Change default Message Notification sound on Android 2024
I recently got the new Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. While setting up my new phone, I wanted to set a default notification sound for the Messages app.After doing a lot of searching online, I only found instructions that were outdated and not applicable to the current version of the Message app as of Feb, 2024.I did some digging in the setting and I finally found out how to do it. It is very unintuitive, but here is what I found.
- Open the system settings screen.
- Click on Notifications.
- Click on Advanced Settings
- Scroll to the bottom of that page and enable “Manage notification categories for each app
- Go back to your home screen and run the Message App
- Click on your profile picture and select “Messages Settings
- Click on Notifications
- Click on “Behaviour, sound & more”
- At the bottom of that page, click on “Notification categories”
- Make sure Incoming messages is enabled then click on it to change it settings.
- Click on the Sound option to select the Notification sound.
- Back all the way out to the home screen and you are done.