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How to Set Facebook Ringtone, Messages and Post Notification Sounds in Android

How to Set Facebook Ringtone, Messages and Post Notification Sounds in Android

June 27, 2019 by Kat Armstrong 19 Comments

I have discussed in several older articles that I love customization. I never use default sounds, backgrounds or notifications for pretty much anything. Facebook is not an exception. The default sounds annoy me and made me constantly check my phone if I was near another person whose notifications sounded off. When you are in a crowd of people who all use Facebook… you can see where I am going with this. Annoying, right?

Thankfully, you can easily change all of these various notification sounds without having to install any third-party apps on my Android device. Everything is found within either Facebook or Messenger settings, and I am here to show you how it’s done!

Change the Facebook Notification Sound

Open up your Facebook app and tap those three little horizontal (side-to-side) lines at the top-right of the page, Scroll down and tap on “Settings and Privacy” and then on “Settings”.

Now, scroll down to select “Notifications,” and then choose “Notification Settings”.

Scroll to the bottom of this page where you see “Where You Receive Notifications”. You will see it gives you three options: Push, Email and SMS. Tap on “Push”.

On this next screen, tap that next-to-last option: “Tone”.

This opens up the list of sounds you can choose from. Tap on each one in turn to decide which one you like best and then tap on “OK”. This will change your default notification sound for Facebook.


Change the Default Message Tone in Facebook Messenger

Open up the “Settings” app on your phone. Scroll down and tap to open up the “Notifications” area. When all of your apps have loaded, choose “Messenger”. Under the actual “Notifications” area here, tap on “Chats and Calls” first.

You will now see a couple of options. The first one – “Importance”, allows you to decide if you wish calls and chats to pop up on your screen, make noise and so forth. The second option is the one we are looking for, so go ahead and open up “Sound”.

Once again, you will be presented with a list of sound options to listen to and make a selection from. Once you have highlighted the circle next to the sound you wish to use, simply click on the “Back arrow” at the top-left of this screen, and the sound is saved.

You can now go back to the main “Notifications” screen and follow the same process to change the notification sound for group chats if you wish.


Change the Default Sound When Receiving a Call on Messenger

You can also change that annoying “ring” sound that you hear when receiving a call on Facebook Messenger. Head back into your “Settings” again, tap once more on “Notifications” and then choose that “Messenger” app again.

This time, you are going to select “Other”, click on “Sound” and choose one last time from that pop-up list.

What other things are you unsure of how to do or change on Facebook or its Messenger app? I’m always happy to try and help.

Happy Facebooking!

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Comments

  1. Kris says

    October 13, 2022 at 12:50 am

    I too came here after Facebook app changed my notification tone from the one that is selected . Like another poster stated, it is instead using a Samsung tone that I have not selected. Frustrating!

  2. Kayleigh says

    September 23, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    Everytime I click on the Facebook notification tone I want, it never uses the that tone when I receive a Facebook notification like when someone comments on your post etc. It’s using my Samsung built in tone. I never clicked on that tone to use. I’m so confused why I’m not receiving the tones I’m wanting. I’ve reinstalled Facebook and phones been updated etc…still Facebook keeps using my Samsung built in tones. Messenger tones work but it’s the notifications.

  3. BK says

    September 7, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    Whatever tone I selected seems to display but still it will be using the default set by FB in this new upgrade. I have similar issue, not able to re-assign desired tone since the passed few updates. Worst is this latest, its so long and noisy tone.

  4. Nanci says

    August 9, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    There is nothing labelled notifications or even remotely close to it on my phone FB app

  5. Kellie says

    August 8, 2022 at 8:00 am

    Mine was doing the same so uninstalled and then reinstalled the app and seems to be back to normal now.

  6. JoAnn says

    August 2, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    My Facebook notifications tone changed overnight as well. No matter how many times I’ve tried to change it, I can’t. This is EXTREMELY frustrating as the tone is long & VERY annoying. HELP!!!

  7. Dawn Thomas says

    July 29, 2022 at 7:49 pm

    Mine has an okay and I click that but it still goes back to another sound that is not what is marked when I open the notification sounds. Worse part is that my phone changed it all on it’s own, it had been fine until today.

  8. Marilena says

    July 28, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    I’ve done everything you tell us, pres the ok button, but the new sound it’s not saved. The sound from fb drives me crazy!!!

  9. Kevin Zaayer says

    December 12, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    My tone can not be saved there is no cancel or ok button to press to save it

  10. Juliet Taylor Briar says

    November 23, 2021 at 3:25 pm

    There’s no Ok button, it just has the sound selection and doesnt apply the selected sound

  11. Julia says

    November 1, 2021 at 3:18 pm

    There’s no OK button on the menu where I choose a different sound. Anyone else have this problem?

  12. John says

    October 27, 2021 at 1:28 pm

    I have two Samsung Galaxy J3 (because I have three SIM cards, three different phone operators). On the one I could change facebook tone to my default tone, but on the other phone after I change facebook tone it automaticaly return then to facebook tone when return to previous screen (there is no salvation button/option), The same phone model and the same version of facebook. There could be a strange bug as I tried to make the same settings on both phones,

  13. Jay says

    October 8, 2021 at 2:52 am

    Facebook doesn’t have an “Ok” or “save” button after I selected the notification ringtone I preferred.

  14. Natalie Arlene Tate says

    October 4, 2021 at 2:33 pm

    How turn on Facebook messager and messages

  15. Lynn McGrath says

    September 18, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    Nice instructions but my Facebook Ringtones page does not have an OK button. So I cannot keep the sound I selected. Would you know why I have no Ok or Cancel buttons at the end of the Facebook Ringtones page ?
    Lynn

  16. suraj giri says

    July 7, 2021 at 1:35 am

    very very helpful

  17. Barbara J Dols says

    April 12, 2021 at 2:21 pm

    I have the Galaxy a71. I did all as you posted. It still plays the older sound. It didn’t update to the one I chose. :-(

  18. Valerie McBee says

    March 5, 2020 at 9:06 am

    This helped so much. I just got a Note 10 plus and sounds have been messed up since day 1. I’m so thankful to now have my facebook and messenger sounds back.

  19. JCNike24 says

    August 20, 2019 at 2:42 pm

    Changing the notification in Facebook does not work. It uses my text sound, and it druves me crazy. No matter what I do, it won’t change.

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