I limit mine to messages and calls because I don’t like the distraction of tons of notifications. Curious what others do
No
Phone and text. Everything else can fuck off
Phone
SMS/MMS
Family Link
That’s it. Everything else can wait till I open it up.
The only thing that’s allowed to notify me is my pager for work
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!
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.
None at all. My phone is for looking up things, and for looking at pictures that make me happy. I don’t need notifications for either of those, lol.
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.
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.
Messages, phone calls, cameras, financial alerts, and a game discord (only server and game news specifically).
I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it’s abused it’s never getting it back
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
wait, you guys are blocking notifications? Are you allowed to do that??? /j
Been trying to decide on what to allow on my computer/home server.
But on my phone I allow texts, emails (don’t get many of them), discord (dms and certain chats), phone, and that is probably it. So just communication applications.
