Turning off constant friend activity notification pop-ups?!?

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Now that we have been robbed of the "offline" mode, a major side effect is that I keep getting spammed by notifications. Notably the notifications about friends playing this or that.

I found an old thread about that, but the solution described there doesn't work anymore (the described settings menu "Steam > Settings > Friends" is no more
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/882965239875348588/

What's the new way to hide friend activity? Or more generally all notification popups because they're so f***ing annoying.

[Potato]

+1. I'm watching a movie with steam running in the background and these friend activity notification spam is anoying

[The General]

Would love the offline mode back :(

Ps click the Cog on friends chat window, top right.

[Mark]

I just made an offline mode tutorial check it out

[NXGJD-QCV2K-L0BH1@菦轔綟刑趔꿜碶紼外瘋誺煺뷥憿]

Originally posted by The General:

Would love the offline mode back :(

Ps click the Cog on friends chat window, top right.

Yeah I eventually found it too:
- open friends chat
- click the cog (top-right)
- go to notifications, and then you can disable whatever (although I didn't find anything about group events notifications... not sure what happened to those)

Still the offline mode would be great, and would be a nice way to quick-toggle between getting notifications (invisible mode) and not getting them (offline mode)

[NXGJD-QCV2K-L0BH1@菦轔綟刑趔꿜碶紼外瘋誺煺뷥憿]

Originally posted by markS:

I just made an offline mode tutorial check it out

If this is a real offline mode, please provide the link, I'm interested!

[Mark]

Originally posted by 🌈 Milo 🌈:

Originally posted by markS:

I just made an offline mode tutorial check it out

If this is a real offline mode, please provide the link, I'm interested!

Btw my english sucks but i hope this tutorial helps you

Follow my steps:

1. Right-click the steam icon of the task bar, the little one at the right, not the one as big as Chrome icon for example.
2. Click settings.
3. Go to interface.
4. Click on "Set taskbar preferences"
5. There you can select the offline option, then you press OK.
6. To go offline right click the steam icon and there you can change your status.

Again sorry for my english i did my best

[NXGJD-QCV2K-L0BH1@菦轔綟刑趔꿜碶紼外瘋誺煺뷥憿]

Oh nice! Sadly I assume this is an oversight and it might vanish later on...

[Marco Schepper]

Originally posted by 🌈 Milo 🌈:

Oh nice! Sadly I assume this is an oversight and it might vanish later on...

Yep. And hopefully that setting still does what it says after the "update of hell"

[Verso]

Originally posted by CET89-6RLES-E0YJJ@心蟺娅캐寤虼픲隤굑줹崶丏鰡駏:

Originally posted by The General:

Would love the offline mode back :(

Ps click the Cog on friends chat window, top right.

Yeah I eventually found it too:
- open friends chat
- click the cog (top-right)
- go to notifications, and then you can disable whatever (although I didn't find anything about group events notifications... not sure what happened to those)

Still the offline mode would be great, and would be a nice way to quick-toggle between getting notifications (invisible mode) and not getting them (offline mode)

WHAT IS COG?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by All The Camper Must Die:

Originally posted by CET89-6RLES-E0YJJ@心蟺娅캐寤虼픲隤굑줹崶丏鰡駏:

Yeah I eventually found it too:
- open friends chat
- click the cog (top-right)
- go to notifications, and then you can disable whatever (although I didn't find anything about group events notifications... not sure what happened to those)

Still the offline mode would be great, and would be a nice way to quick-toggle between getting notifications (invisible mode) and not getting them (offline mode)

WHAT IS COG?

Friends and Chat settings moved back into the regular client settings menu in 2023. There is also notifications in those setting menus.

This is why outdated information in old threads is bad.

[Garry]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.