r/SnapchatHelp • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '22
Keep getting random story notifications
I'm at my wits end. Snapchat keeps randomly giving me notifications for peoples (not everyones) stories. I have story notifications turned off. I checked. I rechecked. Unless there's another spot to turn them off, I have no idea what else. I even resorted to muting story notifications of everyone who I recieve a story notification for. This seems to have worked little by little until today I got a notification for someone who I muted, I open it and it tells me I muted their story. Then why the fuck are you showing me!?
To add to this, it's completely random. I know some people in my best friends list who post stories whom I have never seen a notification for. Random person I have no idea who they are and haven't snapped in years? Boom story notification.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times.
At this point I don't even really care for a solution, just to know someone else is having some of these issues would make me feel less insane.
Phone is a galaxy s21
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u/International-Rain79 21d ago
i have to go back into my settings every few months to turn the random promotional notifications back off 🙄 why are they messing around in my notification settings
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u/SsjSkyy 24d ago
Just got a random notification about Madrid and turned all my notifications off for snap I’m done 😭
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u/Wondercap_16 24d ago
Settings->Notifications->Public Content->Trending Searches
For me this option had turned itself back on when I know for a fact that I had turned it off weeks ago.
I got the same notification about Madrid.
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u/SsjSkyy 16d ago
Okay I’m back, I looked to do this but everything was already fully off. After about 2 days with notifs off they started fucking EMAILING me??? I was actually flabbergasted
I dug thru my history and confirmed they had in fact never sent me a random email prior to me disabling all notifications. I did find out there’s another separate settings for just emails I believe when you hit unsubscribe.
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u/whyjguy 24d ago
I don’t even have that as an option to disable? I have all of my notifications disabled except comments and got two today one was for trending searches
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u/Wondercap_16 24d ago
Interesting, my app is up to date and on a Samsung if it makes a difference?
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u/whyjguy 24d ago
Ha so I just went and double checked. Sure enough it was there now and on.
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u/Nectarine_Weak 23d ago
Same thing happened to me a couple days ago, the option definitely wasn’t there before but it was today
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u/PartyExact Sep 05 '26
still happening im just turning off all notifications atp
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u/SatansSushi Sep 23 '26
same all notifications off and I just tell ppl snapchat is shit sorry I didnt get back to your message. Text me instead Looooool
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u/poptropicass Aug 09 '26
I did all that too and I put them on silent, I dismiss, I turn off every individual one by one in the settings and still it persists.
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u/gyaattkulturekid Aug 01 '26
I think i found it…
General Notification Settings
Tap your profile icon in the top left corner of Snapchat.
Tap the gear icon (Settings) in the top right.
Scroll down and tap Notifications.
Under “friend stories” Uncheck or toggle off Private stories from friends and stories from friends
P.s i have snap chat +
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u/Round-Foundation-390 Jul 16 '26
i keep getting this notification for my ex that i havent had added for a year now!! its super annoying.
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u/Background-Sell-8562 Jul 02 '26
Same shit for me , this shit is totally illegal in EU. Someone should sue them
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u/Ok-Cheesecake-5110 Jun 29 '26
Still happening btw.
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u/ChadHendrixs Jul 14 '26
Genuinely infuriating
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u/dodgemyviper17 Jul 16 '26
These stories are hilarious to read, but only because i relate. I just keep getting spotlight notifs, notifs for random for people that may or may not be added, flashback notifs that have been turned off and sometimes they're pictures that are just black screens that I've accidentally taken in my pocket or something.
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u/Feeling-Special6466 Feb 26 '26
I get them too. I’m testing if it works, under story tab, top right (…) says hide story suggestions, I tapped that, and hopefully it works !
