To turn off the sound for Twitch notifications on your iPhone, open Settings, tap Notifications, tap Twitch, and turn off Sounds. Twitch alerts, such as a channel you follow going live, still show up, but they arrive without a noise.
The sound switch belongs to the iPhone, not to the Twitch app, so the steps are the same whichever version of Twitch is installed. The labels below follow Apple’s iPhone User Guide for iOS 27 on changing notification settings. Earlier iOS versions use the same Notifications menu, though a few labels may differ.
Before You Start
- The Twitch app has to be installed, and it must have asked for permission to send notifications at least once. Apple notes that an app without a notifications entry may not be able to send notifications at all.
- The change applies only to this iPhone. An iPad or another phone with Twitch installed keeps its own settings.
How to Turn Off Twitch Notification Sounds
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Tap Notifications.
- Scroll to the list of apps under Notification Style and tap Twitch.
- Turn off Sounds.
There is nothing to save. The setting takes effect as soon as you flip the switch, and you can leave Settings.
When an app supports it, tapping Sounds lets you choose a sound. If your Twitch screen opens a list of sounds instead of showing a switch, pick the option for no sound if one is offered.
Another route to the same screen
Apple also documents a second path: open Settings, tap Apps, tap Twitch, then tap Notifications. It opens the same options, which is handy if you are already looking at the Twitch entry in Settings. See Apple’s article on how to turn notifications on or off for a specific app.
What Changes and What Stays the Same
With Sounds off, Twitch notifications still appear wherever you allow them under Alerts: the Lock Screen, Notification Center, or banners. They just don’t play a tone.
The switch does not touch audio inside the Twitch app. Streams, clips and ads play at whatever volume you set with the side buttons. It also has no effect on other apps, because every app has its own notification screen.
How to Check That It Worked and Turn Sound Back On
Go back to Settings > Notifications > Twitch and look at the Sounds switch. If it is off, the next Twitch alert should arrive quietly. To undo the change, turn Sounds back on from the same screen. Nothing else needs to be reset.
Turn Off Twitch Notifications Completely
Turning off Allow Notifications stops every Twitch alert on this iPhone, including go-live alerts. If you only want quiet, turn off Sounds instead.
To stop the alerts entirely, go to Settings > Notifications > Twitch and turn off Allow Notifications. You can turn it back on at any time from the same place.
Mute Twitch for an Hour or a Day
For a short break, you do not need to open Settings at all. You can mute Twitch right from the notification itself:
- Find a Twitch notification on the Lock Screen or in Notification Center.
- Swipe left on the notification, or on the stack of Twitch notifications.
- Tap Options.
- Choose to mute the app for an hour or for the day.
According to Apple, muted notifications go straight to Notification Center. They do not appear on the Lock Screen, play a sound, light up the screen or show a banner. To end the mute early, swipe left on a Twitch notification in Notification Center, tap Options, then tap Unmute. The same menu has Turn Off, which disables Twitch notifications altogether, and View Settings, which jumps to the Twitch notification screen. If you are not sure where that list lives, see where Notification Center is on an iPhone.
Other Ways to Make Twitch Alerts Less Distracting
On the same Twitch notification screen in Settings, you can also:
- Choose where alerts appear. Under Alerts, pick the Lock Screen, Notification Center, banners, or any combination.
- Hide the badge. Turn off Badges to remove the red number on the Twitch icon. For more, read about badges on an iPhone.
- Hide previews. Tap Show Previews, if it appears, and choose Always, When Unlocked or Never.
- Bundle alerts into a summary. If you use Scheduled Summary, choose Scheduled Summary under Notification Delivery to get Twitch alerts in a batch at times you choose. To set it up, go to Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary.
A Focus, such as Do Not Disturb or Sleep, delays notifications for a period you control. Inside a Focus you can silence chosen apps: go to Settings > Focus, pick a Focus, tap Apps, tap Silence Notifications From, and add Twitch. That keeps Twitch quiet during work or sleep while leaving it alone the rest of the day.
Change Which Alerts Twitch Sends
The iPhone decides whether an alert makes noise. Twitch decides which alerts get sent in the first place, and fewer alerts is often the real fix. Twitch Help describes this path in the mobile app:
- Open Twitch and tap your profile picture in the top-left corner.
- Tap Account Settings.
- Tap Notifications.
- Tap Manage Channel Notifications, then tap a channel to change its level.
Twitch lists four levels for each channel you follow: Always (every notification for that channel), Personalized (the default, where Twitch picks notifications based on your viewing habits), Go Live Only, and Off. You can also open a channel and tap the bell icon under the video player to change that one channel.
The same Notifications screen in the app holds the options for push, email, and on-site notifications. Twitch’s Where Are My Notifications? article lists them all.
Discord works the same way, with its own per-server controls. You can turn off notifications from a Discord server on iPhone separately.
Troubleshooting
Twitch is not in the Notifications list
When an app has no notification entry, it may not be able to send notifications. For a newly installed app that usually means it has not asked for permission yet. Open Twitch first. Twitch Help says the app prompts you to enable notifications when you visit the mobile section of its notification settings while they are disabled.
There is no Sounds switch
Check that Allow Notifications is on. When it is off, Twitch sends no alerts to this iPhone, so there is no sound to turn off.
You still hear a noise from Twitch
Confirm the sound is a notification and not audio from a stream that is still playing. Then reopen Settings > Notifications > Twitch and make sure Sounds is still off. If you have Twitch on an iPad or another phone, the noise may be coming from that device, which has separate settings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this affect other apps?
No. Turning off Sounds for Twitch changes only Twitch. Every app has its own notification settings.
The same steps work for other apps, for example to turn off Netflix notifications on iPhone.
Will I still get go-live alerts with Sounds turned off?
Yes. Go-live alerts and other Twitch notifications keep arriving as banners, on the Lock Screen or in Notification Center, depending on what is selected under Alerts. Only the tone is removed.
Does turning off Sounds mute streams in the Twitch app?
No. The Sounds switch covers notification sounds only. Stream audio is controlled by the volume buttons and the player in the app.
Can I pick a different sound for Twitch instead of silence?
Only if the app supports it. You can tap Sounds and select a sound when an app offers that choice. If Twitch shows only an on/off switch on your iPhone, the sound cannot be changed there.
Why am I missing Twitch notifications after changing these settings?
If Allow Notifications is on and alerts still do not arrive, the cause is usually on the Twitch side. Twitch says channels set to Personalized may skip some notifications, and that its smart delivery sends each notification to only one place (the site, a push notification, or email) based on where you are active.
More Twitch Tips
If you also watch on a TV, you can hide chat in Twitch on a Fire TV for a full-screen picture.
The Twitch website keeps its own settings too, so its look is changed separately; here is how to switch Twitch to dark mode in Chrome.
Prefer the big screen for long streams? Here is how to watch Twitch on an Apple TV with the free tvOS app.
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