Galaxy S6 Guide

How to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge?

Learn about the 3 sound modes in Samsung Galaxy S6 and how to silence Samsung Galaxy S6, how to silence Sasmung Galaxy S6 ringer, how to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 app notifications, and keyboard

Sometimes, unexpected sound or vibration from your Galaxy S6 may be annoying or embarrassing, e.g., when in an important meeting.  This guide will show you how to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge.

This guide works for both Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, although  in the text, we often just use Galaxy S6.

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1) 1. What are the 3 sound modes in Samsung Galaxy S6?
1.1) Method 1: from Settings app.
1.2) Method 2: from notification panel (quick settings)
2) 2. How to silence annoying tapping sound and vibrate on Samsung Galaxy S6?
3) 3. How to silence ringer on Samsung Galaxy S6?
3.1) Method 1: Enter vibrate mode or mute mode to silence Samsung Galaxy S6, including ringer.
3.2) Method 2: Put your palm over the screen or turn the phone over to mute ringer on Samsung Galaxy S6.
3.3) Method 3: Use Do Not Disturb to selectively silence Samsung Galaxy S6, including ringer.
4) 4. How to silence notifications on Samsung Galaxy S6?
5) 5. How to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 keyboard?
6) 6. Where is priority mode in Samsung Galaxy S6?
6.1) Can you silence Samsung Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge now?

1. What are the 3 sound modes in Samsung Galaxy S6?

Unlike other Android Lollipop devices, Samsung Galaxy S6 still uses the old 3 sound modes, instead of the new Android Lollipop notification and interruption system.

Some Galaxy S6 owners may like it; some may hate it.

The 3 sound modes are:

  1. Sound mode. This is the default. All sounds will be played. All vibrate will be allowed.
  2. Vibrate mode. System sound is turned off. Vibrate is allowed.
  3. Mute mode (aka silent mode). Sound and vibrate are all turned off except for alarms. But some settings or apps do not follow this setting.

There are two ways to change the sound modes in Samsung Galaxy S6: from Settings or from Galaxy S6 Notification panel  (quick settings).

Method 1: from Settings app.

In Settings—Sound and notifications, tap Sound mode as shown below.

Then you can choose from the three galaxy S6 sound modes: sound, vibrate or mute as shown below.

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Method 2: from notification panel (quick settings)

Another way to access and change Galaxy S6 sound mode is from Quick settings in the notification panel.

Swipe down from the top of the screen (status bar) to get notification panel. In the quick setting part, you can tap the icon as shown below to cycle through the 3 modes: Mute–>Sound–>Vibrate–>Mute.

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2. How to silence annoying tapping sound  and vibrate on Samsung Galaxy S6?

By default, when you tap the screen, there is a tapping sound. Haptic feedback (vibrate) is also turned on by default in Samsung Galaxy S6.

You can silence these annoying tapping sound and haptic feedback without going into mute mode or vibrate mode.

In Settings—Sound and notifications, tap Ringtones and sounds.  In the Ringtones and sounds page as shown below, you can drag the switch to left to silence the following sounds  in Galaxy S6 individually:

  • Touch sounds;
  • Dialing keypad tone;
  • Screen lock sounds;
  • Keyboard sound.

Similarly, to turn off or silence the vibrate on Galaxy S6, you can go to Settings—Sound and notifications —Vibrations.

In the Vibrations page as shown below, you can silence the following vibrates individually:

  • Vibrate when ringing;
  • Vibrate feedback;
  • Keyboard vibration.

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3. How to silence ringer on Samsung Galaxy S6?

There are a few ways to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 ringer.

Method 1:  Enter vibrate mode or mute mode  to silence Samsung Galaxy S6, including ringer.

Method 2: Put your palm over the screen or turn the phone over to mute ringer on Samsung Galaxy S6.

If you want to quickly stop/silence the ringer, you can use your palm to cover the S6 screen, or turn Galaxy S6 over (i.e., make screen face downwards).

You need turn on this feature in Settings—Motions and gestures a shown below.

Method 3: Use Do Not Disturb to selectively silence Samsung Galaxy S6, including ringer.

Samsung introduced do not disturb in Galaxy S6 and S6 edge. This is similar to the old blocking mode, and the Downtime in Android Lollipop.

You can turn on Do not disturb in Settings—Sound and notifications — Do not disturb as shown below.

Actually, there are lot of customizations for Do Not Disturb feature. You can configure it to silence Samsung Galaxy S6, including the ringer.

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4. How to silence notifications on Samsung Galaxy S6?

You can turn on mute mode to silence Samsung Galaxy S6, including notifications.

But if you want to only silence notifications on Samsung Galaxy S6, not the ringer or alarms, you can simply set the default notification tones as silent as shown below.

In Settings—Sound and notifications—Ringtones and sounds, tap Default notification sound as shown below.

Then choose Silent as shown below as the default notification sound.

In this way, you will silence notifications, but not block notifications.

Some apps and some contacts can have customized notification tones, so you can use this method to  allow some notification tones to pass through. Please refer to this guide (coming soon) on how to customize Samsung Galaxy S6 notification tones.

