If replies, upvotes and “trending” posts from Reddit keep lighting up your iPhone, there are two places to stop them. To pick which kinds of alerts you get, use the notification settings inside the Reddit app. To stop every Reddit alert at once, go to Settings > Apps > Reddit > Notifications on your iPhone and turn off Allow Notifications. The steps below apply to the official Reddit app on current versions of iOS.
Quiet some alerts or silence all of them?
The two switches do different jobs, so it helps to decide what you want before you start.
| What you want | Where to change it | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| No Reddit pushes at all | iPhone Settings, Allow Notifications off | The iPhone blocks every alert from the Reddit app, whatever Reddit’s own settings say. |
| Keep replies and messages, drop the rest | Reddit app, Manage Notifications | Reddit stops sending the types you switch off; the rest still arrive. |
| Fewer alerts from one busy community | Mute the community in the Reddit app | That community stops showing up in your notifications and recommendations. |
| A break for an hour or a day | Swipe left on a Reddit alert, or use a Focus | Mute for 1 Hour or Mute for Today ends on its own; a Focus ends when you turn it off or when its schedule ends. |
Turn off all Reddit notifications in iPhone Settings
This is the switch that stops everything. Apple documents it in its article on changing notification settings for an app.
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap Apps, then scroll down and tap Reddit.
- Tap Notifications. If Notifications doesn’t appear, Apple notes that the app might not be able to send notifications, so there is nothing to turn off.
- Turn off Allow Notifications.
With the switch off, no Reddit alert can reach your Lock Screen or Notification Center. Turn Allow Notifications back on whenever you want them again; Apple notes that with it on you can also customize the sounds, placement and appearance of the app’s alerts.
The same switch through the Notifications list
You can reach the Reddit notification screen another way, and older versions of iOS list apps directly in Settings rather than under Apps. Apple’s notifications guide describes this route: go to Settings, tap Notifications, then select the app under Notification Style.
- Open Settings.
Older iOS version shown; current screens look different. - Tap Notifications.
Older iOS version shown; current screens look different. - Under Notification Style, scroll down and tap Reddit.
Older iOS version shown; current screens look different. - Turn off Allow Notifications.
Older iOS version shown; current screens look different.
Every app follows this pattern, so the same steps work for Spotify alerts or text message notifications when those get noisy too.
Choose which Reddit notifications you get
Reddit keeps its own list of notification types, tied to your Reddit account. According to Reddit’s help center, the route in the iPhone app is:
- Open the Reddit app and tap your avatar to open your profile page.
- Tap the menu button (three lines) near the top-right corner.
- Tap Settings, then tap your username under Account Settings.
- Tap Manage Notifications under Basic settings.
- Turn off the types you don’t want and leave on the ones you do.
Reddit’s help center says you’ll see a list of all the available notifications, each with its own switch. The names and groupings may differ in your version of the app, so read each label.
Stop “trending” post alerts
Trending alerts are recommendations, not replies to you. Reddit’s help center says to open Manage Notifications, scroll down to Recommendations and toggle Trending posts off. Reddit adds that you can’t turn off trending alerts for just one community: the switch covers all of them.
Mute one community
When a single community is behind most of the noise, muting it is more precise than switching off a whole notification type. Reddit’s help center says muted communities stop showing up in your notifications and recommendations.
- From the community: open the community page, tap the overflow menu (three dots) and choose the option to mute that community.
- To undo it later: go to Settings in the Reddit app, tap Account settings for your username, scroll to the safety section and tap Manage muted communities.
Gentler options than turning everything off
If you still want Reddit alerts but less intrusively, leave Allow Notifications on and change how they arrive from the same Reddit screen in Settings.
- Alerts: Apple’s guide says to choose the alert style you want under Alerts, for example a less intrusive style than the one you have now.
- Sounds: turn this off so Reddit alerts stop making noise while still appearing. If buzzing is the real problem across every app, you can also turn off vibration on your iPhone.
- Badges: turn these off to remove the red count on the Reddit icon.
- Show Previews: controls whether the text of a reply appears on the Lock Screen. Apple’s global setting lives in Settings > Notifications > Show Previews, and you can limit previews to When Unlocked.
For a short break, swipe left over a Reddit alert on the Lock Screen or in Notification Center, tap Options, then pick Mute for 1 Hour or Mute for Today. The same menu also has View Settings, which opens Reddit’s notification settings, and Turn Off. To silence every app during work or sleep, set up a Focus instead; Do Not Disturb is the simplest one.
Reddit in a browser and other Reddit apps
The iPhone switch only controls the app it belongs to. If you read Reddit in Safari on reddit.com, Reddit’s help center says to visit your Settings, click the Notifications tab and toggle the types you want on or off. The website and the app share your Reddit account, so check both if a type you switched off keeps showing up. If you receive Reddit emails as well, look through the same account settings on the website, since emails don’t pass through the iPhone’s notification switch.
Third-party Reddit apps are separate apps with their own entry under Settings > Apps and their own preferences, so turning off the official app’s notifications doesn’t silence them.
Reddit alerts on iPhone: more questions
I turned Reddit types off but still get pushes. Why?
Check that the alert you’re still getting is a type you switched off in Manage Notifications. If alerts keep arriving, the iPhone switch in Settings is the reliable fallback, because it blocks everything from the app.
Why don’t I get an alert for every comment on my post?
Reddit’s help center says that if you’ve opted in to notifications for comments on your posts, you’re notified when someone comments directly on your post. You won’t get a notification when someone replies to someone else’s comment.
Does deleting the Reddit app stop the notifications?
Yes, an app that isn’t installed can’t send pushes. If you reinstall it later and the app asks to send notifications, decline the request, or turn Allow Notifications off in Settings afterwards.
Once the alerts are under control, you might also want to edit a Reddit post on mobile when you spot a typo in something you shared.
Kermit Matthews runs Live2Tech from just outside Philadelphia. He is an IT specialist with over 20 years of experience, from a university help desk to small-business IT, IT management and his own consulting practice, and has written tech guides full time since 2020. Steps are checked against the current software on a real device or the maker’s official documentation. More about Kermit.