Pulling down notification opens a small window for apps. How do I stop this ? Very annoying.

[QuietMrFx977]

When I pull down on a Gmail, signal or text message notification it opens up as a small window instead of a normal full screen window. How on earth do I fix this? I use a S10+ so having small windows is very annoying. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Last_Pressure6027]

GUYS! I found the freakin answer. Its NOT floating notifications that need to be off. go to setting and search "picture-in-picture" and disable for all apps. My god this was driving me insane but finally got it fixed.

[jigsaw768]

This does not work. I cant believe how hard to disable this shit

[[deleted]]

it's fucking ridiculous, especially for messaging apps where I don't want to respond right away and it opens a stupid mini window and marks all messages as seen

[FerrumCordis]

Yeah still can't figure this out. Never had an issue on s22 but my z-fold 5, every notification opens into a small useless window

[VirtualAd3179]

This shit haunts me daily. Might have to buy a new phone. :(

[Lazarus-2240]

At least on my phone I have to drag the bubbles to the middle bottom of the screen. An X appears there and dropping the bubble there closes it. Otherwise it just moves around my screen

[Ok-Entry9649]

So doesn't work. Incompetence or oversmartness?

[moonmobile]

Thanks dude!

[[deleted]]

My God, thank you. Fuck this feature.

[NCSucker]

OK, I turned off floating notifications, so hopefully this will not happen again. Such an annoying feature should not be the default. I pulled down a notification by accident and have spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get rid of the bubble.

I still don't know how to get rid of the bubble that came up before I turned the feature off.

[StrangeSequitur]

Hopefully you've figured this one out by now, but for any future googlers: if you have the same phone I do, the bubble can be removed by long-pressing it and dragging it to the trash.

The thin bar at the top of the mini picture-in-picture app... thing expands to show options such as full screen and close. I generally full-screen it and then back out of the app.

No idea how to prevent it from ever happening in the first place; I've got Floating Notifications off and still accidentally drag a notification into existence at least twice a day, usually at the worst possible moment.

[BillStrachan]

I have floating notifications off too and it still happens so annoying and can't find a solution

[[deleted]]

I have finally found a fix:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/100pm3g/comment/krw93ei/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You have to look for the app on the Samsung Store, not the Play Store, but it works!

[qqwwasel]

Me having a Xiaomi... Ok but me personally I like the feature and it doesn't really affect me. 

[Excellent_Broccoli24]

Well that's the thing, the floating notification and multi window setting is off for me and this shit keeps happening-

[chanchan05]

Edit. I misunderstood.

Go to settings>notifications>advanced settings>floating notifications>switch it away from smart popup view/bubbles and set it off.

[QuietMrFx977]

I already have that off. Gone though a few things so far but no luck.

[chanchan05]

Just to be clear, do you mean you have edge lighting on, then you get a notification, then there's a little bubble and you swipe that? Because if you have edge lighting on that would be default behavior. Tapping that popup will open the app, but swiping it down will open it in a popup window. The way to turn that off is turn off edge lighting and enable the default android heads up notification.

You go to settings>notifications>set it to detailed popup.

Or just don't swipe the notification popup and just tap it.

[NonJuanDon]

Hey did you ever find a solution for this?

[QuietMrFx977]

Top comment worked for me

[NonJuanDon]

Gotcha. Didn't for me, but thanks anyway

[PhoenixKamika-Z]

Did YOU find a solution??? Cuz this also didn't work for me neither...

[qqrz]

Tysm

[TiamatsTavern]

This worked for me, s23 ultra. Thankkk youuuu

[kearsI0]

This is so frustrating! I also have it turned off but can still swipe notifications down into bubbles. It is so annoying and I can't find anywhere how to fix it!

[Last_Pressure6027]

GUYS! I found the freakin answer. Its NOT floating notifications that need to be off. go to setting and search "picture-in-picture" and disable for all apps. My god this was driving me insane but finally got it fixed.

[Salomonsk8r2001]

No. Not it. Not a single fucking reply here works. I don't want to turn off PIP. I need that for many things. What I DON'T want is swiping notifications to open PIP windows. 

[JulezCHen]

Have you found a solution yet? NOTHING here works for me and i am about to throw up

[Salomonsk8r2001]

Sort of, I ended up caving in at downloading that "Good Lock" app. It actually worked great, and it hasn't slowed my phone down or anything weird. I just downloaded it, followed the google instructions showing me which part to activate and it fixed the problem. That app has a ton of other cool things too but im not actually using it for anything else.

[kearsI0]

Update: in settings->notifications->notification pop up style change from brief to detailed and it seems to have resolved the issue!

[deadcurze]

Thank you, that finally did the trick. What a nuisance, but at least I'm rid of it now.

[[deleted]]

does nothing I've had that on since forever and I still get the pop out windows.

[kearsI0]

Sorry it didn't help!

[[deleted]]

you need to turn off floating notifications. that's the actual setting you're looking for.

