Turn On and Off On This Day Past Memory Notifications from Facebook on Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to turn on and off notifications about past memories that happened On This Day in Facebook on a Microsoft Lumia 535.

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   To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the Power button located on the right-hand side of the phone

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   Once the phone has been activated, we will see the lock screen

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   To unlock the phone, swipe the screen upwards

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   Once the phone has been unlocked, we will see the home screen, and it is here that we need to find the Facebook tile

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   It has a blue tile background, and in the bottom right-hand corner of the tile, there is the "Facebook" icon

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   This is a white square with a blue "f" on top.

   

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   Press down on the "Facebook" tile, and it will open up the application

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   We now need the icon located on the far right side of the screen in the white bar

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   There are three gray horizontal lines.

   

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   Press down on that icon to open the "More" menu

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   We want the option toward the bottom that says, "Settings"

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   Press down on that.

   

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    On the next menu, press down on "Privacy settings" at the top

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    Next, we need the "Notifications" section, so press down on that

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    The option we want now is "On This Day"

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    This function gives us notifications about things that happened in the past on that particular day. For example, if today's date is September 1st, Facebook may show us something from three years ago that happened on September 1st. This may be something interesting or significant that happened to us on that same day, but in the past. If we want to receive notifications about this, we can, and if we don't, then we don't have to. We can edit this choice by pressing down on the "On This Day" section.

    

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    The default setting for this option is that it is deactivated

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    The box across from "Get Notifications" is empty. There's also some information about this option at the top that says, "Choose whether you want to get notifications about memories to look back on. This includes things you've shared and posts you're been tagged in on the same date in previous years.

    

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    If we do want to receive these notifications, we should press down on the box until a check appears inside of it

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    Once the check appears, it will immediately return to the previous menu

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    At the top it says, "Changes saved", so we know the change has been saved

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    To change the option again, just press down on the "On This Day" option again and then make the desired change

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to turn on and off notifications about past memories that happened On This Day in Facebook on a Microsoft Lumia 535

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    If you have any questions, comments or queries regarding this video or about the process that you have witnessed in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below, and we shall answer them for you.

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