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<ol>
<li>Click on your <b>profile picture or name initials</b> to get to the settings.</li>
<li>Click on the <b>Notifications</b> field.</li>
<li>Click on the switch to enable or disable the notifications.</li>
<li>Click on the switch to enable or disable the notifications for your whole account.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="mobile" label="Mobile">
<ol>
<li>Click on your <b>profile picture or name initials</b> to get to the settings.</li>
<li>Click on the <b>Notifications</b> field.</li>
<li>Click on the switch to enable or disable the notifications.</li>
<li>Click on the switch to enable or disable the notifications for your whole account.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
</Tabs>

### Deactivate notifications for a specific device

To deactivate notifications for a specific device, you have to adjust the device or browser tab settings.

<Tabs>
<TabItem value="web" label="Web" default>
<ol>
<li>Click on the settings icon on the left side of your browsers address bar.</li>
<li>Look for <b>Notifications</b> or similar text.</li>
<li>Remove the notification permission. Depending on your browser, this might be an <b>X</b>-button or a toggle.</li>
<li>If you want to turn off the sound, do a right click on your browser tab (in the tab bar where you can see the Famedly logo) with the app and select <b>Mute tab</b> or <b>Mute Site</b> or similar. Please note that this will also mute media like voice messages you might want to play.</li>
<li>To unmute, just click on the crossed-out speaker icon that appears on the tab on the logo.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="desktop" label="Desktop" default>
<ol>
<li>If you installed the app through your browser, you can access the settings through a click on the <b>⁝</b> icon in the title bar of the app window.</li>
<li>Click on <b>App info</b>.</li>
<li>Look for the entry <b>Notifications</b>.</li>
<li>Deactivate the toggle through a click on <b>Notifications</b>.</li>
<li>If you also want to turn off sound for the notifications, you need to follow the following steps:</li>
<li>Click on the <b>⁝</b> icon in the windows title bar to open the settings menu.</li>
<li>Click on <b>App info</b>.</li>
<li>There click on <b>Settings</b>.</li>
<li>Click on <b>More settings and permissions</b> at the bottom of the menu in the browser window that just opened.</li>
<li>Look for the <b>Sound</b> option and select <b>Mute</b> from the dropdown menu. Please note that this will also mute media like voice messages you might want to play.</li>
<li>To unmute the app again, redo the last steps and select <b>Automatic (Standard)</b> instead of <b>Mute</b> from the dropdown menu.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="android" label="Android">
<ol>
<li>Do a long press on the app icon on your homescreen.</li>
<li>Tap on the <b>🛈</b> icon (might also have a text <b>App info</b> or similar) to open app specific OS settings.</li>
<li>Tap <b>Notifications</b>.</li>
<li>There you will see different options for muting the notifications or completely turning them off.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="ios" label="iOS">
<ol>
<li>Open your phone settings.</li>
<li>Search for <b>Famedly</b> and tap on the entry. You can use the settings search or just scroll to the bottom to find the Famedly entry.</li>
<li>Tap on <b>Notifications</b>.</li>
<li>There you will have options for turning off notifications for the app completely or just sound or badges and some options for the banner.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
</Tabs>

### Use your operating systems do not disturb mode

Another option to prevent notifications from popping up temporarily is to use your systems do not disturb mode.
Depending on your operating system you can just turn off the notification banner or even set specific time schedules to activate the do not disturb mode.
On many devices you can also set exceptions for specific apps or persons (depending on the specific OS).

