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Support => Troubles & Questions => Topic started by: eldron on January 13, 2025, 11:00:41

Title: Locus News in Status Bar
Post by: eldron on January 13, 2025, 11:00:41
Hi,
I´ve just changed phones and have installed Locus (latest Version) on my new phone (Galaxy S23). I restored all settings from a Locus Backup.
This morning I received 3 notifications on my status bar from "Locus news", Locus was not running at the time.
In all my many years of using locus I never once received "Locus News" notifications.
I checked within the Locus Settings, but could not find a way to turn them off. I don´t want to block Locus notifications in general, as I do need them for track recordings etc.
But i definitely don´t want any locus news notifications.
So my question is - how do i turn them off?
The Locus icon also has a little "3", indicating that I have 3 messages, but when I open locus there are no messages anywhere.   
Title: Re: Locus News in Status Bar
Post by: Graf Geo on January 13, 2025, 13:28:09
The notification categories can be selected in the app notifications under App info. The news can also be switched off there.
Under Android 12: Settings -> Apps -> Locus Map -> Notifications -> Notification categories

Title: Re: Locus News in Status Bar
Post by: eldron on January 13, 2025, 14:34:54
Thanks for your reply.
I am on android 14 and I don't have a notification categories option there. I can only turn the notifications on or off, but I can't pick any categories.
Title: Re: Locus News in Status Bar
Post by: alang on January 13, 2025, 14:45:34
On my Samsung Android 14 there is: "Settings/Notifications/Advanced Settings/Manage notification categories for each app".
Ensure that is enabled.
Title: Re: Locus News in Status Bar
Post by: eldron on January 13, 2025, 14:50:26
@alang
That was it. Turned it on and now I can select the categories.
Thanks a lot for the tip!
I think that it would be useful to be able to select the notification categories within locus though, like you can in most other apps.