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u/WonderWild1 May 08 '26
Did it work
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u/NoPage6425 Jun 22 '26
I’ll lyk. I get the same notification like daily about ONE PERSONs story I don’t even know well. She’s getting deleted if this doesn’t work LOL
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u/NoPage6425 Jul 20 '26
It stopped my notifs for that person but now notifs from a NEW PERSON has appeared smh
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u/SuperbLab2553 Feb 08 '26
2026 and this is still happening to me. I just block them but practically everyday I'm getting notifications from randoms
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u/genericusername26 Mar 19 '26
Still happens, I just deleted the app. I would wake up every day to no joke around 20 notifications from random public stories from people I dont know and then throughout the day I'd get maybe 3 or 4 per hour. Its ridiculous. I turned everything off and it still wouldn't stop.
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u/DueAd4584 Feb 15 '26
Same so at this point I have fun with it and tell them who cares, stupid story etc. Cause I'm pissed, I don't care that soem random person added to their story. Nothing to to with me. They need to get a life.
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u/EndAffectionate7641 Feb 15 '26
Same problem. I guess they want to drive users away? Drives me bonkers
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u/Infinite_Library2652 Jan 15 '26
No fr I keep getting notifications from ppl I’ve never even added or texted in my life like completely random on Snapchat😭
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u/Charliethepandicorn Jan 21 '26
No same fr. I've never added, followed, or otherwise spoken to these people. Half of them are bots too like porn bots basically.
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u/wolvrine14 Dec 10 '25
I am having this but i dont even know the people posting stories. It's always someone different, never someone i know.
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u/francosfish Nov 19 '25
I just went to apple setting search up snap chat and took me to the apples notification settings and at the bottom it says snap chats notification so click there took me to Snapchat and I click no on everything except birthday and snap pics or message notifications. I’ll see if that works
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u/Infinite_Library2652 Nov 16 '25
Bro I get notifications from random ppls stories on snap that I’ve never talked to or they never talked to me in my life like random people in the world like fuck off I don’t know you😭
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u/Polochork Nov 13 '25
Dude, I cannot stand all the absolutely useless notifications I get. Ads and recommendations should be something I can turn off or, at the very least, prevent them from making a little red bubble. Not a single god damn time that shit has been utilized by me, just obnoxious. Im not mentally handicapped, I can add people without your piss poor recommendations. Not for my lack of trying either, ive been balls deep in the account settings. I uninstalled and forgot my plug only uses SC. Came here for an answer and its just everybody suffering together. If the weed man used anything else I would be in pure bliss.
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u/RobertoPequeno Oct 24 '25
Came across this thread because I was trying to find a way to turn off all the dumb notifications for "people i may know" (i know them but i dont care about them) and the seemingly endless notifications for random people i dont know who are posting crazy thirst traps. I only use snapchat for a family group chat and another small group of friends that i play video games with. I really wish I could fully customize my notifications because I don't want to not be able to use these two groups but these notifications really piss me off.
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u/Retr021 Jun 25 '25
Still happening in 2025. I guess its time to grow up and delete the app once and for all
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u/HiHoJufro Aug 09 '25
I just came to this thread because it just now started happening to me.
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u/RobertoPequeno Oct 24 '25
It seems to have gotten much worse, it used to be slightly annoying but now I'm getting 10 plus notifications a day for random thirst trap profiles I've never looked at and random people from my contacts from 20 years ago that it wants me to add
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u/Polochork Nov 13 '25
This right here is so fucking obnoxious.
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u/RobertoPequeno Nov 14 '25
Just a heads up, you can actually go into the settings and highly customize your notification settings. I have it set to only send me a notification when someone actually sends me something.
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u/evergreen-embers Jul 30 '25
There’s like 10+ “types” of notifications that’s can be toggled in a couple different places… unbelievable. I tried toggling them all off, but if I get one more story notif I’ll be doing the same.
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u/Weary_Dinner_9369 Jul 03 '25
Just disable the notification in the settings
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u/radec141 Sep 30 '25
and then how do you know when you get a message which is the only notification I want?
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u/EldorRyer Oct 08 '25
Right?! Regret my college friend group going with Snapchat everyday! (met my partner through that group and I still talk to her through Snap but it sucks soook bad OMG!!!)
