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Solve Android Notification Not Showing


Android phones are one of the most talked-about phones in the market. As they are a user-friendly devices, we see many people preferably purchase androids for their daily use. Not just only for the different features they contain in them but also for how easily any app in the play store supports androids. Thereby, we can literally solve or adjust any problems we see in the setup with no complications. Today, we are going to focus on one such problem many go through in their android smartphones.


Normally, when we use a smartphone, we will always want it to show up the important notifications. Every android phones come with the option of notification popup ability manually. But there are occasions where we sometimes miss a lot of important emails, messages or even missed calls from important people. When looking at how we missed it, we will see that we got no such notifications. Literally, the notifications have not popped up and you will not be able to know about it until you open up the app to see messages and calls. This is a very casual problem most of the android users face.

As today most of the generation do their works online or by using their PC, smartphones or tab. Such devices are very important to get notified of messages. So missing out on such notification can really cause big problems. The notification not showing problem can be caused due to several minor reasons like bugs and glitches present in the operating system but as we are android users, there are definitely ways and solutions for this problem too. Anyone can easily solve the notification not showing a problem in very little time. There are a few methods to get this done, so come let's take a look at how to solve this very problem.


Methods to Solve Notification Not Showing Issue

Check the app notification: If you notice that you don't get notification only from some particular apps and the other apps are working perfectly, then you have to check on the setting to see if you have granted the permission for the app to access the notification.

In that case, if the notification access is not provided then no notifications will pop up.





You can check for this by clicking on the 'Settings' > 'Apps' and there you have to select the app from which you aren't receiving any notifications. Under the particular app, tap on the 'notification' > 'enable notification'.  Now you will receive the notifications.


Restarting the device: Restarting your mobile is one of the initial and the basic step to initiate when you face such problems of notification not showing. When you do restart the phone, it will easily terminate all the background processes that might be working as a hindrance to the app to send notifications. In most of the case, simply restarting the android ones will stop all the problems and give you a clear out but in case if the problem still exists then follow the next step.

Turn off power saving mode: If you have turned on the power saving mode to save battery life from draining in the android, then better turn it off. Power saving mode will not stop any notifications but it do disable the sync and internet connection. Thereby you have to disable the 'adaptive battery' option from the stock android. To do so, you have to go to the 'settings' >'Battery'.  Then to stop the battery optimization, you have to go to the 'settings' > 'Apps and notifications' > '(The particular app)' > 'advanced' > 'battery optimization'.

Disable do not disturb option: If you still do not get the notifications, then you have to check on the 'Do not disturb' option. If this is turned on or enabled, then you will not receive any notifications. You can go to the 'settings' > 'sounds and notifications'  and search for the 'Do not disturb' option and disable it if its enabled.

Enabling background data: If in your android phone you have disabled background data, then that can also be a reason for the notifications for not showing up. You can enabled the background data by going to the 'Settings' > 'apps' > '(select the particular app)' > 'Data usage' > 'enable data usage' and then you might get the notifications thereafter.

That's it, now we have checked on a few methods on how to solve the notifications not showing problem. Thereby now you might have finally got a way to solve the issue. You can try these method as mentioned above to see what has caused the problem in your android. All the solutions provided above are simple and easy to progress and get a result. I hope this guide would have given you the right solution.