Make Notifications Better On The Galaxy S25; Here's How To Tune One UI 7 Alerts

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Notification history and categories

These are the two most important settings for One UI 7 notifications, in my opinion. Notification history allows you to recall dismissed notifications, which tends to be useful if you’re like me and often swipe without reading in detail. A history log records all of the notifications you’ve received up to a certain point. The log will allow you to open those notifications as you would a fresh one, directing you to the app and alert in question.

Turn on notification history…

On your Galaxy phone, head to the settings.
Find and tap Notifications.
Tap Advanced settings.
Tap Notification history and turn it on.

Note: Unlike in other versions of Android, you can only find these dismissed notifications by navigating back to this page.

Notification categories in One UI 7 is another big function. By default, the OS doesn’t separate alerts into categories like stock Android does. Instead, it lumps them altogether from the same app. The problem this presents is that if you were to turn off notifications for an app, you have no choice but to disable all alerts.

On the other hand with notification categories turned on for your Galaxy phone, you can go into the settings and turn off notifications from an app based on what type of alert it was. For instance, if you’re getting pesky suggestion alerts from Twitter/X, you can turn those off while still receiving DMs or other important alerts.

Turn on notification categories…

On your Galaxy phone, head to the settings.
Find and tap Notifications.
Tap Advanced settings.
Enable Manage notification categories for each app.
To look at categories, go back to Notifications and hit App notifications.
Tap any app to look through categories.

Notification snoozing

The snooze function is another big one that gets overlooked all too often. It’s one of those inconsequential additions that would go unnoticed even if it were enabled by default.

In essence, it does exactly what it sounds like by dismissing notifications temporarily. You can hit the snooze icon to set them aside for a while. This is incredibly handy for incoming messages that I can’t get to at the moment or emails I need to reply to, even if Gmail has its own snooze function.

In most cases, notifications need to be expanded for the snooze button to appear. You can choose between 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours.

Turn on notification snoozing…

On your Galaxy phone, head to the settings.
Find and tap Notifications.
Tap Advanced settings.
Enable Show snooze button.

Filtering One UI notifications

The last big adjustment users can make to their Galaxy phone is filtered notifications. One UI 7 will differentiate notifications based on a few criteria.

Is the notification old?
Is the notification for background activity?
Is the notification minimized?

Based on these, you can have your Galaxy phone filter these alerts out. Filtered notifications don’t just disappear. Instead, they get clumped together into a group at the bottom of the notification shade. This is a further way to ensure you’re only seeing notifications that are vital or a priority. Like any other option, this is simply preference.

Turn on notification filtering…

On your Galaxy phone, head to the settings.
Find and tap Notifications.
Tap Advanced settings.
Tap Filter notifications.
Choose what to filter.

On any given modern Galaxy phone, these settings set a good foundation for notifications. If managed, they don’t have to be overwhelming or unorganized, and the tools above will surely make the experience better.