Solution Found: Notification Categories Deleted for Google Messages

[Ivan21234]

I know how to enable notification categories for each app: Settings > Notifications > Advanced settings > Toggle "Manage notification categories for each app" on. This post is about something different.

Within the Messages notification categories, there used to be a toggle called "Show as pop-up" that was global for all conversations. This got switched off accidentally before it disappeared completely from the Messages notification categories, so I couldn't toggle it back on.

Without this setting available, I would've had to toggle the setting on for each conversation, one-by-one— which you can imagine is a huge pain— so I did a factory reset. This brought the setting back, but now it's gone again.

Now there's text at the bottom of the Messages notification categories that reads "# categories deleted." 

How do I restore the global pop-up notification toggle, and how do I stop Messages or Samsung (or whoever) from deleting this setting?

SOLUTION FOUND, thanks to Stereo386! I didn't realize things that are toggles can also be buttons that lead you to a different page.

Turns out, all I had to do was tap the "Incoming messages" text on the Google Messages notification categories, and there be the toggle 🫠 In my defense, Android (or Samsung) is notorious for just moving and hiding things, that much I know.

Anyway, leaving this post up in case anyone else makes the same mistake I did.

[meself]

May want to reinstall

[Ivan21234]

Hi, thank you for your reply! I went to the Google Play Store to uninstall it, and although it says "Uninstall" on the Google Messages page, I think that only uninstalls updates. Either way, I did that, rebooted and checked before and after updating. Still no toggle for pop-ups, sadly, but thank you for the suggestion

[Stereo386 · Accepted solution]

Click into each of the categories and then select the pop up option. You can do this for each contact or contact groups, or different threads. I hope this helps.

[Ivan21234]

Oh my gosh, thank you! I didn't realize the toggle "Incoming Messages" was also a button that takes you to another page. Sorry, I'm still learning about this new OS

[Stereo386]

Hey no problem at all, this is what this space is for. Let the @moderators know that you accept this as the solution please, if that is the case of course. Greatly appreciated 👏 😁😁

[Ivan21234]

Absolutely! I hope you have the BEST weekend 😂❤

[Stereo386]

Thanks for accepting the solution. 😊🙏

[Stereo386]

Or you can adjust the pop up options on the notification settings too. In the system settings where it shows "apps to show as brief" you can choose between pop up and brief for each app separately