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Faith Current's avatar

Unfortunately substack doesn't offer the option to turn off all notifications. I've tried, but no matter what I do, there's that red circle with the number in it begging for my attention...

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kingflum's avatar

Hi Faith - This is a phone setting not an app setting. On iOS, you head over to settings>notifications and turn it all off - apps can't override this! Hope it works out!

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Bonnie's avatar

That's all I did. I don't see anything now, thank the gods. I check when I choose to, not when some algorithm decides I have had enough peace!

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Tracey Whicker's avatar

Thank you for this!

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Faith Current's avatar

Again, no it doesn't. I'm talking about in the actual dashboard/inbox, which is where I currently am. I've never had any kind of pop up notifications on my phone, that's not the issue. I'm referring to the internal notifications that substack gives me when I'm on the platform -- someone liked this, someone responded to that, etc. There seems to be no way to turn those off -- again, internally to substack. (And I'm on a laptop, not a phone.)

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kingflum's avatar

Ah, right, gotcha. Once you're in, you're doomed it seems!

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Faith Current's avatar

Yep. Thanks for the tip, though -- I do know a lot of people who don't seem to realise you can turn ALL notifications off on your phone. That's almost literally the first thing I do when I get a new one.

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kingflum's avatar

Same :) !!

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Kristine Neeley's avatar

Faith, when you're on desktop, if you click on the little three lines next to your profile photo on the top right there's a dropdown menu. In that menu, click Settings towards the bottom. Within Settings, scroll down to Notifications and you should be able to toggle off just about anything you don't want to be notified of.

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skaladom's avatar

I just read it in the browser - mobile or pc. Replacing a lot of apps for browser tabs gives them a good defang.

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Faith Current's avatar

So do I. I don't have the app, but there's no way to turn off all notifications on the web version either. (I'm talking here not about push notifications, but about the inter-website notifications -- that when I log in to do something on my own account, there's still a red circle with a number indicating that there are prizes for playing waiting for me. The slot machine effect.)

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skaladom's avatar

Oh that one, you're right I see it too, right now there's a green "16тАЭ at the top right on top of the hamburger menu. I don't know what 16 things could possibly be waiting for me there and I couldn't care less, bc I get notified of new posts in my RSS reader, that's the one I pay attention to.

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Kristine Neeley's avatar

If you want to turn those 16 things off: when you're on desktop, if you click on the little three lines next to your profile photo on the top right there's a dropdown menu. In that menu, click Settings towards the bottom. Within Settings, scroll down to Notifications and you should be able to toggle off just about anything you don't want to be notified of.

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Faith Current's avatar

You'd think, but from what I've been able to tell, it only turns off email notifications, not the ones internal to substack.

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Kristine Neeley's avatar

I stand corrected! Sorry about that. I assumed it did both. I wasn't seeing chat notifications on the desktop home so I made a wrong assumption!

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Faith Current's avatar

PS Oh, yeah, it might be green, which is a touch better than red. I have all my tech set to grayscale (highly recommend), so I just assumed it was red.

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Faith Current's avatar

You have clearly passed the marshmallow test, whereas I... do not. ЁЯШО

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Nicolas Nelson's avatar

If you really like reading on the Substack phone app (as I do) but canтАЩt resist the little тАЬUnreadтАЭ number in the corner of the icon (as I cannot), hereтАЩs another idea: put Substack in a folder. Put other distracting apps in that folder too, I have found no limit to the number of apps I can confine to one folder, and you only see 9 of them at a time when you page through that folder. This makes it easier to skim them fairly without always being drawn to the ones with тАЬunreadтАЭ badges, AND it hides all those badges until you are actively choosing to seek them out.

IG was on the third тАЬpageтАЭ in a folder on my home screen and I forgot about it for months! ;-) But when my daughter messages me on IG with grandbaby photos, itтАЩs easy to find.

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Faith Current's avatar

I don't have the app, (by choice for just that raeson). I just read on my browser. What I'm referring to is the notifications within the inbox/dashboard structure of substack and those can't be completely turned off.

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Jennifer's avatar

I have it off; I think I turned it off on the website app, from my laptop.

I do not see a red dot ever, nor do I receive notifications of any kind -- not emails or notes or anything else, from substack.

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Nicolas Nelson's avatar

(Ah, just checked and there is a badge on the folder, but it aggregates all the тАЬunreadтАЭ from all the apps in that folder. Sometimes the little circle is blank, sometimes it has a normal number (less than 10), sometimes it gets ridiculously high. But you know itтАЩs a total and you donтАЩt know how much is spam, how much is interesting but timesucking, and how much is photos of grandkids. Not knowing this defuses the urgency of it, the temptation. My brain screens it out so that in no longer notice itтАФ but only because it is attached to a FOLDER not a specific app.

I hope this helps!

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John McLachlan's avatar

Same for me. IтАЩve removed the Substack app and use the browser on my phone and iPad.

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