Remove notifications that cannot be deleted on Android (permanent)

In Android, two types of notifications can appear when you lower or display the top bar (status bar): normal notifications that can be deleted (by dragging each one to the right or using the button that says Delete) and other notifications that are higher under the label «Activa», «In progress»Or any other. These they don’t have an option to delete and they cannot be removed by dragging them to the side. The latter are the “persistent notifications” of Android.

Those permanent notifications are sometimes created and pinned there in the status bar by certain applications so that they work “without fail”. In fact, in some cases this is the case and they cannot be eliminated unless the task they request to be completed is carried out. But in other cases these notifications are flexible and only require making a change in the application settings so that they are not shown again.

How to remove persistent notifications from apps

You must look in the settings of the application that generated the notification. If the application allows the notification to be removed or hidden, you will surely find the option in your preferences or your own settings. There you will have to find an option that says something like «Run in foreground” O “Notification in the status bar»And disable that option.

To clear the notification icon (the permanent icon that appears in the notification bar all the time) we will have to look in the Settings for an option that says something like «Notification Icon»And deactivate it.

This is possible in apps like Tasker, APP Lockers and Google Home, the one in charge of showing the permanent notification of the Chromecast.

Permanent Android system notifications

There are some persistent system notifications that can be easily disabled from the Android settings. For example, those about data usage you can remove them from Settings, Wireless and networks, Data usage. Regarding this, some computers even show the network connection speed (k / s, b / s) as icons in the status bar, which on my Huawei is configured in Settings, Display, More Display settings.

Notifications such as voicemail, also permanent, can be forcibly removed, stopping the application or deleting its data, in this case the Phone app.

There are other Android notifications that are more important. For example, the system update, little available space or full memory, are some that cannot be deleted unless what they are asking for is completed, that is, you will have to update the system so that the notification disappears, or free up storage space internal.

Should persistent notifications be removed from the status bar?

Warning when removing persistent Tasker notification (Disable option “Run in background”)

Removing, deleting or hiding these notifications will give more space to view “normal” notifications in the status bar; removing their icons will also free up space. However, this may not be recommended in certain cases. For example, in the case of the Tasker application, the persistent notification (which is associated with the “Run in foreground” option) “prevents the application from being closed by Android in case the device is low on resources, which makes it more reliable«.

The Tasker icon can be safely removed or hidden, the app says, but the persistent notification should be kept in order for the app to work flawlessly or be more “reliable.”

The case of the Smart App Protector application is different: removing the persistent notification and its icon from the status bar does not generate a warning message, something that suggests that it will still work fine after doing this. This may not be entirely true and it is possible that after removing it, the application tends to close itself. Everything will be a matter of verifying its operation to determine if it turns out like this.

In the case of system notifications, as I indicated, if they are important, the system will not allow you to force their elimination. If they are not important, then you should be able to remove them without worry.

Conclution
Notifications that cannot be cleared normally on Android (persistent notifications) are created by certain apps to work fine all the time (technically, your persistent notification means that the app will be running in the ‘foreground’ or just active or ‘In Progress’ »). These applications may give the option to remove their notification and icon, but this can generally cause the application to stop working at times, for no reason. It may not happen with all applications so it will all be a matter of checking if the application crashes once this is done. If it fails, obviously the best thing to do is to keep the persistent notification active, at the cost of the space it occupies in the status bar.

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