabled, as described above, you can go to your email app notification settings, tap on categories, and you will see each email listed as a category , turn on sliders for the accounts you want and the subcategory "incoming messages" (or something like that), tap that and change the sound for each email account. The illustration below is not Samsung mail, but all mail apps should have similar settings.

Re: App notification sound changes

Members_lTT7Vjz — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:01:20 GMT

Right! The instructions for how to set different notification sounds for particular apps is not possible because "Manage ..." is not one of the choices on the list.

Re: App notification sound changes

Members_lTT7Vjz — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:02:32 GMT

So, can you tell me how to do that (select a different sound for particular notifications) when it is not possible to follow the instructions for how to set different notification sounds for particular apps is not possible because "Manage ..." is not one of the choices on the list.

Re: App notification sound changes

Members_lTT7Vjz — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:06:27 GMT

Long Hiker's 4th step is to

Enable Manage notification categories for each app

That is not an option on my phone. Can you tell me how to get that option on my phone? As it is now all of my apps give the same "alert" sound. Not useful.

Re: App notification sound changes

realaud — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:14:53 GMT

In order to turn on notification categories, you must go to settings/notifications/advanced settings/manage notification categories for all apps and turn the slider on.
After you turn the slider on, your apps will now show notification categories (not all apps have more than one category).
After you enable notification categories, you will return to the app you want to change notification sounds for, select the settings, tap "notifications", make sure notifications are on. Make sure "sound and vibration" is on.
You should now see "notification categories" in the settings. Tap notification categories, and go through your list of categories.
Turn on/off the categories you want/don't want notifications for
Tap the notification category for which you want a different sound, make sure it's set to "alert" and tap "sound" and choose a sound.
Repeat for all apps/categories for which you want anything other than the default notification sound.
If you want a specific sound for a chat in your messaging app, you have to go into the messaging app, open the chat, select the dot menu and choose "details". Then choose notifications and select the sound for that chat. Note that you are not setting a sound for the contact, but for the chat itself. It will remain set as long as the chat exists, as the sound is attached to the chat not the contact.

Re: App notification sound changes

LongHiker — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:44:11 GMT

@Members_lTT7Vjz What phone do you have? What OS and UI version is it running?

Older versions of the OS/UI do not have this option because it is always enabled.

Re: App notification sound changes

Robobo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:48:59 GMT

I've spent the better part of the day today, and the day before, going through and setting, and re-setting, all the relevant settings, following all the guides and steps, to no avail to get my legacy audible alert turned back on for my text messages. I was on the verge of cranking the car and just running over the dang device, lol. And then....then, whatever I was doing, a screen popped up for me to sign in to my Samsung acct. Yep...the whole time I was not signed in, so none of the steps that I took, took! They looked like they did!

I've been using the thing! How could I NOT be signed in???? Of course, it took what seemed like another eternity to get signed in because it did not recognize my actual, real, credentials. Got all that straightened out and, tadaaaa... my audible alert is back online. Duh.....sometimes the answer is the obvious. Are ya logged on????