Turn Off Live Tile Notifications for individual Tile
To turn off Live Tile Notifications for an individual Tile in Windows 10: That’s all! Read: How to enable or disable Notifications from apps and other senders in Windows 10. In Windows 8.1, you need to do is, while on your Start Screen, right-click on the Tile, whose live notifications you want to turn off.
At the bottom, In Windows 8, you will see the option to Turn Live Tile Off. Clicking on it will turn off the live tile notifications. In Windows 8.1, you will see a context menu open. If you wish to turn on back the live notifications, right-click on the tile and this time you will see the option to Turn live tile on.
Disable Tile Notifications for all Tiles
If you wish to turn off tile notifications for all the tiles in Windows 10, you can do so using the Group Policy Editor. Type gpedit.msc in start screen search and hit Enter to open it. Navigate to the following policy setting:
Now in the right pane, double-click on Turn off tile notifications, and in the Settings box which opens, click on Enabled > Apply. No reboots or service restarts are required for this policy setting to take effect. Read: Enable or Disable Toast Notifications for Network Usage, Lock Screen, Tiles in Windows 10.
Clear Old Live Tile Notifications History
If you like the live tile notification feature and chose to have it continue to be enabled as per the default settings, you will notice that over a period of time, you will continue to see even older notifications. If you wish, you can set your Windows to clear these old live tile notifications history on exit. To do so go to the following policy setting:
Now in the right pane, double-click on Clear history of tile notifications on exit, and in the Settings box which opens, click on Enabled > Apply. You will now see only the latest fresh notifications on the tile. This setting does not prevent new notifications from appearing, however. So you will see fresh notifications on the start screen every time. Hope this helps!