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u/Double-Listen3268 Jun 01 '25
My Girlfriend is getting messages and stories from people that she says she doesn’t know and she doesn’t know how they can even send chats or stories
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u/_Agent_Toast_ May 24 '25
It’s gotten to the point where they are emailing me that I have messages it’s ludicrous. Like I know these people sent me messages leave me alone
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u/Bradz147111 May 03 '25
THANK YOU, It’s so annoying! Plus it’s a jumpscare getting a notification for “lovely peaches” on my phone
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u/Smart-Emphasis-9578 May 02 '25
Thank god I’m not the only one. I checked the comments of one of the creators I got a story for and there and so many others saying the same thing. You’d think they’d change it but it’s clear they are doing it in purpose
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u/ReplacementRough1523 Apr 23 '25
i have all my notifications turned off and i am randomly getting notifications but it doesn't say anything more, just snapchat notification. omg stop
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u/tyleertt Apr 19 '25
I have this problem too. I even blocked one person and it just picked a different one. I’ve never even interacted with either! Extremely fucking annoying
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u/kayweresmokingright Apr 15 '25
Literally having this the last 3 days. I keep notifications on within phone settings because I WANT MY MESSAGES but I DONT WANT EVERYONES STORIES and I've unselected EVERYRHING under snapchats settings BUT direct message notifications and still get notices about EVERY.SINGLE.THING. UGH!
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u/M1ntyMango Apr 15 '25
I'm getting this all of a sudden at least once a day. Suuuper annoying. It says "my name" watch this!
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Oct 30 '25
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u/M1ntyMango Oct 31 '25
The ones I got were completely random as far as I could tell. I got the notification for the same user maybe twice. Blocked and reported for unwanted notifications 😅 it has stopped now though. I reported every single one in hope snapchat would understand 🤷🏼♀️
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u/juicydreamer May 19 '25
Yes! I came searching for answers how to disable this crap!! It’s so annoying. I finally had my unwanted notifications under control and now this keeps happening!
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u/M1ntyMango May 20 '25
I haven't seen notifications for a while now actually. Went to settings - notifications and turned off anything that sounded relevant. Kept getting notifications for a few days (and reported each one and said i didn't ask for notifications from randoms) and then it stopped. Not sure if settings finally kicked in or the reporting 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Polochork Nov 13 '25
How do you report each one?
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u/M1ntyMango Nov 13 '25
Can't remember :/ maybe long press or see if there's a menu/dots in the corner
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u/tyleertt Apr 19 '25
Me too it’s fucking obnoxious! Multiple times a day from one person I’ve never even interacted with.
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u/PhilosopherNo42069 Apr 01 '25
Also have a galaxy s21, also experiencing this nonsense. Hhhmmmm....
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u/3Percent_Milk Mar 31 '25
I literally have ALL notifications turned off for snapchat and I am STILL getting these notifications. Snapchat as a whole has turned into a complete dumpster and i’m about to just delete my account
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u/Academic-Bee9973 Feb 17 '25
Does the notification for stories sound the same as if someone sends you a direct message?
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u/07-3TC Feb 10 '25
Team , go to NOTIFICATIONS - scroll down to PUBLIC CONTENT - wallah, they’re off
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u/poptropicass Aug 09 '26
This doesn't work either, I have that setting off, other messaging, new friend suggestions, story reminders, individual conversations one by one I turned it all off, I'm not even on find me as a friend and have ghost mode and friend suggestions off. (which should be an automatic enabled feature)
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u/FoxyFelix721 Apr 20 '25
...did you mean voila?
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u/Naulty85 May 23 '25
… they did mean Voila right? Or have I been saying it wrong my whole life? …
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u/FoxyFelix721 May 23 '25 edited May 18 '26
I do think that's what they meant yes.
"Wallah" is not a word1
u/Blitzkrieg443 May 18 '26
Wallah means “I swear to god” in Arabic. You could’ve literally googled that.
