We can get rid of most of the notifications that reach us on our Android mobile by sliding them to one side or the other, but in some cases the notification does not go away even with bleach , either because it is a persistent notification that has been designed that way for a specific reason. or by mistake.
Notifications are there to notify you of something and we can usually remove them from the way when we have already read them, but sometimes there is no way to get rid of them . We tell you several methods so you can close those notifications that have gotten stuck.
close for good
In some cases the permanent notification can not be removed because the mobile needs your attention . For example, that you finish configuring your mobile. Some system notifications you can’t even forcefully hide.
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The good news is that the normal thing is that they disappear when you pay attention to them. That is, when you tap on it and complete the process that is being asked of you. It is also common for many of these notifications to include a button on the notification itself to close or hide it for good.
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Other times the notification is persistent – that is, it cannot be removed – but it does not last forever. The normal thing then is that some type of progress bar appears . This is the case, for example, of the “installation finishing” notification after a system update, or of the notification that appears while downloading a file to the mobile.
If the notification has a progress bar, it will normally disappear when the progress bar ends . If for some reason you don’t want to wait or the issue is stuck, then you can try the following solutions.
hide the notification
When a notification bothers you, you can easily hide it with a long touch on it. Then a menu should appear to hide this type of notifications. Doing so will remove the notification and you will never see a notification of the same type again.
If you only wanted to hide that particular notification – for example, because it was stuck – but not future ones, then you can do the same thing again and go to the notification settings of that app and turn on notifications for that type again .
Force close the app
A classic solution that usually gets you out of bugs with notifications not going away is to force close the app , which also kills all notifications that the app currently has active.
You can do this in several ways , one of the quickest being to do a long tap on its icon to access the app’s settings. You will then see the option to Force stop , which will normally end the notification that bothers you, although it could return if the app is reactivated and has some type of error.
