The developers of the social network Vkontakte made sure that users receive notifications about any change that occurs in their account. In this regard, you can hear a characteristic sound when we receive messages or someone likes our posts or photos. We receive letters by mail if someone wants to be added to us as a friend or if it’s someone’s birthday.
Some people like it, but others may be infuriated. In this regard, I decided to write this article so that you can learn how to turn off some notifications and not listen to sounds coming from your phone or laptop at night.
How to turn off VKontakte notifications in the full version
Let's go to our page. Click on the top menu in the right corner and select “Settings” from the drop-down list:
A new menu appears on the right side, in which we need to click on the “Alerts” item:
Now the settings window has opened. Let's look at the first section. These are “Site Alerts”.
Here we have types. If we just want to turn off the sound of notifications, then remove the checkbox next to the “Enable sound notifications” item. If you want to turn everything off completely, then, naturally, we remove all the birds.
There are also "event types". If, for example, you want not to be disturbed by the sounds that are made after someone has liked your next photo, then simply remove the bird next to the “Like” item.
Now go down and go to the “Email Alerts” section. We may need it if we want to avoid receiving messages about certain actions by email.
If we want to disable any item, then we remove the bird in front of it.
If you want to disable this function by mail altogether, then opposite the “Notification frequency” item, select “Never notify”:
Disable notifications in the mobile application on your tablet or phone
Launch the application and in the left menu click on the “Gear” icon, which in our case means “Settings”
At the next stage, in the settings, click on the “Notifications” section:
All types of notifications are loaded. To disable some of them, simply move the slider to the left. If, for example, you are annoyed by message notifications in a conversation, then click on the “Messages in conversations” item:
Move the slider to the left opposite notifications, and we will no longer receive notifications about new messages in conversations.
By the way, if you don’t know how to create VKontakte conversations, you can follow the link and read.
Greetings!
In this detailed step-by-step instructions, with photos, we will show you how to enable and configure SMS notifications about the receipt of personal messages on the VKontakte social network.
Using these instructions, you can easily enable and configure SMS notifications: set the frequency of notifications, set the time when SMS messages should not disturb you. You can also specify specific people or a group of users at once, when receiving messages from whom you will not receive an SMS notification.
Enable and configure SMS notifications from the social network VKontakte
While on the VKontakte website, click on the menu in the upper right corner. In the list that appears, select Settings.
On the page that appears, click on the item Alerts. In this block, among other things, SMS notification is enabled and configured. The service is provided completely free of charge.
To enable, check the box Receive SMS alerts and press the key Save.
If you enable SMS notification for the first time, a confirmation window should appear.
You need to press a button to get the code. As a result of this, you will receive an SMS on your phone with a code that you must enter in the form. confirmation code and press the button Send code.
Ready. SMS notification of receipt of personal messages on the VKontakte social network is enabled.
If you wish, you can also specify the frequency of notifications and limit the sending time.
And by clicking on the link that is opposite the option Notify about messages, you can specify specific people or create a list of users, when receiving messages from whom you will not receive an SMS notification.
At this point, setting up alerts via SMS from the VKontakte website can be considered complete.
If you have any questions, you can ask them in the comments.
It goes without saying that every modern person has an account on some social network and a mobile phone.
At the same time, it is very convenient to connect these things into a single chain in order to receive VK SMS alerts directly to your mobile device while on the road, on vacation or at work.
Using the SMS notification function, you can monitor incoming messages on the VK user profile, and also (for an additional fee) respond to incoming messages using return SMS.
This is certainly very convenient in a situation where there is no way to connect to the Internet, when only mobile communications are available.
SMS informing VK (notification via SMS) is an excellent and free way to constantly stay in touch, tracking account news, viewing incoming messages from friends and family anywhere in the world where mobile communications are available, even without access to the Internet.
SMS notification VK - this will be the topic of the next article on the site, because not every reader is able to independently configure this option in the VK user’s personal account. And it is for such people that the following information will be useful.
Setting up SMS notification for VK
1. First, log into your own account in Contact using secret data - Login to enter the system and Password.
2. Go to the “My Settings” section and go to the “Alerts” tab
3. Here we go down to the second sub-item – the “Notification via SMS” section and carefully study the available settings options. Here we check the box next to “Receive SMS alerts” and set the frequency of alerts.
(in the screenshot the “never notify” frequency is selected, but you will have to select some other option)
Note: if the reader wants SMS notifications immediately after new messages arrive, the optimal frequency would be the “Always notify” option. Otherwise, SMS messages will arrive much less frequently (once a week, a month, etc.).
By the way, SMS notifications are available only to users who have linked their phones to their personal VK pages!!!
If your phone number is not yet linked to your account page, we recommend starting the procedure by solving this problem, and only then setting up an SMS alert.
3. We set the time interval when we want to receive VK notifications, so that annoying SMS do not arrive on the phone during our night sleep, for example)))
4. The last step will be confirmation of your actions (changes) via SMS, which will be sent to the mobile phone number linked to the page.