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If you want to block notifications from certain apps, not just silence the notification tone, you can set it in App notifications.

In Settings—Sounds and notifications, tap App notifications as shown below.

Then tap the app, for example, Chrome for Android.

For each app, in Samsung Galaxy S6, there are three notification options:

  • Block notifications.  This essentially blocks all notifications from this app, not just silence it. It is useful if some apps try to spam you.
  • Set as priority. As Samsung Galaxy S6 does not have Priority mode for Android Lollipop, this option is only used for Do Not Disturb. If you set the app notification as priority, notifications may pass through when Do Not Disturb is activated.
  • No special settings. If neither of the above two is activated, this app will follow the system settings.

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5. How to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 keyboard?

If you need silence Samsung Galaxy S6 keyboard, you can go to Settings—Language and input, tap Samsung keyboard.

In Samsung keyboard page, under key-tap feedback, as shown above, you can turn on/off sound and vibration individually.

 6. Where is priority mode in Samsung Galaxy S6?

One of the new features of Android Lollipop is the new notification and interruption systems. And you may heard about the Priority mode in Android Lollipop.

Unfortunately, Samsung Galaxy S6 does not implement the new notification system (see this post on this Samsung Galaxy S6 defect).

So, there is no Priority mode in Samsung Galaxy S6. Part of the Priority mode settings can be found in Do not disturb feature in Galaxy S6.

Can you silence Samsung  Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge now?

Please let us know in the comment box below, if you have any questions or encounter any problems on how to silence Samsung  Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge, how to silence app notifications on Samsung Galaxy S6, or how to silence Samsung Galaxy S6 keyboard.

We will try to help you.

For other features of Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 online manual page.

For detailed guides on how to use Samsung Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 how-to guides page.

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  4. Mikey Wynne says

    Need to silence with volume button press. wtf. If the phone is in my pocket and I’m in a conversation I have to take it out, open it up and swipe or reject the call to end the sound. That’s stupid. I should just be able to click the button from outside my pants.

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  7. rmc says

    not the app itself…the phone…s6…when I had s5…and I receive a viber or wechat call…I always hit the power button and had the option to “silence” ALL incoming notifications from ALL apps. When you press the power button on the s6…this option is no longer available. So when I’m video chatting or calling on Viber..wechat…I can still hear all incoming notifications from texts…emails…and other apps.

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  8. rmc says

    once i get a call from viber or wechat…you are unable to access quick settings due to the app itself being activated

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  9. DJH says

    My phone us set to do not disturb while I am sleeping, however I am still being woken by Facebook notification sounds…. I dont want to turn the notifications off completely as I need them during the day

    Any help

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  11. Steph says

    Is there any way to have sound but not vibrate without turning all vibrate functionality off? I dislike vibrate when my phone is on my desk or other surface at home because it makes a horrible buzzing sound, but I still want to be notified via sound of messages and calls. However, when I am in a lecture at university and my phone is in my pocket, I just want it to be on vibrate without any sounds. I know my old iphone used to do this – it had the option of sound and vibrate, just sound, just vibrate, or complete silence – all of which you could quickly swap between. Is there any way to achieve this in the S6? At the moment it’s bugging me a fair bit.

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  12. Simone says

    Hello, I noticed that I did not receive a response to the question I posted on June 15, 2015. For a few weeks I was able to set my volume to vibrate using the volume key while the screen was locked. I can no longer do this. Please advise.

    Thanks.

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  13. Jan Janssens says

    When I set my S6 to vibrate mode and then make a phone call he automatically goes back to sound mode. Why?

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  15. Greg stroz says

    Even in mute mode, media sounds is still on. So if you accidentally tap the Google search microphone it beeps. How to silence that along with ringtone and notification in one step?

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  16. Moe says

    Is it possible to turn off the call connect tone? I don’t seem to have any settings for Call Alerts under settings or even from with the phone app (more -> Settings etc…) please help as this is doing my head in!

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  17. CJ says

    How do you mute media sound (when playing a game, movie, etc.) when I get a phone call? Right now when I answer a call the media sound continues to play so you have to listen to both the person your talking to and media. Very frustrating!

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  18. David says

    Thanks for your help on this. Is there a way to customise the led colours and when it lights us? I know of the one on/off setting under Sounds and notifications but there is no customisation there.

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  19. Mary says

    When I have vibrate mode set, why are notifications set to mute? I would like vibrate for calls and notifications. Any way to set this up?

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  20. sparecake says

    My last for was an S3, and when you had it on do not disturb, the notification light didn’t flash. With the S6, it does. – Any way to turn off the light, just when do not disturb is on?