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<TabItem value="windows" label="Windows" default>
<ol>
<li>On Windows 11 the do not disturb mode is set to turn on on duplicating screen, when playing a game or using an app in full screen mode by default so if you did not change the settings, it should be automatically turned on for presentations. If you use a different Windows version, please google <b>do not disturb mode windows</b> and add your Windows version number to the search term.</li>
<li>Click on the Windows <b>Start</b> menu icon (the four squares on your task bar).</li>
<li>Click on <b>Settings</b>.</li>
<li>Then click on <b>System</b> and select <b>Notifications</b>.</li>
<li>There you can just turn on the do not disturb mode with a toggle or set custom notification settings or conditions to automatically activate do not disturb mode.</li>
<li>To change notification settings, click on the arrow down on the left side of the <b>Notifications</b> menu entry and check or uncheck the different options.</li>
<li>To change the conditions to automatically activate do not disturb mode, click on <b>Turn on “do not disturb” automatically</b>.</li>
<li>Now you can add a time schedule for activating and check or uncheck some other options.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="macos" label="MacOS" default>
<ol>
<li>Click on the <b>control center</b> icon (in the upper right corner left to the date).</li>
<li>Click on the <b>moon</b> icon with <b>Focus</b> or <b>Do Not Disturb</b> text (depending on your OS version).</li>
<li>To adjust do not disturb mode, click on the <b>moon</b> icon in your OS menu bar.</li>
<li>Now you can select the following do not disturb time options: <b>For 1 hour</b>, <b>Until tomorrow morning</b> resp. <b>Until this afternoon/evening</b>. Probably there will be more options.</li>
<li>For further settings click on <b>Focus Settings...</b> after clicking on the <b>moon</b> icon in the menu bar.</li>
<li>To add time schedules, click on <b>Do Not Disturb</b> in the settings window that just opened and then click on <b>Add Schedule...</b> and enter the times that you want to have do not disturb enabled.</li>
<li>To set which people should be able to contact you, click on <b>Allowed People</b>.</li>
<li>To set which apps should be able to send notifications, click on <b>Allowed Apps</b>.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="ubuntu" label="Ubuntu" default>
<ol>
<li>Click on the date in the Ubuntu menu bar.</li>
<li>Click on <b>Do Not Disturb</b> to enable or disable do not disturb mode.</li>
<li>For more settings you can also open the Ubuntu settings (Ctrl+E) and then click on <b>Notifications</b>.</li>
<li>Here you can also decide if you want to see notifications on your lock screen.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="android" label="Android">
<ol>
<li>Swipe from the top to the bottom to open the quick settings panel.</li>
<li>Look for a Tile with a <b>⊝</b> icon (circle with a horizontal line).</li>
<li>To activate the do not disturb mode, tap on the <b>⊝</b> tile.</li>
<li>To access further settings for the do not disturb mode, do a long press on the <b>⊝</b> tile in quick settings menu.</li>
<li>There you can also find a setting to get a popup for setting the duration of the do not disturb mode.</li>
<li>Since Android systems differ a little bit for every phone brand, you might find that setting in different spaces. Look for <b>Do Not Disturb Duration</b> or <b>How long?</b> or similar and set it to <b>Always ask</b> or <b>Ask every time</b>.</li>
<li>You can also set different time schedules to activate and deactivate the do not disturb mode automatically or set exceptions from the do not disturb mode for specific persons (depending on the device), apps, alarms and more.</li>
<li>For finetuning of the notification behaviour tap on <b>Display options for hidden notifications</b>, <b>Hide notifications</b> or similar. There you will find options to completely hide the notifications or just disable pop-up notifications or the app notification point.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="ios" label="iOS">
<ol>
<li>Swipe from top to bottom to open the <b>Control center</b>.</li>
<li>Tap on the <b>moon</b> icon to turn on do not disturb mode (or turn it off when it is already on).</li>
<li>To adjust do not disturb settings, do a long press on the <b>moon</b> icon in the control center.</li>
<li>Tap on the <b>⋯</b> icon left to <b>Do Not Disturb</b>.</li>
<li>Below that the options <b>For 1 hour</b>, <b>Until tomorrow morning</b> or <b>Until this afternoon/evening</b> and <b>Until I leave this location</b> will appear to specify when to end do not disturb.</li>
<li>To make further adjustments, tap on <b>Settings</b> below those options.</li>
<li>There you can set exceptions for specific people or apps, customize the appearence of notifications or add a schedule.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
</Tabs>
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:::info

You might be required to set up a screen lock on mobile devices if your device doesn't have a system wide screen lock enabled or if your organization requires the usage of screen lock and will be prompted for that during the setup process.
You might be required to set up a screen lock on mobile devices if your device does not have a system wide screen lock enabled or if your organization requires the usage of screen lock and will be prompted for that during the setup process.

:::

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<li>Tap on <b>Auto lock</b>.</li>
<li>Choose the time span for locking the screen from the list.</li>
<li>The app will now lock itself after the time span you selected elapses with any inactivity.</li>
<li>If you don't want to use the auto lock feature anymore, tap on <b>Auto lock</b> again and select “Deactivate” from the list.</li>
<li>If you do not want to use the auto lock feature anymore, tap on <b>Auto lock</b> again and select “Deactivate” from the list.</li>
</ol>
</TabItem>
</Tabs>
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