How to disable “facebook live” notifications
By Christopher Ramos
Good news, everyone! Facebook has made it easier than ever to broadcast what you’re doing, live. Bad news, everyone! Facebook has made it easier than ever to broadcast what you’re doing, live. And the thing about live video is that it’s pointless if nobody’s watching. So Facebook makes sure that you get a notification every damn time one of your friends (or a page that you follow) goes live.
Sometimes that’s great! Especially when it’s the Android Central Facebook page that’s doing the streaming, right?
Other times, it’s downright awful. Holidays such as the Fourth of July here in the U.S. are one of those times. We’ve all seen fireworks before. Many of us will be out watching them, live. (Like, in-person.) So the last thing we need is 200 notifications of other people broadcasting their own fireworks experiences over relatively low resolution.
(Note that this only works from the full Facebook site, not m.facebook.com (which your phone will try to send you to), or from within the Facebook app.)
Here’s how to to turn off Facebook Live notifications:
- Go to your Facebook settings. Drill down to Settings>Notifications>On Facebook.
- Now choose “Edit.” (Note: This link should take you directly.)
- Toggle “Live Videos” to OFF.
Note that this only works from the full Facebook site, not m.facebook.com (which your phone will try to send you to), or from within the Facebook app.
Alternatively, if you just want to kill Facebook Live notifications from a single person or page, you can do so from within the notifications themselves. Just long-press on the person you want to squelch, and then choose whether to dismiss that single notification, or to turn off all notifications of live videos from that person.
Unless you absolutely hate any use of Facebook Live, we might suggest not turning off these notifications permanently. While they might get annoying when you’ve got groups of friends all showing the same thing (and the same thing that you yourself might be doing), you might well miss something interesting other times.
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Tired of getting too many notifications for Facebook Live posts on your iPhone? You can disable Facebook Live notifications, but turning them off can’t be done on iPhone, except individually. Facebook Live allows users to record what’s going on as it happens. Currently, Facebook sends you a notification whenever someone you’re friends with or someone you follow begins recording live. This has resulted in a lot of users being inundated with Live notifications, leaving us wondering how to stop the Facebook Live notifications from alerting us throughout the day. You can do this easily from your computer, since the desktop version of Facebook is needed. We’ll also go over how to turn off all Facebook notifications on your iPhone, from your iPhone. Here’s how to turn off Facebook Live notifications.
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How to Disable Facebook Live Notifications
If you want to stop all Facebook Live notifications, you’ll need to do so from your computer using the desktop version of Facebook. The setting we need to change in order to turn off Facebook Live notifications can only be accessed from the desktop version. Unfortunately, the mobile Facebook app for iPhone doesn’t give you a way to turn off all Live notifications for Facebook. To disable all Facebook Live notifications:
Open Facebook on your computer.
Tap the arrow on the far right of the top blue navigation bar.
Select Settings from the drop down list.
Choose Notifications in the left column of the Settings page.
Click Edit next to On Facebook.
Find Live Videos in the list. Tap the button that says On and select All Off.
How to Turn Off All Facebook Notifications on iPhone
Perhaps you’re fine with getting Live notifications within Facebook, but you’re tired of your iPhone constantly telling you when someone has gone Live on Facebook or everytime someone likes your photo or comments on a status you made—well, you can easily turn off all Facebook notifications on your iPhone. This means nothing will change within the Facebook app, but you won’t be notified on your iPhone every time something happens on Facebook. This is good practice if you’re trying to spend less time in Facebook. Remember, you’ll still get Facebook Live notifications within the Facebook app and online. You just won’t be interrupted on your iPhone with this tip. To turn off all Facebook notifications on iPhone:
From your iPhone, open the Settings app.
Select Facebook from the list.
You can customize how you receive Facebook notifications on your iPhone or toggle off notifications completely by turning off Allow Notifications at the top.
Hopefully, Facebook will make it easy to disable Facebook Live notifications from your iPhone in the future. In the meantime, use these two tips to make sure Facebook Live notifications aren’t constantly alerting you of content you don’t want to watch.
Don’t want to disable this globally? Perhaps there’s a certain page you follow that uses Facebook Live often, and you’d like to turn off notifications just for them. Thankfully, Facebook allows you to do this too.
Navigate to the Facebook page that you want to turn off notifications for. Mouse over the Following button and you’ll see some options. Under Notifications, select All Off. Once you’ve done this, you won’t see any notifications from the page, even if it goes live.
