I limit mine to messages and calls because I don’t like the distraction of tons of notifications. Curious what others do
Phone
SMS/MMS
Family Link
That’s it. Everything else can wait till I open it up.
No
Phone and text. Everything else can fuck off
The only thing that’s allowed to notify me is my pager for work
I don’t pro actively block any of them, because I do appreciate reminders, but once something starts to get annoying, it’s cut off.
none.
I keep my phone on silent no vibrate.
My father died three days before I checked my phone. my voicemail was filled with calls from him, “answer your phone boy!”, " I’m dying son, please send help!", “you were always your mother’s favorite…”
the silence is deafening–
SHIT there’s another lost kid alert!
Anything time-sensitive. Emails, calls, messages, and calendar reminders. Then I have a Sleep setting that silences all of them when I go to bed.
Other than the necessities, the one app I allow notifications for is the C-SPAN app. They send maybe 1 notification a week for something like a live presidential address on a news event.
Anything that might create excessive notifications (social media/news) I use as a web app on top of not enabling notifications.
Only texts and calls are audible notifications. Everything else is slient.
No Ads
If a notification sends me an ad, I will block the app and also review whether I even need it. Anyone willing to shovel ads at me in my notifications is not my friend.
Other stuff is simple:
- If I need to know the information right away I allow a notification. Stuff like calls, messages, server monitoring, security, etc. Notifications that only fire when actively using or just after using an app also get to stay on if they are useful.
- If it’s not urgent, I set a reminder in my to do list to review it on a recurring basis, for example “check Mastadon, weekly, Saturday”
Follow up question: how do you handle apps that have persistent notifications?
Most apps with persistent notifications that I used allowed you to turn off that notification in the app’s settings. Others utilize androids notification category management to allow you to disable the persistent notification.
I have my phone permanently on Do Not Disturb, and anytime I have a notification I don’t like, I block the app from sending notifications.
I basically have email, Signal, and missed phone calls left over (but voice messages are blocked).
I have my email silenced. The red dots are allowed but nothing else. Too much spam
Messages, phone calls, cameras, financial alerts, and a game discord (only server and game news specifically).
wait, you guys are blocking notifications? Are you allowed to do that??? /j
I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it’s abused it’s never getting it back
I only use FOSS apps, so never had to block any apps from sending notifications.
I’m sure FOSS apps are less intrusive, but they still use notifications surely? I’d generally want a calendar or messager app to send me notifications, but I might want to block a specific app depending on my use case.
Well, I don’t know what we’re counting here. Generally, if FOSS apps have notifications which one might perceive as annoying, they’ll have a checkbox in the in-app settings, so I don’t need to *block* them.
There is one scenario, where I’ve blocked notifications, which is when an app wants to run in the background, then it has to put up a permanent notification. I hadn’t counted that, since that’s an Android requirement.Aside from that, IMHO it’s pretty clear-cut whether notifications are either necessary or subjective or not a good idea, so apps with user interests in mind can get that right quite well.
Okay, that makes sense. I took OP’s question to be about what notifications you use/want and which you turn off. They describe allowing only calls and messages, and were asking what else people permitted. E.g. I don’t allow my lemmy app to notify me about replies, but I’m sure some people do.
I allow notifications from my email provider, my bank, and IMs - although I disable group notifications. Everything else is prohibited.
