You can enable, disable or change notification settings for messages you receive in Hangout for Android. Just follow these steps.
- Open the “Hangouts” app.
- From the screen where you have your list of friends, tap the “Menu”
button, located at the upper-left corner of the screen. - Tap “Settings“.
- Choose the account you are using (usually your email address).
- In the “Notifications” section, select the “Messages” option.
- From this screen, you have a few options to control the chat notifications:
- Notifications – Controls whether you receive a notification at all. Uncheck this box if you don’t want any type of notification including sound or a message in the notification bar. Check it if you’ll be using some type of notification.
- Sound – Set a custom ringtone or silence the notification sound.
- Vibrate – Device will vibrate when a message arrives.
- Back out of the Messages settings, and you can choose “Google Voice SMS” and/or “Google Voice voicemail” to set the notification sound for text messages (if you use that feature in Hangouts).
Be aware of the settings in the “Video Calls” section as well. You’ll have the same Notifications, Sound and Vibrate options as above for video calls.
PJ says
Hi,
I would like to know if there is a way to hide your ID when talking to 2 different people? Or is there a way to make sure the 2 are not able to see each other or see whom you are talking too? I need the privacy for a special plan….nothing dirty or wrong.
Mitchell J. says
WOOOO Kate!! How do I lift someone onto my shoulders online?
Get this woman a mountaintop, for she is the true guru! A couple simple sentences and she just IT’d the bejesus out of a problem that has plagued my wife’s phone for ages now.
We swore off children, but damnit Kate, you will be honored with the name of our firstborn!
Long live Kate the Eternal.
Kate says
I had the same problem. The notification sound of my Hangout app was set to “app provided sound” in settings but no sound came out. I changed it to some other notification sound and now there is sound notification when a message comes in.
TIFFANY TREADWELL says
My notification won’t let me turn on the sound. Its saying the sound is blocked and when I try to switch it the other way it doesn’t let me. Help!!
Unca says
This helped. Thank you for the fix.
John Daugherty says
In order to see the customized sounds I added to my Android I had to convert the mp3s to .ogg files. Now I can see all of them and each one works. I used Nero Recode to convert.
Beverly says
All notifications on my android phone are turned on but I still do not receive any sound on my notifications. I Receive notification sounds on my other apps but not on hangouts. Please help
Carla Geenen says
same problem as described above on my samsung a51
Dan says
This worked! Thank you so much. Even though I never changed the sound, for some reason the sound had been switched to something in Zedge. I changed it back to the default Hangouts sound and I’m back in business!
Debbie says
Hangouts notifications on my android are all turned on and other sounds on my tablet are working but no notification sounds are working with Hangouts even though they are turned on.
Mary Rose Cranfield says
I am having the same issue with no sound. When I check I see there is a message that notifications from this category are blocked but I never blocked it.
CHRISTINE HENSON says
I have no sound option at all?? Can anyone help?
Debbie says
I don’t have a Notifications when I click settings. This was working until recently. Was there an update or something?
Jane says
Thanks. I guess an update reset all my sounds to default and I couldn’t remember how to get at the settings. I would add one more item: restart the phone. Settings didn’t take effect until I did that.
bhavana says
What about for windows 12
Liz says
My hangouts sound notification also doesn’t work. It’s set in settings to play a sound but no sound plays when messages are sent.
I’m actually wondering if this is an Android system problem sound notifications aren’t working for carrier phone number emails even though notifications are set to sound.
John says
As Emmie William said above (and I pasted below) when someone sends me a message there is no sound what so ever. This needs to be looked into Google as it is an important option
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Emmie Williams says
September 11, 2018 at 12:33 am
My hangouts notification sounds works in settings but not when someone sends messages.[/end quote]
Emmie Williams says
My hangouts notification sounds works in settings but not when someone sends messages.
Waughman says
When i go on hangouts i see my bf is active cos it says so under his name .When he don’t replie i asked him why .He says it’s not him active but it’s notification..That is correct.or have i got something to worry about.ty from TAMIELA..