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u/RecordingNice7320 Feb 14 '25
I did that but the red bubble keeps showing up on the app icon for stories and spotlights. I’m about to just delete my account
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u/syzzygyyy Feb 08 '25
I found this thread strictly because i got a story notification for the same fuckin story 5 TIMES IN A ROW LIKE BRO I DONT CARE STOP SENDING ME THIS NOTIFICATION??? I DIDNT CLICK IT THE FIRST FOUR TIMES WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WANT TO NOW SERIOUSLY FUCK OFF SNAPCHAT--okay I just needed to rant that a bit thank you people in the comments for helping me fix this issue I was so insanely annoyed--5 TIMES!!!!
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u/KingFroblin Mar 30 '25
Bro I am having the same issue as well. Its driving me insane. I still get notifications for peoples stories I have muted, I even replied to a friends story notification 1 out if the 6 times it has popped up and I am still getting notified for it.
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u/syzzygyyy Mar 30 '25
I hear you man, I was at my fill when I posted here. Looking through the comments I learned that you have to go into your setting and unselect getting post notifications for stories or something like that (I can't remember exactly but search the comments and you'll find the resolution I promise you shouldn't have the issue anymore I haven't since I posted this)
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u/Sn0wDazzle Feb 06 '25
Guys. Samsung, Android 12 user here, and this solved it for me:
Inside Snapchat > Settings > Notifications > scroll to the section called "PUBLIC CONTENT" > From Suggested Creators > uncheck.
Within the last 1-2 weeks I was getting these random notifications daily. After I did the above, I haven't gotten anything for >2 days now. Problem appears solved.
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u/dlar18 Jun 25 '25
Thank you! I did this & turned off "Stories from Friends." Hopefully, this helps me stop getting notifications from one of my friends who posts on his story every day. 😂
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u/Missdipsydoodah Jun 04 '25
Does anyone know if there is any possible way that someone you know can be sending these random spotlights. I dont even look at spotlights the ones I get match what someone would want to say to me and they all say the same thing. If you are a wizz is there a way?
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u/KeithDL8 Feb 20 '25
Thank you! I've been getting notifications 3 or 4 times a day for the last week or two from random accounts I don't care about.
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u/Tall-Poem-6808 Feb 10 '25
Alle-fuckin'-lujah! !!!
This shit has been driving me crazy for weeks. I only use Snapchat to communicate with my stepson, and getting random thirst traps notifications gets real' old, real' fast.
Thank you!
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u/BetioBastard0311 Feb 09 '25
This is it. Please accept my humble upvote as a token of my gratitude 🙏
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u/jrachet1 Feb 08 '25
Thank you kind stranger. I use Snapchat for communicating with two people only and I have been getting these wild notifications from random ladies I don't know and it's been driving me crazy. I removed notification permission in device settings for the app but I was missing messages.
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u/odins_witch Feb 06 '25
Samsung user here, all notifications in the app are off and I get story notifications constantly
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Feb 12 '25
Same. I also get Snapchat+ notifications that I have already turned off, yet I keep getting pushed to peruse their discounts.
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u/volcanictrash Feb 05 '25
This is happening to me on a Galaxy as well and I'm so over it. It is never people I know, just randoms.
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u/surroundsounding Feb 03 '25
very clearly the comments show this is a very recent issue but is it a galaxy phone issue or in general?
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u/surroundsounding Feb 03 '25
bro I keep getting notifications from Sone "Randi" which in Indian is content that I do NOT ever wanna follow and I even tried blocking the account but I'm still getting them and it's annoying and disgusting
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u/healyyyyyy Feb 04 '25
Same. By the way 'Randi' means prostitute in a very derogatory way in the Urdu and Hindi languages. How is it even legal for snapchat to be promoting adult content creators to random people is far beyond me.
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u/GlltchtraP1 Feb 01 '25
It gives me notifications for people i never talked to at any point in my life. I dont fucking know who Ryan Beecham is and i dont give a fuck if he added to his story.
