# Android 10 Your Scanning Settings Notification. Is this important? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 30, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898 "2019-07-30T21:13:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/1 "2019-07-30T21:13:15Z")
\*Every single day \*my phone chirps with a notification. I automatically reach for my phone, thinking I have a text. Your Scanning Settings Wi-FI and Bluetooth are on. Your device may scan for Wi-Fi networks and near by devices at any time. Even when Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is off. Well so what? I never got this notification before upgrading to Android 10. There’s no recommended action. Just this daily notification. What could I do anyhow? The message says turned off devices are still scanned. I can disable the notification. But is there an important reason Google felt the need to disrupt my life with this daily notification? AFAIK Wi-FI only auto connects to know networks that I’ve used before. For example, at my mom’s house. I’ve connected and entered the password. Now my phone connects anytime I visit. That’s very convenient and useful. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/2 "2019-07-30T21:21:29Z")
I have to be careful disabling Notifications. It may turn off all system notifications. I shut off Chrome notifications because several web sites were bugging me. I couldn’t just shut off one web site. The setting shut off all notifications from Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/3 "2019-07-30T21:23:59Z")
You can turn off the scanning. I’ve never had that alert on mine, and checking, I see I have scanning on, but it’s never alerted me to anything, be it just letting me know it’s happening or that it found something. Go to your settings and turn off “nearby device scanning”, see if that stops it. Or, just disable the notification. I have a feeling that the notification was just meant as a one time thing to let you know that it can, and is, doing this, but if you dismiss it, it’ll pop back up later. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/4 "2019-07-30T21:25:12Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I have to be careful disabling Notifications. It may turn off all system notifications. > > I shut off Chrome notifications because several web sites were bugging me. I couldn’t just shut off one web site. The setting shut off all notifications from Chrome. Shutting nearby device scanning notifications won’t shut all notifications off. All the notifications from Chrome got shut off at the same time because you shut off notifications from Chrome, you told that specific app to stop nagging you, which it did. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/5 "2019-07-31T16:53:20Z")
I searched Setup for scanning. All I found is an option to turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth . Nothing else. This is a Sony Xperia I bought for my mom. It’s running Android 9. Security Patch Level June 1, 2019. I bought a Nokia 7.1 for myself a couple weeks ago that runs Android 10. I haven’t moved my Simm Card to it yet. I’ll just kill the scanning notification. I’m tired of it constantly pinging my phone and I can’t find any reason that it’s an important notification. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/6 "2019-07-31T18:15:23Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I bought a Nokia 7.1 for myself a couple weeks ago that runs Android 10. You bought a phone with a beta version of an unreleased OS? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/7 "2019-07-31T18:54:33Z")
Go to settings. Notifications and alerts or Sounds. Turn the volume off. It’s a slider. Slide it all the way to the left. It will notify you but you won’t hear it. Mute Is my favorite function on any device. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/8 "2019-07-31T19:36:41Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I searched Setup for scanning. All I found is an option to turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth . Nothing else. When you say that you searched setup for scanning, do you mean that you looked through it or used the search bar at the top. If you looked through all the settings, try using the search bar at the top. If that’s what you did, try other keywords, like ‘scan’ (as opposed to scanning) or ‘nearby’. > [@](#): > > I’ll just kill the scanning notification. That’s probably the best idea. You may not want to be looking for the scan setting again someday when you’re trying to connect/pair your phone to something. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-10-your-scanning-settings-notification-is-this-important/837898/9 "2019-08-01T00:40:32Z")
I was using the Search bar in setup. The setup on this Sony Activia is badly laid out. It’s hard finding things. The Search bar is a necessity. My old Motorola is much easier to navigate.