How to hide Bumble notifications on Android

Bumble’s notification kinds

On our test phone, Bumble registered these kinds (Android calls them notification categories):

• New messages
• New matches
• New likes
• Expiring matches
• Video calls
• Profile tips
• Events
• Surveys
• Marketing
• System messages
• Other

Checked in October 2026. Bumble loads most of these names from its own servers, so on your phone the wording may differ a little and appears in your phone’s language. Bumble can also add kinds with updates.

Two groups matter: the personal ones (messages, matches, likes, expiring matches) that reveal you’re dating, and the noise (profile tips, events, surveys, marketing) that nobody needs on the lock screen.

Option 1: Android’s own settings

1. Open Settings → Apps → Bumble → Notifications. (Faster: press and hold a Bumble notification and tap the gear icon.)
2. Switch off the kinds you don’t want.

Good for the noise – marketing and surveys can go for good. For the personal kinds it’s a trade-off:

• Switched off means not delivered at all. You only notice a new match when you open Bumble – and matches on Bumble can expire.
• No quick switch. Turning them back on for the evening means the same menu again.
• The lock screen setting is for all apps – and once the phone is unlocked, everything shows.

Option 2: hide them with Removication

1. Install Removication and allow Notification Access. The content stays on your phone.
2. In Choose an app, pick Bumble.
3. Tap Bumble in your set and choose Everything from this app, Hide only certain ones or Let only certain ones through – then tick the kinds.
4. Switch hiding on – in the app, with the home-screen widget or the Quick Settings tile. Or give the set a time window, e.g. weekdays 9 to 5.
5. Read what was hidden in Notification Catcher. Tapping an entry opens Bumble.

Kinds appear once Bumble has used them. Android doesn’t let other apps read Bumble’s list in advance, so Removication learns each kind from its first notification. To be covered from the start, choose Let only certain ones through: everything is hidden – including kinds not seen yet – except what you tick.

Setups that work well

Prefer to see that *something* arrived, but not what? Set the set’s action to Censor: a neutral “1 new notification” with an envelope icon replaces it – no Bumble name, no sender, no text.

Good to know

• Calls always ring through, including internet calls – a Bumble video call may still show.
• The censored stand-in says “Removication”, because Android always names the app that posts a notification. Choose “Hide” if that’s too much.
• Anyone who opens Removication can read the Catcher – unless you set the four-digit app lock (Premium).

More on keeping dating apps private: Dating app privacy on Android.

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