How to Turn Off Live Notifications on Facebook for Android
You can also disable Facebook Live notifications on your Android device. Note that no matter where you make this change, it will apply to your account. Thus, you don’t need to disable these notifications again on your mobile device after doing so on your desktop.
From the Facebook app, tap the Menu icon on the top bar, represented by three lines. Here, scroll down and expand the Settings & Privacy section and tap Settings.
On the resulting page, scroll all of the way down to the Notifications section. Tap the Notification Settings block to enter those options. Like on desktop, you’ll find a setting for Video here. Tap that, then disable the Allow Notifications on Facebook slider to turn off Facebook Live notifications.
To disable Facebook Live notifications only from a particular page, first visit it. Tap the three-dot button to access an additional menu, then tap the Following text to access notification settings. Here, choose Edit Notifications Settings and choose the Off option.
How to Turn Off Live Notifications for Facebook on iPhone
The process for turning off Facebook Live notification on the Facebook for iOS app is essentially identical to the Android instructions above.
Tap the three-line Menu button, navigate to Settings & Privacy > Settings, and scroll down to Notification settings. In this section, select Video and turn off the Allow Notifications on Facebook slider within.
The process for turning off notifications for a specific page is also the same as it is on Android. Visit a page, tap the three-dot button, and hit Following. On this menu, choose Edit Notifications Settings and pick Off to disable all notifications from that page.
How to Get Facebook Live Notifications Just for One Person
Maybe you don’t want to see Facebook Live notifications in most cases, but would like to make an exception for one or two important friends. In that case, you should consider adding them to your Close Friends list.
This is a special friends group, because you’ll receive notifications every time someone in your Close Friends posts on Facebook. This helps you never miss what they share, including live video.
To add someone to your Close Friends, visit their Facebook profile. Mouse over the Friends button on their cover photo, then check the Close Friends entry to add them.
If you don’t want to add the person to Close Friends (perhaps you use this group for sharing content with specific people), you can check the Get Notifications box instead. Doing so will send you a notification every time they post something.
Adding someone to Close Friends on mobile takes an additional step, though it works the same on Android and iPhone. Visit a friend’s page, then tap the Friends button. On the resulting menu, tap Edit Friend List. Here, you can select the groups that you want to include this friend in.
You should see Close Friends at the top. There’s no Get Notifications option on mobile, so if you want to use this option, you’ll need to do it through Facebook on your desktop or laptop.
Getting Notifications for Pages
Want to get notifications every time a Page posts something? Visit it and mouse over the Following text. Next to Notifications, click on the pencil icon. Here, you can change the default Highlights option to Standard. Doing this sends you a notification every time the page posts an update, including Facebook Live.
Depending on how much a particular page shares content, this could be more annoying than useful if you only care about Facebook Live notifications. But thankfully, it’s limited to five notifications per day, so it won’t bombard your notification box.
Turn Off Facebook Live Notifications and Browse Peacefully
Now, you know how to silence Facebook Live alerts on any platform. With a bit of tweaking, you’ll no longer get interrupted to see that your friends are streaming.
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There are some people who don’t like to get notified of everything from their Facebook accounts, and there are certainly those that do not want to be continuously notified whenever someone from their friends list initiates a Facebook Live moment. The feature was recently introduced as a live video streaming function, so that you can broadcast to everyone in your friends list, or even to the entire social network, as to what you’re currently doing. By default, the feature will send you notifications as to whenever your friends are taking advantage of this new feature. Therefore, you would have notifications that you do not want. But worry not, as there is a way to disable it and still keep your normal array of notifications being sent to you.
Disabling Facebook Live Notifications
Step 1 – Just like with other “annoyances” from the social networking portal, turning off the Facebook Live notifications is neatly tucked away. To get to that, you would have to, of course, log into your Facebook account. Once you’ve signed in properly, you can then click on the arrow that’s located at the upper right corner of the top navigation bar. Clicking on it will produce a drop-down menu. Once it does, click on the “Settings” menu option.
Step 2 – You will then be brought to a new page, and in here, look for the “Notifications” menu item located at the left sidebar and click on it. You will now be brought to the Notifications portion of the Settings menu once you do. In here, click on the “Edit” link that’s next to the “On Facebook” portion at the top of the list. By default, it will be set to “All notifications, all sounds on.” You can then change that to just turn off the notifications from Facebook Live.
