Samsung GalaxyTab S7+ Grrrr!
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Doofus

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34,485 posts

203 months

Thursday 25th November 2021
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I can't stop the bloody thing from displaying notifications on the lock screen. They all say "Contents Hidden", but I don't want them at all.

I've turned off everything I'm supposed to turn off but they won't stop appearing.

Any ideas?

Super Sonic

14,549 posts

84 months

Thursday 25th November 2021
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Probably settings - notifications or display. You should be able to swipe them off the screen.

Doofus

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Thursday 25th November 2021
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Super Sonic said:
Probably settings - notifications or display. You should be able to swipe them off the screen.
I can, but I don't want them there at all. There are two settings, and both are off.

Corso Marche

1,901 posts

231 months

Thursday 25th November 2021
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I've a similar tablet. Samsung settings are still an incoherent mess on a good day!

Rather than Settings>Notifications or Settings>Display head to Settings>Lock Screen and review your options there.
There's a toggle on the switchable options, but what's less obvious is if you tap on the text of the option there's another sub-settings menu with further controls.

Doofus

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Friday 26th November 2021
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Corso Marche said:
I've a similar tablet. Samsung settings are still an incoherent mess on a good day!

Rather than Settings>Notifications or Settings>Display head to Settings>Lock Screen and review your options there.
There's a toggle on the switchable options, but what's less obvious is if you tap on the text of the option there's another sub-settings menu with further controls.
Already off. frown


Corso Marche

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231 months

Friday 26th November 2021
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Are you running an up to date version of the OS?
I'm on One UI 3.1 from this year, on the October 2021 security patch (economy spec Tab A).

My settings are quite different. Not only can I toggle them, but tapping the text side of the menu option opens a sub menu with further controls.

As below;


You've definitely set things how you want in all 3 areas? Notifications + Display + Lock Screen, as opposed to maybe just 2?

For me the Oct 2021 update finally placed default AOSP controls back in the Quick Toggles which Samsung had buried in menus within Digital Wellbeing. I can't fathom why they remove simple basic options and bury them somewhere else, and scatter simple settings across multiple different areas in the Settings menu. They've improved through the years, but there's still too much incoherence and a scatter gun approach in how they do stuff.

Edited by Corso Marche on Friday 26th November 10:04

Doofus

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Friday 26th November 2021
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Corso Marche said:
Are you running an up to date version of the OS?
I'm on One UI 3.1 from this year, on the October 2021 security patch (economy spec Tab A).

My settings are quite different. Not only can I toggle them, but tapping the text side of the menu option opens a sub menu with further controls.

As below;


You've definitely set things how you want in all 3 areas? Notifications + Display + Lock Screen, as opposed to maybe just 2?
The screenshot I posted is the result of tapping on "notifications", the text, not the swtich.

Corso Marche

1,901 posts

231 months

Friday 26th November 2021
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Toggle 'Details' to 'Icons Only' to see if it improves it sufficiently for you.

Your issue is the same as mine. They've added granular control, scattered those controls around the place, and in the process removed full control i.e. the simplest on/off options! But at least I saw signs with the Oct update they were rectifying that, albeit the guts of 3 years after it was standard in AOSP.

sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

280 months

Friday 26th November 2021
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Can you turn off notifications in the app settings?

Doofus

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Friday 26th November 2021
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sgrimshaw said:
Can you turn off notifications in the app settings?
I have done. That's the problem.

Doofus

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Friday 26th November 2021
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sgrimshaw said:
Can you turn off notifications in the app settings?
I have done. That's the problem.

And, to an earlier question, I'm on 3.1

sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

280 months

Friday 26th November 2021
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Doofus said:
sgrimshaw said:
Can you turn off notifications in the app settings?
I have done. That's the problem.
At individual app level ?

Doofus

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Friday 26th November 2021
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I suspect it's coming from Google. The lock screen notifications are calendar appointments. So I've gone into the calendar app, and turned off alerts from there.

We'll see what happens....