How to enable Per App Notification Sounds?

[Trees]

How do I enable per App notification sounds? For example, the BBC News app plays a brief sound for news updates. I know that the sound is unique and is the BBC News "sound" because that sound plays on iOS. When the same news update occurs on the Note 10+, I just hear the "Notification sound" that I have selected in Settings\Sounds and vibration\Notification sound.

I have looked around in the Note 10+ Settings and the BBC News app, and don't see a way to set or change the "Notification sound" so that news updates play the BBC News sound rather than the Note 10+ Notification sound.

 

[Gary_Berg]

Go into phone settings, open Notifications. Find the app in the list, tap on it. You can change notifications by category, turn off sounds or change them.

 

[mustang7757]

Long press the app and tap info scroll to notification and go through each sub menu

 

[B. Diddy]

I think some apps don't let you customize the sound. (That used to be the case with Facebook, but it's been a long time since I had that installed.)

 

[Bodestone]

I know that Microsoft Teams doesn't, even through it says it now does. At least it's now the notification alert and not the full ringtone that it was when I fiirst installed it but now if I silence the alert as an app it doesn't even vibrate which I would like to happen.

 

[Forgewizard]

Get Zedge first, then search for the BBC News notification sound, download that. Go to your phone settings, sounds, notifications, list all apps, select your BNC app. It is likely already set to use default notification sound, tap that and select your new BBC sound. Done! You can assign all sorts of sounds to individuals as well as apps!

 

[Bodestone]

But.. can the aps not let you manage their notificatons sound? Defaulting to system notification and then choos orther if required. Why is a 3rd party app needed to make this possible?
If it is that you would need to give file access to the apps that you might not otherwise do then why is it not baked into Android to change the notification of each app, rather than just taking you to the app settings that has no option for it?

Don't get me wrong I am all for the increased granularity of app permissions in Android 10 but notification tones should not have been affected and the fact that almost every app uses the system notification now, with no way to change natively, when previously they had their own is just barmy.

 

[Trees]

Thanks for all the responses and ideas. I've looked into what Forgewizard and mustang7757 suggests. While I can choose a Sound, the sounds are those provided by the OS, and I don't see a way to browse beyond the list.

I do notice 12 Slack sounds, which to me indicates that maybe the BBC Android app did not provide it's default sound during installation. In My Files\Internal storage\Notifications the only .m4a visible is facebook_ringtone_pop.m4a. Internal storage\Ringtones is empty. Internal storage\Android\media contains com.Slack and within that is Notifications folder which contains the 12 Slack sounds that are also selectable in Settings\Sounds and vibration\Notification sound.

As a test, I uninstalled the BBC News app, then reinstalled. Was not prompted to allow access to storage (in the event the app needs to store it's m4a file in Android\media or similar directory. I went into App info\App Settings\Notifications and set to Allowed. Clicked on Notifications\Allowed, then in Categories, clicked on Audio Playback. Then clicked on Sound. As before, the same default OS and Slack notification sounds are available. The current selection is Default notification sound, which was already selected. Will leave it and see if that makes a difference.

I have nothing against Zedge, but don't think I should have to download a 1st party app's sound from a 3rd party site/app. As Bodestone mentions, I also distinctly remember in earlier Android OS versions where each app had its own unique notification sound, or the ability to set or change if desired. I remember being on many conference calls where I could hear the ESPN app going off - on my phone and the call participants - and I knew that the other callers also had Android phones.

Speaking about the ESPN app, I also don't see a way to get it's notification sound. Basically for all apps, minus Slack, every time I get a notification, its the Notification sound I selected - Milky Way.

Am I missing a setting or configuration needed to get each app's default notification sound minus going to Zedge?

 

[mustang7757]

Thanks for all the responses and ideas. I've looked into what Forgewizard and mustang7757 suggests. While I can choose a Sound, the sounds are those provided by the OS, and I don't see a way to browse beyond the list.

I do notice 12 Slack sounds, which to me indicates that maybe the BBC Android app did not provide it's default sound during installation. In My Files\Internal storage\Notifications the only .m4a visible is facebook_ringtone_pop.m4a. Internal storage\Ringtones is empty. Internal storage\Android\media contains com.Slack and within that is Notifications folder which contains the 12 Slack sounds that are also selectable in Settings\Sounds and vibration\Notification sound.

As a test, I uninstalled the BBC News app, then reinstalled. Was not prompted to allow access to storage (in the event the app needs to store it's m4a file in Android\media or similar directory. I went into App info\App Settings\Notifications and set to Allowed. Clicked on Notifications\Allowed, then in Categories, clicked on Audio Playback. Then clicked on Sound. As before, the same default OS and Slack notification sounds are available. The current selection is Default notification sound, which was already selected. Will leave it and see if that makes a difference.

I have nothing against Zedge, but don't think I should have to download a 1st party app's sound from a 3rd party site/app. As Bodestone mentions, I also distinctly remember in earlier Android OS versions where each app had its own unique notification sound, or the ability to set or change if desired. I remember being on many conference calls where I could hear the ESPN app going off - on my phone and the call participants - and I knew that the other callers also had Android phones.

Speaking about the ESPN app, I also don't see a way to get it's notification sound. Basically for all apps, minus Slack, every time I get a notification, its the Notification sound I selected - Milky Way.

Am I missing a setting or configuration needed to get each app's default notification sound minus going to Zedge?

Let me show you what I was referring to , not every app has this
Tap where I have it marked to open other sub menu , then 3nd screenshot takes you to change the sound where you tap there to open sound files

 

[Trees]

I'm beginning to think that some Android based apps don't have a sound file. I checked WhatsApp on my Note 10, and for reference BBC News and WhatsApp on my Pixel 3. Don't see sound files for either app in the app notification/sounds settings, or when browsing the file system (as a non-root user).

 

[mustang7757]

I'm beginning to think that some Android based apps don't have a sound file. I checked WhatsApp on my Note 10, and for reference BBC News and WhatsApp on my Pixel 3. Don't see sound files for either app in the app notification/sounds settings, or when browsing the file system (as a non-root user).

WhatsApp on my Note 10+

 

[Bodestone]

I have found that If I create a folder called Notifications on either the internal storage or SD card that the sounds in there are automatically listed among the system notification sounds. I have this to bering some of my favourites across from the Noye 8 amd earlier.