let them all in or only allow for some specific apps (if so which ones)?
I let the apps have a chance, but if they drop a notification when it wasn’t needed I remove the privilege. Unless it’s a game, then it’s insta muted.
Literally me. I’ll allow all the notifications in the world until they become annoying. Then it’s insta deny.
Disable everything except email and WhatsApp, also SMS for deliveries
Why the fuck would you have BBC News notify you that Pol Pot won Strictly Come Dancing?!?
Never understood why people would leave notifications on for everything, except to have their phone beep in public to make them seem popular, maybe?
It’s all personal preference but I’d go crazy if I had email notifications on. If it’s urgent and I want you to have instant access to me you should be able to text me. Otherwise, email is something I look at at beginning or end of day. Same for work. It’s well documented at this point how destructive interruptions and distractions are to reaching deeper levels of thought, engagement and productivity…and that is not restricted to the work world.
Yeah I have three emails - business (self employed, always on), personal (always notify but no sound), Hotmail (orders and spam, fuck off don’t notify)
Everything else can fuck the fuck off
My dad has all YouTube notifications turned on for every channel he follows. He also has the sound on max at all hours of the day. I’ve asked if he wants help turning them off and he told me he likes it that way, so I’m pretty sure he’s a psychopath.
I have an anazing solution for you, just keep BBC news uninstalled?
As few as possible, meaning immediate communication apps and a couple that monitor devices. A few more can notify if they’re running.
Yes, and UberEats in particular is big mad about it. It brings me joy to tap “Deny” everytime it asks me to turn them back on.
The only notifications I get are texts/calls, and a couple smart-home things that are set to warn me about temps or when a light-timer turns on or off. Not even social media, especially not social media, get to interrupt my day.
I know I want some of them and I don’t have infinite apps, so whichever one’s irritate me after a few notifications I long press and disable that notification.
After a few weeks or so you just get the notification you care about
All of them? No.
My messaging apps get to notify me. Everything else gets to fuck off.
The moment a new app decides to send me a notification to get me to use it more, it gets uninstalled right there.
Not playing that game.
It’s on for Messaging apps, email, and specific apps I with want or need notifications for. I don’t have it on for any social media apps, I check those on my own time when I please. All sounds are off thanks to my Apple Watch that vibrates.
I only allow messaging services that my friends and family use, calendar, and alarms.
I check everything else often enough on my own without any notifications.
Ya, I only allow them for apps that I want to be notified for like email, Lemmy, etc basically messaging stuff.
If you don’t then some app somewhere is going to send you an ad as a “notification” which pisses me off to no end.
Most of them.
I get notified for
- Calls
- SMS
- WhatsApp (yuck, but a few friends use it)
- Signal
- Tinder
- DuoLingo
Tinder seems to be “buggy” and won’t accept that I want to be notified for new messages and matches, but not for anything else.
Nothing else is supposed to send me a notification. I don’t really use social media (other than this, if it counts), so that helps.
Android 14 notification manager works well on tinder for me, The message categorization is done by tinder, but blocking the notification is done by the OS
I might be an idiot then, as is traditional for users. I was confused that “Offers & Promos” just toggled, but “New Likes” took me into an OS menu. I thought that OS menu was toggling notifications for the entire app. I think you are correct, though. So thank you: No more useless “new likes” messages for me.
Everything disabled except calls, iCloud stuff (iMessage, health, calendar, etc), emails, Snapchat and local weather alerts.
I get notifications for text messages, nothing else. The phone is not the boss of me. I am the boss of the phone.
I disable notifications for everything I can, but some need to stay enabled. My line of work means I need to leave email notifications on, for example. Texts and other messaging apps are on too, because otherwise I’ll go days without talking to people. My blue light filter app also has a spot of the notification bar, so that I can always turn it off and on when I want to.
Email, Signal and SMS get notifications. Literally everything else is off, and I use Buzzkill to shorten the vibrate. I have ASD, and run my own business, so I get literally 30-40 SMS/200+ Signal notifications a day, and the constant BZZZZ BZZZZ actually causes me an immense amount of sensory overload. Buzzkill ensures that vibration pattern is nothing more than a very quick sub-half second, one-off buzz. The number of apps I actually have installed is so few, I can literally fit them on one screen, no scrolling required, and I check for the few app updates I’ll need manually each day.
Only notifications I want are calls/texts and my security cameras.
I don’t care to know if I got a reply on YouTube, or Lemmy, or a new email. I can always check that stuff at my leisure.