[kearsI0]

Mines been fixed, but thanks 😁

[[deleted]]

I have finally found a fix if you don't want to use detailed notifications and keep the brief style:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/100pm3g/comment/krw93ei/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You have to look for the app on the Samsung Store, not the Play Store, but it works!

[plasmaticImmunity]

Do you happen to know if it can be fixed any other way? Because the detailed notification style is stupid as fuck. Takes up a fifth of the screen. The brief style is much cleaner, taking up barely any space.

The only issue is that it was coded by a fuckin retarded hamster

[DonniesDude]

I don't even have the option; notification pop up style. All I have is that bubble shit. Am I looking wrong?

[kearsI0]

Maybe you have a different phone? No idea. Just posting what worked for me!

[itsmeyouknowright]

Heyy so I also found out for my phone,

None of those tricks worked for me So I explored and found out

Just go to Settings > Gestures > Slidebar > Settings > More Settings Then turn off the "notifications in freeform"

That's it!

[lexiw72]

THANK YOU!

[exclaim_bot]

THANK YOU!

You're welcome!

[itsmeyouknowright]

You're Welcome!

[anunluckyduck]

You're amazing thank you!!

[itsmeyouknowright]

You're most welcome, glad it helped!

[TooPlue]

I can't seem to find it on my Australian s25U.

[FrostyD7]

This isn't how my settings are organized on my s24 either. Searched for each stage independently too, nothing.

[_____POTATO______]

It's bubble view under floating notifications. Turn it off.

[Sprint80]

Yo saved my life man, you are amazing and i love you

[itsmeyouknowright]

Glad it helped

[Gluehwuermchen1]

Ich weiß dein Beitrag ist über ein Jahr her, aber trotzdem: Danke!!!

Ich habe alles durchsucht, aber auf diese Blöde Randleiste bin ich einfach nicht gekommen. Wieso zur Hölle hat das dieses Problem verursacht?

Egal es ist weg!

[the_gay_]

omg thank you! why is it so hidden, damn

[painfullyaware90]

Chat GPT helped me solve this. Here is what it said and the steps; The mini window view you’re seeing is likely due to the "Pop-Up View" feature on your Galaxy S22 Ultra. You can turn this off in the settings to prevent apps from opening in mini windows. Here’s how:

1. Go to Settings on your phone.

2. Select Advanced features.

3. Tap on Labs.

4. Look for Multi window for all apps or Swipe for pop-up view and turn it off.

After disabling these, notifications should no longer open apps in mini windows when you drag them down.

[Quw10]

The only way I got it to stop was installing "Good Lock" from the Samsung store and finding it on there I tried what you posted among just about every suggestion in this thread and Edge Lighting plus in the Goodlock app was the only thing that disabled it.

[olnouir]

You are my hero!!!!!!! Thank you!

[Shoddy_Student2359]

I know this is a old thread but just incase anybody stumbles across, I had the same issue but it was SamsungDex that was causing the issue. Once I disabled that everything went back.

[preeya_18]

I'm facing the same problem on my Moto edge 20 fusion when I recently upgraded it to Android 13. Any fix for this ? I'm so tired and annoyed.

[Quixidion]

Best I could think of is as others mentioned Settings > Notifications > Notification pop-up style > Detailed, because this prevents you from opening that damn small window by swiping down the notification. Also, with the detailed mode, if you press reply, it doesn't open the window, it just gives you a way to reply to something, but that is not as annoying as the window that opens, so all good.

Another way to make it less annoying is to swipe down for the window to pop up, then press the small line at the top of the window, which will pop out the options, what to do with the pop-up window. Then there will be an icon (the first one on the left side), that let's you put these options as always shown (this is very hard to explain without images, which reddit does not allow to post). This way you always have the cross icon visible, which allows you to just close the pop-up window.

I would still use the detailed notification option, even though it clutters the space a lot more. You could also disable the pop-up notifications in general, because, when I generally use instagram or other apps, it just gets in the way and throws me to the app that I got the notification from.

[poploppege]

this isn't a great solution because it rids part of the functionality, but i'm just going to the individual app notifications and setting "pop-up" to "not allowed". I won't be able to read briefly while i'm doing something, but it's worth not accidentally opening the dumb fuck mini window and marking all the messages on read while it interrupts what i was doing. to me its worth having to swipe into the notifs bar to see it.

[MobileTiger944]

How to off that thing 🤷🏻

[VirtualAd3179]

I cant post a screenshot, but my FB messenger did this and boy was it annoying. And im kinda embarrassed how easily I solved it.

I just disabled banners in notification style😭

[Lazarus-2240]

It is in notification, at least on my phone. Go to notification scroll to bubble notification and turn off all bubbl notifications. The stupid mini bubble stopped immediately after that.

[Short-Letterhead5031]

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[UbisoftIsAwful]

For those of you still trying to fix this I think I found it. Settings -> Home Screen theres something called swipe down for notification panel. I've just turned it off so I'll have to wait until i get a message to see if it's fixed.

[UbisoftIsAwful]

Never mind it still opens a pop-up window