How to manage your Insight Timer notifications
You have complete control over which notifications you receive from Insight Timer. The app lets you customize alerts for messages, groups, teachers, and general encouragement, so you get the notifications that matter to you and silence the rest. Here's how to adjust your notification settings across different types of alerts.
Messages and general notifications
Control general notification alerts that let you know about messages, app updates, and other platform announcements. To turn these notifications on or off:
- Open the Insight Timer app.
- Tap the menu icon (☰) in the top-left corner of the screen.
- Tap Settings.
- Select Encouragement & Notifications from the menu.
- Under the Notifications section, toggle your preferred alerts on or off. You can control notifications individually based on your preferences.
This settings section controls most of the general notifications you receive from the Insight Timer platform, including messages and app notifications.
Group notifications
If you're part of groups on Insight Timer, you can manage whether you receive notifications when group members share content or when events happen in those groups. To adjust group notification settings:
- Open the Insight Timer app.
- Tap the menu icon (☰) in the top-left corner.
- Tap Settings.
- Select Encouragement & Notifications.
- Tap Groups and adjust your notification preferences for each group you've joined.
This approach lets you stay connected to groups that matter to you while muting notifications from groups you're less interested in.
New content from teachers you follow
Insight Timer can notify you whenever teachers you follow publish new meditations, courses, or other content. To control whether you receive these notifications from individual teachers:
- Open the profile of a teacher you follow.
- Tap the three dots (⋯) icon above the Donate button.
- Toggle Receive notifications from teacher on or off based on your preference.
You can manage this setting for each teacher individually, so you can get notifications from your favorite teachers while staying quiet about others.
Messages from a friend
If you're in active message conversations with friends on Insight Timer, you can choose to mute notifications from specific conversations while keeping messages visible in your inbox. To mute notifications from a particular conversation:
- Tap the menu icon (☰) in the top-left corner.
- Tap Messages to open your message threads.
- Open the conversation thread you want to manage.
- Tap the three dots (⋯) to open more options.
- Toggle Mute notifications on or off as desired.
Muting conversation notifications is helpful when you want to keep a thread available but don't need constant alerts from it.
Turn off all Insight Timer notifications
To completely disable all notifications from Insight Timer at once, you can turn off notifications in your device's system settings. Navigate to your phone's Settings > Notifications > Insight Timer and toggle off all notifications. This approach works at the operating system level and will silence all app alerts regardless of your in-app settings. This is the most straightforward way to silence the app entirely if you prefer to check it on your own schedule.