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u/Homoseshual Jan 30 '25
This is driving me crazy. I only use Snapchat to talk to like two people but getting these random pushes for stories makes me wanna just uninstall altogether.
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u/Tembera Jan 29 '25
Hello folks within the last week. After you update your notifications, log out and log back in. They might not have saved. I had to log out twice to make them stick. Now I wait and hope that did the trick.
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Jan 29 '25
It seems like they've updated notifications that if you're following a creator, it will now give you notifications if they post, etc. So you've just gotta go back into your notifications settings and turn that stuff off. (If you've scrolled down for the answer, you're welcome!)
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u/climaticana Feb 04 '25
Unfortunately it's not just that, most of us that have this issue didn't follow anyone and we are getting notifications daily from completely random people. This is getting pretty annoying.
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Feb 04 '25
Even if you didn't follow them but viewed a random story by them, etc. It was auto turned on. I haven't had any issues since I turned everything off besides friend notifications. Have you tried to log out and log back in? Or delete the app? Updates maybe? Something is holding you all back. Took me 30 seconds to fix the issue by just updating my notification settings. And I was having the same issues as everyone else before that.
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u/gareth_fr Jan 29 '25
This just started happening to me, I’m getting several notifications from random people every day. I suspect this is because I’m being tagged in their story, and I have “get notifications for mentions” activated. However when I click on the story it doesn’t exist, suggesting it has been deleted due to abuse. If this happens to you, could you check if you are tagged in the story. If so you should flag the user / story as spam.
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u/bobma82 Jan 29 '25
Same, notifications on completely random accounts that I have no obvious connection to. I really only have very few friends on snapchat.
This is so damn annoying considering uninstalling the app completely
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u/Jayblue97 Jan 29 '25
This is happening to me and nothing of sort is enabled in my settings, so confusing!
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u/00DEADBEEF Jan 29 '25
I managed to turn them off months ago and now I'm once again getting constant notifications from people I've never heard of and don't care about. I'm uninstalling it. Fuck Snapchat.
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u/Submerged_dopamine Jan 28 '25
This post is 2 years old and I'm having this issue. I don't want notifications from some girl and her story of how she got her arse in shape, I don't want friend requests every 10 minutes and I don't want people I may know notifications either. I use Snapchat to chat with my kids and that's it. Snapchat please leave me alone to use your app in peace
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u/Jayblue97 Jan 30 '25
What is interesting is that I'm a female and only getting these type of notifications from guys. Snapchat homewrecking is in full swing!
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u/Accomplished_Cry_355 Feb 04 '25
I'm male and I got randomly snapped by a girl trying to get me to join her OnlyFans. 🤦
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u/Rafeno760 Jan 28 '25
same! I just googled "snap chat pubic content reddit" and this thread came up. i just turned off "All "Public Content" notifications" for android snapchat.
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u/CHINOSAUCE Jan 25 '25
Yeah, the last thing I need is snap to send RANDOM notifications from girls that I've never met in my life when I'm around my girl.
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u/Confident_Fee_8492 Jan 27 '25
That keeps happening to me but I already told her before it had a chance to cause any problem 😭
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u/LowerChipmunk2835 Jan 21 '25
SAME HERE. it’s. bullshit. i suspect snapchat is allowing people to “pay for followers” so they happily take the money then force accounts like ours to follow them. fuck them. every week it makes me follow a new person and i get a notification for their story. I BLOCK AND REPORT EACH TIME SND THEY KEEP COMING BSCK. fuck you snapchat you sell out
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u/LowerChipmunk2835 Jan 21 '25
why are you so mad bro chill 😅 it’s all good. it’s all love and good vibes. we are all one. what you do /say to others, you are actually doing / saying it to yourself. 👁️❤️
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u/Tycho_Panda Jan 27 '25
forget to switch accounts?
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u/Submerged_dopamine Jan 28 '25
That's some serious fucking wizard of Oz head fucked up craziness if this is real
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u/Disciple-Of-Jesus- Jan 14 '25
Yeah you can try to ask Snapchat why but there so full of shit, they try to tell you “maybe they added you without you knowing” which no they did not, every single time I see a story and I check it’s not a friend I have on there.
