topic Re: Re: Re: Re: Notification Categories! in Samsung Apps and Services

Notification Categories!

DogGoneIt1989 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:03:03 GMT

I am completely dumbfounded why this setting is not turned on by default in Notification Settings and pretty well hidden. To enable categories for all apps do the following:

Go to settings, Notifications, Advanced Settings, Toggle on Manage Notification Categories for each app. Now go to each apps information page by long pressing the app icon, tap in Notifications if the app has different categories there will be down on the bottom Manage notification categories. Some apps have multiples categories.

Example: Without Manage notification categories enabled this is the screen you see in the Members app.

Turned Off

The Members app with Manage notification categories turned on, this is what you see. I have set different tones for different categories in the members app, likes, comments and DM's.

All most every app has different categories!

Re: Notification Categories!

Mujibar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:14:19 GMT

Literally every other Android OEM has notification categories turned on by default. Samsung makes you dig for it.

Re: Re: Notification Categories!

DogGoneIt1989 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:18:18 GMT

There is no reasonable explanation that I can think of!

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Mujibar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:35:47 GMT

Why does Samsung do anything? We'll never know. One of the burdens of being a Samsung customer.

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DogGoneIt1989 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:38:15 GMT

Samsung's Motto!

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LongHiker — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:14:21 GMT

@DogGoneIt1989 Just FYI, Samsung made this change a year ago. If you are moving from an older OS/UI or a different Android I can see how this would be unexpected.

Re: Notification Categories!

ShaydeAngel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:27:47 GMT

It makes me nuts too! Like just why???

Just reset my flip 5 ( not my daily driver) and had to turn everything back on one by one on all the apps cause the settings for them refused to come down from the backup.🤦

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MrGhoul — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:30:37 GMT

Totally agree!

Re: Re: Notification Categories!

DogGoneIt1989 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:42:03 GMT

Thank you.

Regarding the unexpected nature of this change, I am fully cognizant of the modification introduced with the release of Ui6.1, commencing with the S24 series. This feature was initially disabled by default and was not readily discoverable. Upon the subsequent rollout of Ui6.1 to other devices, the default setting remained off.

Prior to the Ui6.1 update, notification categories were a standard default setting. However, with the installation of Ui6.1, all customized notification sounds for these categories were eliminated, superseded by a new feature referred to as "advanced settings." For some users, this change proved to be quite disruptive, particularly due to the difficulty in locating this new setting within their device.

To this day,. there are many that do not know this setting exists, ergo my post.

Re: Re: Notification Categories!

DogGoneIt1989 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:42:37 GMT

Ridiculous!

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Mujibar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:46:08 GMT

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DogGoneIt1989 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:48:28 GMT

No reason for this to be a separate setting. When I was in the Beta on my S23 I found it pretty quickly, others in the Beta didn't. They went ballistic!

Re: Re: Notification Categories!

Mujibar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:49:15 GMT

No other OEM does this. There is not a single logical reason for it.

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ShaydeAngel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:53:32 GMT

It really is!

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ShaydeAngel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:55:11 GMT

There's not! Especially when coming down from a backup It makes absolutely no sense.

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Mujibar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:07:45 GMT

I used Smart Switch to migrate data from my OP 13 to the S26U and it did pretty well. But there were a bunch of settings I had to go in and redo. This was one of them. Good thing I knew where it was.

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ShaydeAngel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:08:16 GMT

That's probably how I should have done it. The backup was from my S25. And I expected that there were gonna be some things that didn't come down cause its a different phone. But *everything* ?

*Deleted the first time cause the comment was in the wrong place.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Notification Categories!

Mujibar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:11:59 GMT

Backups are weird

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ShaydeAngel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:12:35 GMT

I'm learning that.

Re: Notification Categories!

IDK19 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:33:57 GMT

It's difficult when your phone has been hacked to the point where you can't keep passwords or anything from exposure