Step 3 – Once you click on the Edit button, you will be presented with a rather lengthy notifications menu. Once you see the “Live Videos” option, change the default setting (which is turned On) to “All Off.” Do take note that this change is immediate. Therefore, and from this point onward, you will no longer receive notifications whenever someone within your friends list, or a page that you’ve Liked, is using the live video streaming feature of Facebook.
Facebook Live may be a neat feature for a lot of people to use, especially for those who utilize Facebook pages to let administrators communicate with their fan-base in a more personal manner, however, not everyone likes the idea of getting notifications every time someone goes live.
Facebook’s live videos are great. They’re a fun way to interact with your friends (or followers) live. Also, they usually work flawlessly. However, if you follow a lot of pages, or people that go live, the notifications can get quite annoying. After all, no one wants to have their notifications pane full to the brim with “xyz is live!” notifications. So, if you’re looking for a way to turn these off, you’re in luck. In this article, I will tell you how you can turn off Facebook Live notifications. These methods will stop the notifications on both the web, and the iPhone, and Android Facebook apps.
Turn Off Facebook Live Notifications: Method 1
1. On your web browser, visit Facebook, and click on the Notifications icon.
2. Here, click on “Settings”.
3. Scroll down, and you’ll see “Live Videos”. Click on the drop down menu next to it, and select “Turn all Off”.
This will turn off all notifications about Facebook Live. So, the next time someone goes Live on Facebook, you’ll not receive a notification about it.
Turn Off Facebook Live Notifications: Method 2
Another way of getting to the Facebook notification settings is by clicking on the “arrow” next to the icon for “Privacy Settings”. Here, click on “Settings”.
Then, go to “Notifications” from the side bar.
Click on “On Facebook”.
Here, you can scroll down, and turn off notifications for Facebook Live.
Note : You don’t need to change any settings in your Android, or iPhone Facebook apps. Following the steps above will disable the Facebook Live notifications on the web, as well as the mobile apps, on both Android and iPhone.
Never Be Plagued By Facebook Live Notifications Again
You can use this method to turn off all notifications about Facebook Live. While it would be better if there was a way to do this on a per-person basis, this is all Facebook is giving to us, right now. So, the next time you get that Facebook Live notification, you can simply turn them off.
We would like to know your thoughts about Facebook Live. Do you think Facebook will allow users to turn off Live notifications for specific people/pages? Also, if you know of any other methods to turn these notifications off, do let us know in the comments section below.
Now ‘Facebook Live’ is available to all users. So, any user can now broadcast an event in realtime with their friends and followers. The only issue with this is its notification. When a user in your friend list goes live, it notifies you about this streaming. If multiple friends are using this in same time frame, you end up receiving the bunch of notifications you do not want.
Fortunately, there is a way to stop these notifications. If you do not want to get all the notifications when your Facebook friends goes live. Follow the steps given below.
How to Turn Off Facebook Live Notifications
Follow these steps:
Step 1: To turn off Facebook Live notifications, go to the settings page by clicking on the menu arrow at top right corner.
Step 2: In the settings page, select the ‘Notifications’ option at the left sidebar.
Step 3: In Notifications page, select ‘Edit’ in first options saying “On Facebook”.
Step 4: In the new page, find the section saying ‘Live Videos’. Select the drop down in front of it and select ‘All off’.
After this, it will stop all notification of Facebook Live.
Facebook live is a good feature to stream anything around you and share an even in realtime with friends. You should try it once.
If you have anything to ask, you can comment below.
Deepanker Verma is the founder of Techlomedia. He is a tech blogger, developer and gadget freak.
There are a million reasons to turn off Facebook Live notifications. Facebook currently sends alerts when someone you are friends with or follow on Facebook goes live. This can be annoying when you get interrupted for something you don’t care about and it is also scary and disturbing when people use Facebook Live to stream awful things.
By default when someone turns on Facebook Live, it sends a notification to all of their friends. You can disable this to stop annoying notifications when your friends go live. We’ll show you how to do that and what you need to know about Facebook live notifications and what you can do to limit Facebook Live videos in your stream.
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How to stop Facebook live notifications and as close as you can come to turning off Facebook live.
In addition to annoying Facebook Live notifications, there is a growing trend of violent Facebook Live videos that are disturbing to many users. While Facebook is generally good at censoring outright violent content in uploaded videos, it is much tougher to stop Live videos where violence takes place.
How to Turn Off Facebook Live Notifications
You can Turn off Facebook Live notifications in the Facebook settings. This only takes a minute to complete and it allows you to stop all Facebook Live notifications. This will work across all of your devices, but you need to do this on your computer or at least on the Facebook website.