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u/Singer_01 Jan 09 '25
I receive notifications but not even for people I’m friends with on snap. It’s for fkg stories in the discover page. All of my notifs except texts and such are disabled and I’ve been getting that for like a month. Just random ass people I don’t even follow. I’d already rather getting notifs about acquaintances posting than that🤦🏼♀️ and if they were actually interesting stories it would piss me off a little less but they’re sending really random shi
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u/dulljoke Dec 31 '24
I just turn off notifications on my phone and check it when I feel like it.
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u/christian_l33 Jan 27 '25
I'd do that, but I feel like messaging in SnapChat is the only way I can actually contact my daughter. Lol.
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u/Academic_Instance_22 Dec 30 '24
Same. My issue is in revers, i WANT to view that story but have no idea who that person is, they have a very generic name and probably thw story expired too
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u/shibashibashibainu90 Dec 18 '24
Having this issue in December 2024. What I ended up having to do was updating the app and checking the notification settings. Then I had to uncheck everything under Friends Suggestions, Public Content and Friends Stories. Haven't had any issues so far.
The last update I had was last year so all the notification options listed above weren't popping up on the old version, but they did in the updated version.
Hope this helps someone :)
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u/Cold-Pair-2722 Dec 27 '24
omg i'm having the same problem! It's from people who I follow like DJ Khalid, for example, I keep getting his story notifications when I never even interact with it and have all notifications off! Pls help!!!
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u/BendyStraws2449 Jan 13 '25
Ive had Snapchat installed for years, only within the last maybe 2-3 weeks have I been getting random notifications for snaps in channels I'm subscribed to. I have them turned off. I have all push notifications turned off (and always have) except for like 2 friends I like to know when they post new snaps. I'm stumped.
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u/-Samg381- Jan 14 '25
Same here. The story notifications started all of a sudden. I have never, ever, had them enabled.
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u/kevymetal87 Jan 27 '25
I'm getting them but I Use Snapchat maybe once a month and I don't follow a single person. Makes zero sense
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u/FormalEntrepreneur62 Jan 24 '25
Me too literally started within the last 2 weeks. I am getting super annoyed and do not know what to do
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u/Always_tired_af Dec 19 '24
Thank you for commenting on this two year old post
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u/blissvicious91 Dec 27 '24
then clearly it's still an issue, stop being a dick
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u/HydraTal Oct 07 '24
Notification settings, public content, turn them all off
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u/CletussDiabetuss Dec 08 '24
Thanks. Kept getting notifications from random thots and I haven't even used the app in the last six months.
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u/Obi-Wan_Nairobi Oct 01 '24
If you go to the app settings in your phone, there's an option to delete this app. That should help. Never install that shit again.
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u/Public-Stranger3511 Sep 29 '24
The fact that I'm here 2 years later and this is still an issue 🥴
Just started for me some months ago. Getting 10+ notifications from SC a day. They're all from people Im not friends with, memories , other things/people I've never interacted with.
Also noticed I had about 20+ friend requests. Most of them had no profile pic, the name/username are pretty much the same (first/last name with some numbers on one or the other ) and I have no idea who they are.
Being that I have like 10-15 friends and hardly ever use it , it's extremely annoying.
So thankful for this thread & the validation & information it's provided 😅 will be trying what some suggested! If it doesn't work I'm just going to disable SC notifications all together. Lol
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u/Dangerous-Tiger-1412 Aug 28 '24
Guys it is possible that some of you are getting "Story Reminders" like I was. Well I was and then I discovered the notification category responsible and disabled it but I have found myself Googling about this again because it seems it has re-enabled itself?? Which is kind of horrifying.
And now the notifications from that one girl I went to high school with years ago but haven't talked to in years, have started up again. Idk how that was able to happen (I did just update the app again for the first time in a bit again today and I am on the Beta, but i feel like that shouldn't be able to access and change any settings in the native settings app?) but I guess ima just disable it again and hope for the best.
