Push notifications are a great way to keep up with the activity on your blog(s). Find out when someone likes or reblogs one of your posts, as well as when someone starts following you, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
To choose what you receive notifications about:
- Open Tumblr on your device.
- Go to the account tab.
- Tap the gear icon.
- Tap “General settings.”
- Tap “Notifications.”
- Turn the various types of notifications on or off here, and tap “Fine-tune these notifications” to select which of your blogs that setting will apply to. If you only want to receive notifications from Tumblrs you follow, you can specify that too by turning on “Only people I follow.”
To receive push notifications for new posts on a specific blog:
- Open a blog in the Tumblr app.
- Tap its user menu (the little human-thing).
- Select “Get notifications.”
Note: If you’re wondering why you don’t receive push notifications for group blogs that you’re a member of, note that you can only receive notifications for blogs on which you’re an admin.
To receive push notifications for notes on a specific post from someone else’s blog:
- Open the notes of the desired post.
- Tab the bell icon at the top-right.
To mute notifications for an individual post on your own blog:
If you’ve posted something popular and are receiving too many notifications about one particular post, you can mute just those notifications. There are a few ways to do this:
- From a push notification: Press and hold on the push notification, then tap “Mute.”
- From the post: Tap the meatballs menu (●●●) in the upper right-hand corner, tap “Mute,” and then confirm your decision. You can also unmute the notifications on this post by following the same steps and tapping “Unmute” instead.
- From your activity feed: Tap the messaging bubble at the bottom of your dashboard. Navigate to the Activity tab, track down an activity line item from the post in question, and then press and hold until you’re given the option to tap the “Mute” confirmation button.
Note that you’ll still always see every post activity line item on your dashboard and in the activity section, even if you turn off or mute push notifications.
To turn off push notifications on all your devices:
- Open Tumblr on your device.
- Go to the account tab.
- Tap the gear icon.
- Tap “General settings.”
- Tap “Notifications.”
- Switch the Notifications toggles from On to Off for each type of notification.
To turn off push notifications on a specific iOS device, simply hide Tumblr notifications in your device settings:
- Open Settings on your device.
- Tap “Notification Center.”
- Tap “Tumblr.”
- Turn off “Allow Notifications.”
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