Facebook is adding a Quiet Mode that silences push notifications on mobile

Facebook announced an all-new “Quiet Mode” for its primary cell app on Thursday, for you to pause “most” push notifications and remind you that it’s turned on whilst you try to open the software program to your phone at the same time as the mode continues to be active.

It’s no longer clean precisely what notifications could be exempted from the brand new mode; the organization says a few, like privacy updates, it's miles legally required to send out. This new mode is also not to be careworn with the existing “mute push notifications” placing that helps you to prevent simplest push notifications, but no longer those in the app, for a chosen quantity of time.

rather, this new Quiet Mode can be observed below facebook’s “it slow on fb” dashboard, which it delivered back in November 2018, following a push for primary structures and device makers like Apple and Google to promote digital well being apps.

It’s a part of a larger update to the dashboard that facebook says will add week-over-week trends, utilization monitoring for daylight as opposed to night time, and a counter for total range of visits. It’s rolling out now to iOS users and could arrive for Android users in may additionally, the enterprise says.

the new Quiet Mode will work each manually and on a fixed time table in case you so select. it's going to pause notifications from within the app, like those obnoxious facebook Watch badges, and on a device stage, so you received’t see numbered badges on iOS both.

“As we all modify to new exercises and staying home, setting obstacles for how you spend your time on line can be helpful. whether or not it’s to help you awareness in your own family and friends, sleep without distraction or manipulate how you spend some time at domestic, we've got tools that let you locate the proper stability for how you use fb,” reads a brand new update to the enterprise’s ongoing COVID-19 facts weblog put up.

in addition to Quiet Mode, fb says it’s additionally delivered new shortcuts to the notification settings and news Feed alternatives panel, so “you may make the most of it slow on fb via controlling the form of posts you spot for your news Feed as well as the updates you get hold of.”