Go to Facebook and then click on the little arrow in the upper right to see your Settings.
Click on Settings and then on Notifications.
Now, click on the edit next to On Facebook to change your Facebook Live Video notification settings.
On this screen, scroll down until you see Live Videos. Click where it says On and then set it to Off.
This turns off Facebook Live notifications everywhere. You can also choose to go with Suggestions Off. This would allow you to only get some Facebook Live notifications, but it isn’t clear what you will get.
This will limit the alerts you get when friends go Live. but you will still see Live videos in your feed when you are scrolling on Facebook on your computer or in the app.
How to Hide Violent Or Obscene Facebook Live Videos
There is no option to totally turn off Facebook Live videos. This is something that many users would love to see Facebook add, but the company has yet to offer and it’s unlikely that they will do it.
If you are scrolling through Facebook and see a live video, you can scroll past it quickly. You can also report or hid content you don’t want to see. Click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the post. Then click on Hide Post. You can also choose to hide all from a source or a person.
Another option is to turn Facebook Autoplay video options to Never Autoplay videos. If you are on your iPhone or Android, this will allow you to not automatically see videos playing in your stream. This is not on the desktop, unfortunately.
Go to Settings in the iPhone or Android Facebook app and then on Account Settings. Tap on Videos and Photos and then on Autoplay. Now click on Never AutoPlay Videos.
While this does not turn Facebook Live off totally, it will limit the horrible Facebook Live videos that you see from people sharing or streaming violence.
Facebook has recently added new cool feature, Facebook Live. This is just a quick and easy way to connect with the people worldwide and share with them anything live. The traditional way of sharing video was like- first shoot the video and then upload it to facebook. It was time-consuming and many of the users even thought not to upload the video but this feature made it easier to connect with people and share the moment in real-time (Live).It’s pointless and discouraging if we are going live and nobody is watching us. So, Facebook makes sure that you get a notification every time someone goes live. It can be your friends or the page that you follow.
Receiving notification from Facebook about live video is good for some people but sometime we just gets irritated by the receiving continuous notification about the live video. For example, We all have heard about the concerts. Many of us will go and watch them live but when we open the facebook, what we find- numbers of other people broadcasting their own live concert experiences. We don’t desire to watch that live video because we were also there enjoying the same moment.
Here’s How To Turn Off Facebook Live Notifications:
- First Log-in to your Facebook >> Go to your Facebook Settings
- Scroll down to Settings >>Notifications >>On Facebook.
- Now, Click on “Edit” option.
- Many other facebook setting option will come, choose Live Videos >> click on option to it’s right side.
- There you will find different options like (On, Suggestions Off, All Off)
- Click on OFF option to disable the feature. (You will no longer receive Live Video notifications)
[quote bcolor=”purple”] Note: This only works from the full Facebook site, not Facebook Mobile Site (m.facebook.com), or from within the Facebook app. [/quote]
There is another option for you. If you just want to dismiss Facebook Live notifications from a single person or page, you can easily do this in few seconds within the notifications themselves. You Just long-press on the person or the page you want to terminate, and then choose whether to kill that single notification, or to turn off all notifications.
Screenshot of Options after Long-pressing on the notification
I would recommend you not to turn off the Facebook Live notification unless you don’t like or never view the live video. Ya, I agree sometime it just gets irritated when you’ve got many of friends all showing the same thing (and the same thing that you yourself might be doing) but it’s not always. So, if you turn off the notification you will miss something interesting and beneficial.
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Facebook’s live video notifications can be quite annoying, especially since most of us don’t really care for them, unless there is something breaking going on. In this tutorial, we are going to be showing you how to disable Facebook Live notifications on both desktop and mobile (Android and iOS).
Disable Facebook Live on Desktop
- Click on the drop-down menu button, located in the top right-hand corner
- Click on Settings
- Find the Notifications tab on the left end of the screen
- In Notifications Settings, click edit on the ‘On Facebook’ option
- Click edit on the ‘Live Videos’ option and select ‘All Off’
Disable Facebook Live on Android and iOS
The process on the mobile apps is identical to the one on the desktop version of the platform.
- Tap on the hamburger menu located in the top right hand corner
- Swipe down until you find ‘Settings’ and tap on the option
- Swipe down until you find ‘Notifications Settings’ and tap on the option
- Select the ‘On Facebook’ option
- Tap on the ‘Live Videos’ option and select ‘All Off’
If you encounter any problems while trying out the above or have a recommendation to make, feel free to shoot a comment down below.
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