Can't change notification sounds for some apps

[Gallopinhairpin]

Hi, having just bought a S22 running Android 13 I can't seem to find any way to change the notification sounds of some of the apps. I've tried all manner of ways to search through notification settings but sounds aren't listed. I downloaded the Samsung User Guide and also the Manual for the S22 family onto my PC but neither have been any help.

 

[Dannydet]

Install Zedge from the play store and have any sound you like

 

[Gallopinhairpin]

Thanks, but I've now sussed out how to do it. It's not, by any stretch of the imagination, intuitive and I found it on another forum after a web search.

I really don't understand the reasoning behind burying these settings so deeply. I also don't understand why they dont keep legacy sounds. I would really like my old ones on this phone.

 

[Alex76976987698]

Thanks, but I've now sussed out how to do it. It's not, by any stretch of the imagination, intuitive and I found it on another forum after a web search.

I really don't understand the reasoning behind burying these settings so deeply. I also don't understand why they dont keep legacy sounds. I would really like my old ones on this phone.

I am facing the same problem on S23 Ultra. Need to a setup a custom notification sound for a specific Gmail account in Gmail App, but only getting list of "internal" sounds to select from. There is no PLUS button to select a custom file in the APP notifications settings. There is a PLUS button for phone ringtones and notification, but that's not what I need. How did you resolve it?

 

[Alex76976987698]

In case anyone would wonder the same, you need to move your custom sound file to an android hidden Notifications directory, similar to that on the attached screenshot. Create a folder with the file name and move the file there. Then you will see your custom sound file under the APP notification sounds.

 

[Gallopinhairpin]

I haven't resolved getting any legacy or other non-embedded sounds and have given up on it, for now at least.

 

[mikedt]

I thought user installed apps that do notifications, the sound options might be done within the app's own settings. Like with WhatsApp...where it's only this app has "Guitar" as a notification sound on my Samsung.

 

[Gallopinhairpin]

I was able to do it within WhatsApp easily enough but I had trouble finding a way to do it in K9mail that I'd installed and Messages that came pre-installed. As I said above I eventually succeeded from within App Manager using the info I got from another forum.

Obviously not all user installed 3rd-party apps make it as easy as WhatsApp.

 

[mikedt]

I was able to do it within WhatsApp easily enough but I had trouble finding a way to do it in K9mail that I'd installed and Messages that came pre-installed. As I said above I eventually succeeded from within App Manager using the info I got from another forum.

Obviously not all user installed 3rd-party apps make it as easy as WhatsApp.

WeChat and Telegram makes it easy as well. Although for my uses those are the only user installed apps I want making notification sounds, all other non-system third-party apps I have muted.