I limit mine to messages and calls because I don’t like the distraction of tons of notifications. Curious what others do
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My sports betting apps. Need to know when the hot games are on🔥
Only apps where I NEED to potentially respond to something. So texts, phone calls, alarm system, Snapchat (but only specific people/groups) and the pager app I use for volunteering at my local hospitals. Everything else, turned off.
Messaging apps, calendar, the ringer for phone calls, my Lemmy app ( although Connect for Lemmt seems hit and miss on delivering notifications, which is fine by me.)
wait, you guys are blocking notifications? Are you allowed to do that??? /j
I allow notifications from my email provider, my bank, and IMs - although I disable group notifications. Everything else is prohibited.
Aurora Pro - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Authenticator - Banners, Badges
BankID - Banners, Sounds
Calendar - Banners, Sounds, Badges
FaceTime - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Find My - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Krisinformation - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Messages - Critical Alerts,Banners, Sounds, Badges
Phone - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Reminders - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Swish - Banners, Sounds, Badges
Tracking Notification - Banners, SoundsEvery time I have to manually go into my authenticator I think to myself “I should really turn on your notifications so that I can just do this from the top-menu”
And then I hit my confirmation, close the app and don’t think about it again until I manually open it again lol
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.
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.
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.
Beyond calls and texts I’m very selective with my YouTube “bell” subscriptions so I allow notifications there as I generally want to watch them.
Calendar. Banking apps. That’s it.
All notifications are silent and have been forever. If it’s important someone will call me, otherwise I don’t want my phone to interrupt what I’m doing.
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.
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
none.
I think the only apps I have currently giving me notifications that aren’t permanent or semi-permanent notifications (netguard, browser, and my local music player app) are my calendar, messaging app, and a single game. I refuse to let either the number of open apps and notifications on my device pile up to more than maybe 5 each, max.
SMS, calls, and doorbell
