Twitter is a great way to stay in touch with friends and family, but it can also be a great way to get alerts about new articles, videos, or other interesting things that you might not have time to read. If you’re constantly getting notifications about new tweets or other notifications from Twitter, you may find that it’s become overwhelming and difficult to focus on what you’re supposed to be doing. To stop Twitter highlights from pestering you with unrelated notifications, follow these tips:
- Make sure that your phone is turned off when you’re not using Twitter. This will help reduce the amount of notifications that are coming through your phone.
- Disable push notifications on your phone so that only relevant notifications are coming through. This will help keep your attention focused on what you’re supposed to be doing.
- Try setting up a schedule for how many notifications per day are allowed and how long each notification should last. This will help keep your notification settings organized and easy to use.
Social networks are always trying to get you to “engage” more with their service and recently, Twitter has introduced a new trick: Highlights notifications.
Highlights are, in theory, content Twitter thinks you’ll want to see because of some secret algorithm. If a few people you follow all share the same link or have a conversation, you might get a notification, like the one below, telling you about it—even if you had no interaction with the tweet yourself.
For the time being, Highlights are only available in the official iOS and Android mobile apps, but they may make their way to the other platforms soon.
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot you can do about Highlights. You can’t turn them off completely. The best you can do is ask Twitter to show them less often and turn off the push notifications. Here’s how to do both.
Go to Twitter’s Notifications pane and find a Highlights notification. If you haven’t had any yet, lucky you!
Tap the arrow to the right of it and then tap See Less Often.
We can’t guarantee how effective this will be, but at leas it lets Twitter know you aren’t a fan of the feature.
Next, head to Android’s settings. It’s in the left menu on Android and the top right on iOS.
Select Push Notifications and then turn Highlights off.
Now, at least you won’t get nagged when Twitter sends you a Highlight notification; you’ll only see it in your Notifications feed.