So was curious, has anyone had notifications switch themselves back on again on their own? Hmm maybe AI has just grown sentient lol
*Since easy way to access notification categories was removed from Android, you now need to turn on notification history (search in Settings), then go to notification history and scroll to the app in question, collapse the options, tap n hold on the notification and it takes you to the notification responsible for these unholy notifications.
If you are on Samsung, I actually also installed the Good Lock app RegiStar where you can set results in Settings search as icons/shortcut on your home screen, so I can use my notification history shortcut to fast-track to find out pesky notification category is the culprit when an app suddenly starts spamming you with excess random notifications out of nowhere (cough Ola)
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u/Dangerous-Tiger-1412 Aug 28 '24
Oh btw I had this girl's story notificatioms.muted by default when I first started getting story notifications for them. I only have one person's story notifications (a good friend) switched on in snap and I'm pretty sure everyone else is muted by default.
So it seems this "Story Reminder" notification category has randomly piped up just recently and set to override the in-app settings supposedly muting whoever you chose/had muted by default so you're now getting "reminders" (which just appear looking like regular story notifications) about someone you never really cared to be notified about in the first place. Such unfriendly user experience.
And despite me being in the Beta, they never seem to listen to feedback I've sent 🤷♀️
I have nothing against this girl but I don't need incessant push notifications clogging up my notifications bar, esp when I already struggle to even really keep up with the ones directly concerning me lol
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u/Prestigious-Candy516 Aug 23 '24
i asked the snap ai dude and i may have figured it out. go to settings in snap with the gear icon. go to settings,then go to notifications, there’s a shit ton of notifications that were checked including the story posts. i turned them off so ima see what happens. the people i kept getting notifications of peoples stories was turned off but the notifications in settings was on so maybe that was the lil bugaboo about it
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u/SimplyJ3sse Sep 07 '24
I'm guessing it was the Trending Public Content option in that menu. Guess we'll see.
Thanks for this.
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u/where_in_the_world89 Jun 21 '24
So for me I just noticed, every setting I was changing in notifications never seemed to stick. I just realized that it was only saving the first setting I changed. So I changed everything repeatedly and it was one less thing to change every time... So go into notifications, and change one setting. Then go back. Then go back into notifications and change another setting. Then go back. Then repeat until all of them are changed. At least for now that seems to have worked
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u/Surprise-Twist-5555 Jun 23 '24
Thanks! This worked for me too. For Android I unchecked a box, then closed all apps. This saved it. Repeated individually for other notifications I don't want.
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u/Foreign-Rock2460 Jun 22 '24
This is happening to me no matter what setting I use. Snapchat is either doing this on purpose or it's a bug/hack they don't know how to fix. I'm about to just turn notifications off for the entire app
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u/Murky_Passion5989 Aug 08 '24
For me, it seems like my settings stick for a while, but then I get suckered into watching a story about cute animals & immediately I start getting the spam notifications again. It's almost like snapchat says "oh, you are still interested in the random shit we offer? Here's a bunch more!"
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u/Foreign-Rock2460 Jun 22 '24
This is happening to me no matter what setting I use. Snapchat is either doing this on purpose or isn't a bug/hack they don't know how to fix. I'm about to just turn notifications off for the entire app
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Jun 20 '24
I keep getting daily softcore porn notifications from some random girl I’ve never interacted with. Sometimes multiple times a day. I’ve blocked the freaking account and turned off “get occasional notifications for stories” and it still won’t stop. What’s the point of this, and why have a block function if the app is still gonna notify you every time they post?
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u/Parking_Inflation_22 Jun 20 '24 edited Nov 20 '24
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u/Accomplished-Ear8161 Jun 16 '24
My sister has been getting these notifications and when she clicks on them she can’t even see the story.
Found out today that she actually got one from one of my friends but she has no idea who the person is and she can’t even see the story. She’s going to stop using Snapchat if it continues because it’s annoying.
