Programmes often display a banner in the taskbar when they are running. We will show you how to deactivate such notifications individually for each programme.

The most straightforward way to turn off Facebook Messenger is to do via the Facebook app. Even though you are turning Facebook chat off on your mobile device, you will still receive messages ...

Those notifications can pop up on your Windows or Mac computer or on your Android phone, depending on how you subscribed to them.

If you want to turn off all of your notifications, you need to disable them on each device individually. Luckily, many devices have a similar process.