Everything is simple here - the VK system will send you a message with a secret code, which you must enter in the empty field of the window and click “Save”.
5. You can find out how to respond to received notifications so that the answers reach your friends and comrades here on the VK website by following the corresponding link “More about SMS replies”.
We will not dwell on this option, because... the options can be very diverse, which does not fit well into the typical standard instructions.
We only note that such responses via SMS to VK alerts are paid, their cost depends on your mobile plan, tariff, as well as a host of other options and nuances. If necessary, the reader can independently study and use this opportunity.
In addition, any parameters you enter can be easily edited and edited later.
To put it simply, there is no need to be afraid of mistakes, because... all of them can be corrected in the future by optimally setting up notification of personal VK messages via SMS. Having received an SMS notification of incoming messages, you will always know when the expected message has been received and that your opponent is waiting for a return response.
Everything is simple and as convenient as possible!
Use it for your health and pleasure!
The notification panel is an integral part of any operating system. Android OS is no exception. These notifications display all incoming events for the device owner, which also include reminders to download or update programs. Among the huge number of such messages, it is very difficult to track and see what is really important to you. Therefore, to keep the notification panel clean, you need to know how to disable notifications on Android.
Notification of incoming events on the Android operating system
Setting alerts on and off has become easier since the release of Android 4.1. Now the user just needs to go to the “Settings” menu, select “Applications” (or “Application Manager”) and the “All” tab. In the list that appears, go to the programs or games whose pop-up windows you want to get rid of. To do this, tap on the selected application and uncheck the “Enable notifications” item, after which the system will display a window where you will need to confirm your choice. But this technique and the operation of the notification screen have changed quite a bit with the fifth system update.
In general, I made a significant number of changes to the system. This also affected the notification panel. It has become more flexible, customizable and also convenient. Let's see what innovations the new version has brought us and how to work with them.
Lock screen
With the arrival of the update, users noticed that all notifications were displayed on the Android lock screen. We will not talk about the convenience of this opportunity. But we’ll tell you what manipulations you can now perform:
- If you double-click on the window with incoming information, the corresponding application will open.
- To remove an unread message, just swipe in any direction.
- Pull down the alert window and it will give you a more expanded version, displaying additional information and features.
- Holding your finger on the window for a long time will give you the opportunity to open a context menu with options.
Now these buttons let you do more than just zoom in or out. Completely new options and features have been added to this menu, which will undoubtedly be useful to any user. They allow you to switch between alert modes:
- “Do not disturb” - all incoming reminders and messages will be silent.
- “Important” - you will receive only important messages from programs, the list of which can be adjusted. In general, when you turn it on, you will see a settings tab. In them you can change the operating time of the mode. Moreover, there is a special tab that allows you to configure this mode with maximum flexibility.
- “Everything” is the standard operation of the device.
To fine-tune the information windows, just go to the section specially designated for this. It is located in the Settings menu of your device. In it you can, for example, remove notifications on, open the possibility of notification for programs, and change the list of blocked applications. Another very interesting feature is that in the menu of a separate application you can optionally select the command:
- Do not show notifications from this application, thereby completely getting rid of the program's notifications.
- Or show them at the top of the list, including when only important notifications are allowed.
There are enough settings in the notification panel. It's worth paying some attention to them.
Now you have seen how many opportunities it has opened up for users who have learned to customize notifications “for themselves.” And if there is an unread message, you know how to remove it.
How to receive VKontakte notifications via SMS for free
It is convenient to receive notifications via SMS from VK, but for some time now mobile operators have begun to charge money. For example, my MegaFon number requires 3 rubles per day (the so-called “SMS notifications on social networks” service). The amount, of course, is small, but I don’t like to spend money just like that, especially since sometimes I may not receive VKontakte messages for weeks.
And it’s interesting to bypass the system, don’t you think? Moreover, it is very simple: we will use the fact that VK sends an email when new messages arrive - and we will redirect these emails to the phone. So, how easy and free it is to receive SMS via email.
Instructions
How does it all work? It’s just that when VKontakte sends you a letter by email, it is automatically duplicated in SMS. You can receive a maximum of 5 messages per day for free. SMS do not arrive immediately - after about half an hour, they write something to you on a social network.
The instructions work not only for VKontakte, you can also receive free notifications via SMS when you receive letters on Yandex, Mail RU, Gmail or any other mailbox. For example, you don’t want to change your VKontakte email, you have Yandex. No problem: set up a rule for forwarding incoming mail (Settings -> Rules for processing incoming mail):
The author of this material is I, Yuri Pakholkov. I provide services for writing programs in Java, C++, C# (and also consulting on them) and creating websites. I work with sites on CMS OpenCart, WordPress, ModX and self-written ones. In addition, I work directly with JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML - that is, I can improve your website or help with web programming.
