How do I customize the Notification Center on Windows 11?

Today, Windows 11 notifications – whether messages received, downloads or alerts – are now indicated by a bell icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the taskbar. These notifications are grouped together in a specific section, but by default, without any prior configuration on your part, any application can broadcast content through this notification center or through banners, which can sometimes be undesirable. Fortunately, various options are available to adjust the behavior of these notifications.

Customizing the Notification Center on Windows 11

There are several ways of accessing the taskbar customization settings. But in order not to lose you, and to make it as easy as possible for you to understand, I’m going to explain the simplest one in my opinion. First, you’ll need to right-click on the bell-shaped icon in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, as shown in the image below. Then select “Notification settings”

You’ll then see absolutely all the applications that are authorized to send you notifications when they wish. You can start by disabling those you don’t see as useful.

Then, if you want to customize the way notifications are sent from a particular piece of software, that’s also possible. All you have to do is click on it, and a whole range of customization options will open up. I’ve selected Discord for the example.

This tutorial wasn’t very long, and that’s a testament to how easy the process of customizing the Notification Center is. You can either decide to disable them all at once, or go case-by-case, as I did for the Discord application.