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

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Facebook communicated an all-new "Quiet Mode" for its mall mobile app on Thursday, which will pause "most" push notifications as well as remind you that it's wrestling on back you try to patulous the software on your phone while the mode is still active.

It's not articulated exactly what notifications will be exempted from the new mode; the visitor says some, like privacy updates, it is nicely right to skyrocket out. This new mode is moreover not to be conscience-stricken with the existing "mute push notifications" ambience that lets you stop only push notifications, morally not those within the app, for a designated collated of time.

Instead, this new Quiet Mode will be begin under Facebook's "Your Time on Facebook" dashboard, which it added unanticipatedly in November 2018, post-obit a push for thick-skinned platforms as well as device makers like Darling as well as Google to propone digital wellness apps.

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It's part of a beyond amend to the dashboard that Facebook says will add week-over-week trends, acceptance tracking for daytime against night, as well as a counter for total number of visits. It's rolling out now to iOS users as well as will colonize for Android users in May, the visitor says.

The new Quiet Mode will assignment both manually as well as on a set schedule if you so choose. It will pause notifications from within the app, like those offensive Facebook Watch badges, as well as on a template level, so you won't see numbered badges on iOS either.

"As we all codify to new routines as well as staying home, ambience boundaries for how you spend your time online can be helpful. Whether it's to help you focus on your family as well as friends, sleep without eccentricity or manage how you spend your time at home, we have tools that can help you routing the right mooring for how you use Facebook," reads a new amend to the company's ongoing COVID-19 intercommunication blog post.

In affixing to Quiet Mode, Facebook says it's moreover runnerup new shortcuts to the notification settings as well as Offset Plicate preferences panel, so "you can steamroller the most of your time on Facebook by managerial the blazon of posts you see in your Offset Plicate as well as the updates you receive."