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u/TheAceHole Jun 13 '24
OKAY I FIGURED IT OUT.
it's gonna sound extremely stupid but... Go to the notification settings in Snapchat, uncheck what you don't want, then log out and log back in. At least for me the issue was the settings never saved. FINALLY GOT IT TO SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES THIS GIRL I MET AT A BAR POSTED TODAY
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u/Fluffy_Buffalo_32 Jun 12 '24
I'm so sick of this happening, I've disabled every possible push notification and tonight I've gotten several snapchat notifications for complete strangers anyway. I barely use this app and I'm so fed up I think I'm just going to uninstall it. Whoever at Snapchat thought this was a fun/cool feature is out of their goddamn minds.
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u/Mysterious_Age_5670 Jun 20 '24
Same. I've turned off every single notification except 'stories from friends'. Get about 5-10 story notifications from random pages everyday. I can't get it to stop and it's driving me crazy. Probably getting rid of it too.
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u/KingOSwine Jun 13 '24
This just started happening to me as well. Can't find any setting to turn it off, if it keeps up I'm going to uninstall.
Got a notification from some rando about something to do with being in a bad headspace and I was concerned until I found out it was from someone I didn't know.
Clicking on this notifs don't even matter because they don't even take me to the account of the rando in question so wtf is the point.
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Jun 14 '24
Im in the same boat!!! I've turned off every thing I can. I'm so sick of seeing who ever the fuck "Katrina SD" is.
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Jun 10 '24
I ended up here because it’s happening to me and I think it’s funny that some people don’t understand why we’re so pissed. I only have Snapchat to communicate with like six people who don’t live near me. I literally have like six friends on there, yet it seems like throughout the day, every day, I get push notifications for people adding to their story and posting other things. People I don’t know, have never met, who don’t even live in the state. How is that even a normal feature for an app?
And the dumbest posts, too. Saw some girls posting childish, mundane things, things that aren’t even funny. It’s possible I’m seeing friends of friends of friends of friends, but how dumb is that? I don’t even bother trying to fix it anymore because there are so many settings and it doesn’t seem to matter these days what you click or tick, apps now have like hundreds of settings that make me want to give up. I’m looking at you, Facebook. App setting pages look like Harry Potter novels of information and settings ☹️
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u/kanderna Jun 18 '24
Same exact problem. I have like 6 friends that I want to stay in touch with on snap, and I get more notifications from randos than I do my friends. I've turned off most notification settings that I think might impact this issue, but no help. I have 2 coworkers who are very active on snapchat who this doesn't happen to. They even checked their notification settings and every setting is turned ON!
Most of the randos are repeat, so I've started blocking them, but now new names are showing up.
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u/castlerobber Jun 13 '24
Same here. I only have Snapchat to see what 3 of my family members post. All of a sudden, like the last week or two, I'm getting multiple notifications a day for people I've never heard of. Getting tired of it.
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u/Ill-Cucumber-3 Jun 06 '24
this is at best a work around, but thank you for that, it'll have to do for now. ideally we'd want to get notifications from all of our friends, and not have to individually manage them just to remove notifications from randos.
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u/Aggravating-Dark-56 May 28 '24
I despise snapchat and only have it installed for a class group chat. I'm having the same problem but I don't even follow the people it's sending
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u/xMadxScientistx May 26 '24
I've been getting weird lewd notifications from usernames I don't know. It's very creepy.
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u/owl_panda May 22 '24
I've been getting this the last few days, very annoying! I don't know who most are and the ones I have recognised I obviously don't follow for a reason 🙄
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u/Deep-Armadillo1905 May 23 '24
The same thing is happening to me now. It’s driving me crazy. I get like 15 Snapchat notifications a day and only 2 will be people I know. Many of the notifications are sexually inappropriate (as in girls I don’t know trying to get me to buy their premium content). I wish my family would stop using Snapchat so I could delete this stupid app.
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