How To Stop Snapchat Notifications (On Any Device)

Snapchat is designed to keep you engaged — and its notification system reflects that. Between snaps, chats, Stories, friend activity, and promotional alerts, the app can generate a steady stream of interruptions throughout the day. The good news is that you have several layers of control, from muting everything at once to fine-tuning exactly which alerts come through.

Here's how each option works, and what to consider when deciding which approach fits your situation.

Understanding Where Snapchat Notifications Come From

Before diving into settings, it helps to know that Snapchat notifications operate on two separate levels:

1. In-app notification settings — controlled inside Snapchat itself
2. System-level notification settings — controlled through your phone's OS (iOS or Android)

Both layers need to match your preferences. You can silence everything inside Snapchat, but if your phone's system settings still allow Snapchat to push alerts, some notifications may still appear. Managing both gives you the most reliable result.

How To Turn Off Snapchat Notifications on iPhone (iOS)

Option 1: Via iPhone System Settings

1. Open Settings on your iPhone
2. Scroll down and tap Snapchat
3. Tap Notifications
4. Toggle Allow Notifications off to block all Snapchat alerts

From this same screen, you can also take a more selective approach — keeping notifications enabled but turning off Lock Screen, Notification Center, or Banners individually, or silencing sounds and badges without blocking the notifications entirely.

Option 2: Via Snapchat's In-App Settings

1. Open Snapchat and tap your profile icon (top left)
2. Tap the gear icon to open Settings
3. Scroll to Notifications
4. From here, toggle off specific notification types — including snaps, chats, Stories, friend suggestions, and more

This is where granular control lives. If you want to keep chat alerts but stop seeing Story notifications, the in-app settings are the right place to make that adjustment.

How To Turn Off Snapchat Notifications on Android

Option 1: Via Android System Settings

The exact path varies slightly depending on your Android version and device manufacturer, but the general route is:

1. Open Settings
2. Go to Apps (or Apps & Notifications)
3. Find and tap Snapchat
4. Tap Notifications
5. Toggle off All Notifications, or manage by category

Android 13 and later introduced more granular notification permission controls, so you may see individual notification channels listed (chats, snaps, mentions, etc.) rather than a single on/off toggle.

Option 2: Via Snapchat In-App Settings

The same in-app path applies on Android:

Profile icon → Gear icon → Notifications

Toggle off whichever categories you want to silence.

Notification Types You Can Control Inside Snapchat 🔔

Promotional and system notifications are often overlooked — if you're mainly bothered by marketing pings rather than social alerts, disabling just that category may be enough.

Do Not Disturb vs. Notification Settings: What's the Difference?

Do Not Disturb (DND) on iOS and Android silences all alerts — including Snapchat — for a set period or schedule. It doesn't change your notification preferences permanently; it just suppresses them temporarily.

Notification settings, by contrast, make persistent changes. If you turn off Snapchat notifications in your system settings, they stay off until you change them back, regardless of DND status.

For people who only want quiet during certain hours, DND or Focus Modes (iOS) are worth exploring. For people who genuinely want Snapchat to stop alerting them altogether, adjusting the actual notification settings is more reliable.

Muting Individual Conversations

If your issue isn't with all Snapchat notifications but with a specific person or group chat, you don't need to touch global settings at all.

To mute a specific conversation:

• Press and hold the conversation in your chat list
• Select Chat Settings (or More on some versions)
• Choose Message Notifications and set to mute

This keeps all other Snapchat alerts intact while quieting one noisy thread. 🤫

Variables That Affect Which Approach Works Best

A few factors determine which combination of settings will actually solve the problem for you:

• How you use Snapchat — casual user vs. someone who relies on it for daily communication
• iOS vs. Android — the system settings path differs, and Android's notification channel system gives more granular control on newer OS versions
• Snapchat app version — in-app notification categories have expanded over time; older app versions may show fewer options
• Whether you share a device or account — muting at the system level affects all users of that device, while in-app settings are account-specific
• The type of notifications bothering you — social alerts, promotional messages, and system notifications all have separate controls

Someone who wants to go completely dark from Snapchat will approach this differently than someone who just wants to stop seeing Story updates while keeping chat alerts live — and both situations call for a different combination of the settings described above.

The right configuration depends on exactly how you're using the app and what you actually want to stop seeing.