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  21. anita says

    Hi, how do I switch off the constant ping on my phone? When I receive an email or sms my S6 will notify me until I open the message. I’d like to make it notify me only once. Please help urgently

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  22. Blind Avenger says

    I just thought I would relate my experience today. I turned off touch sounds, but they did not go away. I tried going to the power off screen and restarting the phone via the restart button The sounds were disabled until I unlocked the screen a second time. Before wcommenting on this post, I tried turning the phone off completely and turning it back on. This seems to be the

    I am relating today’s experience just in case someone else needs to know. I disabled Touch Sounds this morning. They did not stop. A web search led me to this guide. Sure enough, I took the right steps. I was about to comment and ask where I went wrong. But first, I decided to restart the S6 via the Restart option on the Power Off screen. I though I had achieved victory. the sounds were gone, until I unlocked the screen for the second time. I made one last ditch effort. I turned S6 off completely. With S6 on again and several screen locks and unlocks, the sounds appear to be gone.

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  23. Blind Avenger says

    I want to start by apologizing for the sloppiness of my original post. I am blind and use screen reading software. The screen reader did not indicate text was being entered into the Comment field, so I tabbed away, returned, and began again. I did not realize what had happened until the comment was posted. I would have done something right away, but I had to go. I am truly sorry.
    Shortly after posting, I received a notification and the sounds were back. I was annoyed and asked my husband to confirm the Touch Sounds switch was in the off position. It was. After some experimenting, I learned the sounds were not Touch Sounds. They were Sound Feedback from Voice Assistant. This is Samsung’s version of Google’s Talk Back screen reading app. I assumed the sounds were Touch Sounds, because I Silenced Sound Feedback as soon as I got the phone. Apparently it did not take until I turned it on and off again.
    Please forgive me for the untidy post and any confusion it might have caused.

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  24. Steve J says

    When i turn on my Galaxy S5, there is annoying start-up “music”/sound. Can i turn that off?

    I hope so

    thanks Steve j

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  25. Bill Waller. says

    I’d like to silence the notifications for email & calendar but keep the sound notifications on for text messages. I haven’t figured out how to do that for my new S6 edge +.
    Is it possible?
    Thx.

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  26. John says

    How do we silence continuous notification from alert display bar (i.e. WhatsApp, Emails, etc.). For example, if I receive a WhatsApp or email notification and I do not have time at that moment to review the said message, my cell continuously beeps until I actually review the message and/or clear the display screen. I do not mind having the initial notification notice, but I do not want it to continuously notify (i.e. beep) me until I review and clear the display screen. It appears the display screen has to be cleared in all occasions. Thanks for your assistance

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  27. John says

    Thank you for the assistance. I still would like to receive notification of a message (i.e. WhatsApp, Email, Text, etc.) As was done before last week, I would get the sound notification once and it would be silent after that with the message being noted on my display screen. Now, it provides the sound notification every 5 – 10 seconds until I clear the message from my display screen.

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  30. Ayat says

    Hi, Just got a new Samsung S6. My questions is, is it possible to have the notification sound only once and not removing it totally. The reason why I am asking is, when I get a whatsapp message, sms, FB or email, I don’t have time to look at it or will like to open it. The only way around it is to either put the app in soundless or swipe it off the notifications to make the sound disappear.

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  31. Ricky says

    how do I remove notification after sending a message?…hearing notification in receiving a message is acceptable but sending a message to hear again the notification I guess it’s not necessary and that is what I want to know. Can you help me on this? By the way my mobile is S6 edge…thank you.

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  35. kmiltenburg says

    hi Simon,

    Is there a way to disable the vibration on notifications of certain apps?
    For example, i have a game installed (boom beach), which will give notifications. I do not want those to vibrate. However, i do want whatsapp to vibrate whenever I get a message from someone.

    Hope you can help!

    Cheers

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  36. Justine says

    I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 – my problems with it are when I pull the icons down i.e. the sound icon which if you tap once puts it onto vibrate only if you tap again it sends it to mute. However it will not turn off vibrate and any messages it will still vibrate.
    I also have it on notification repeat, I set it at intervals of 1 minute and works when it wants to.
    The camera also comes on when it wants to.
    Any advice?

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  37. Zenda says

    Using my hand to mute my phone, or flipping it over, used to work just fine on my Note 5. After I started using the Samsung themes that are included with the phone, the feature stopped working. I did check to make sure that the Mute function is turned on in Motions and Gestures. What can I do to so get this working for me again?

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  38. M says

    Original question not answered. How to silence beeps when adjusting volume on galaxy s6. Of all things when need to be super quiet this one beeps ea time. Cannot find solution from anyone but to find different brand phone. That’s next.

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  39. dave says

    I don’t think Samsung realized how poorly the mute feature works. using the mute in the quick menu does not mute notifications. it takes several clicks to get to it. this is unacceptable, and the physical mute feature apple has is starting to make me think I may go back to apple – for some people sound on sound off is a huge deal and an errant sound can be a major problem.

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  40. Kristen says

    With this new update, my phone beeps when i don’t open text messages or emails etc. How do i turn this off. I put it on silent and now it vibrates instead of and actual sound. Very annoying.

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  41. Dee says

    Is.there no single button to shut up EVERY SINGLE sound on the S6? Whatever I try and something else will let wake me up or wake someone else up because it’s not off

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