Delete duplicate custom notification sounds or phone ringtones in Android v14

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In this post, I describe how to delete duplicate custom notification sounds or phone ringtones in Android v14.

Screenshot of duplicate custom notification sounds

This issue can occur if you’ve used Add notification to add a custom sound and added the same sound more than once.

Resolution

To delete duplicate sounds:

1. Open the Files app.

2. Find the duplicate files (mine appeared in Recent as I had added them recently):

Screenshot of duplicated files in the Files app

3. Press the 3 vertical dots button in the bottom right of each the duplicate file then select Move to bin.

4. The duplicate sounds are now removed from the list in Settings:

Screenshot showing duplicate files removed from the notification sounds list

 

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