How to Clear Notification on Facebook App
How to Clear All Facebook Notifications
You should remove your unread alerts as soon as you log into Facebook and find a mountain of them there. The red dot representing unread alerts vanishes when you click the bell icon.
You haven’t actually resolved the issue, though. When you receive a new alert, the alerts will automatically reappear if you don’t clear them. You must mark every notice on Facebook as read in order to permanently delete it.
Strangely, the smartphone app does not allow you to delete unread alerts without first clicking on each one. Instead, you must carry out the procedure using the web application.
Follow the instructions below to mark all of your Facebook alerts as read:
- Head to Facebook.com and log into your account.
- Click on the Notifications icon in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click on the three horizontal dots.
- Select Mark all as read.
How to Turn Off Facebook Notifications
The following two sections should have made it easier for you to manage your current Facebook notifications. But just half of the battle is won there. In the future, you must take care to avoid being bothered by all of that notification spam; else, you’ll find yourself right back where you started.
There are two approaches to the issue. As they come in, you can choose to disable notifications for a specific category of alerts, or you can use Facebook’s Settings menu to take a more comprehensive approach.
How to Turn Off Facebook Notifications as They Arrive
The procedure for deleting Facebook notifications is the same as the procedure for disabling Facebook notifications as they come in.
To understand more about the procedure via the online app, follow these steps:
- Type Facebook.com into your browser and log into your account.
- Click on the Notifications icon in the upper right-hand corner.
- Find a notification that you want to turn off.
- Click on the three dots.
- Select Turn off notifications of this type (the exact wording may change depending on the type of notification).
(Note: You will also have the option to turn off all notifications from this page if you are turning off notifications from a website.)
By launching the app, tapping on the Notifications tab, and choosing the three dots next to the relevant notice, smartphone users can view the same list of possibilities.