SmartWatches can keep our generation more connected in real-time than any generation previously, but that blessing can quickly degenerate into a curse if you don’t do something about those dime-a-dozen notifications from the installed apps on your phone. An intrusive or overbearing app can make your Android Wear experience a pestilence, whether it means to or not, but thankfully, there is something you can do about it. Thankfully though, with Android Wear, you can add certain apps to a ‘blacklist’ if you feel that their notifications hinder rather than help your productivity.
To keep an app from sending notifications, all you have to do is:
Alternatively you can also block an app from almost any of its notifications right there on your watch. Just swipe all the way over past the right-most cards and buttons — past Open on phone — and you'll find the option to Block app. This will add the app to the blacklist, where it will stay. If you accidentally click this — or wish to remove an app from the blacklist — you'll need to head to your phone to fix it.
Adding the errant app to the blacklist will keep it there till you go back over to your phone to change the setting. In the Android Wear companion app available on the play store, you can access the blacklist by clicking the “Gear” icon for settings in the top bar. The first item in the settings is the Block app notifications list, and from here, things are pretty simple. You can add an app using the floating action button at the bottom of the screen, and you can remove one from the list by tapping the X next to that item.
To keep an app from sending notifications, all you have to do is:
- Open the Android Wear app.
- Go to Settings.
- Choose "Block Apps."
- Scroll through to the app you want to block, and choose it.
Alternatively you can also block an app from almost any of its notifications right there on your watch. Just swipe all the way over past the right-most cards and buttons — past Open on phone — and you'll find the option to Block app. This will add the app to the blacklist, where it will stay. If you accidentally click this — or wish to remove an app from the blacklist — you'll need to head to your phone to fix it.
Adding the errant app to the blacklist will keep it there till you go back over to your phone to change the setting. In the Android Wear companion app available on the play store, you can access the blacklist by clicking the “Gear” icon for settings in the top bar. The first item in the settings is the Block app notifications list, and from here, things are pretty simple. You can add an app using the floating action button at the bottom of the screen, and you can remove one from the list by tapping the X next to that item.
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