Turn Off Facebook’s Game Notifications

Daniel Howley
·Technology Editor

We all get those annoying smartphone notifications from Facebook friends — the ones asking us to play Candy Crush — at least 20 times a day.

And while Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said the company is looking into eliminating the pesky alerts, for now they’re still a problem.

Thankfully, there’s already a way to silence them on your own. Here’s how:

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1. Open the Facebook app and, if you’re using the Android Facebook app, tap the More icon (the one with three horizontal lines) in the top right corner of the screen to open the Settings menu. If you’re using the Facebook iPhone app, the More icon is in the lower right corner of the screen.

2. Android users should then scroll down and select App Settings. Folks with iPhones will scroll down to Settings and select Account Settings.

3. Tap Notifications and, if you are using the Android Facebook app, move the slider next to App Notifications to the off position. If you’re on an iPhone, tap Notifications, then select Mobile and uncheck the boxes next to Application Requests and Application Notifications.

That’s it: You’ll never receive another annoying game request again.

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