Which apps do you allow to give you notifications?
Which apps do you allow to give you notifications?
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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Messages, phone calls, cameras, financial alerts, and a game discord (only server and game news specifically).
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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.
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I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it's abused it's never getting it back
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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.
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My sports betting apps. Need to know when the hot games are on🔥
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wait, you guys are blocking notifications? Are you allowed to do that??? /j
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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I allow notifications from my email provider, my bank, and IMs - although I disable group notifications. Everything else is prohibited.
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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?
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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.
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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, Sounds-
Every 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
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I only use FOSS apps, so never had to block any apps from sending notifications.
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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.
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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).
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I have my email silenced. The red dots are allowed but nothing else. Too much spam
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SMS, calls, and doorbell
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Calls and texts - and only through icons. Otherwise it's do not disturb 24/7.
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Likewise except my watch vibrates and notifies me of incoming calls so I can then not answer them.
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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.
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Calls, text, voice mails, my investment account when a stock sells, news alerts, when the washing machine finishes (so the load doesn't sit there)
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Like yourself, SMS and phone calls. My bank app also handles authentication of online purchases a bit better with notifications enabled. Everything else is disabled.
On desktop I have notifications for email as well as those mentioned above.
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none.
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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.
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Phone is on vibrate all the time. Signal only, but also have Pushbullet set up so I can send notifications when new movies/tv show episodes are downloaded and added to my Jellyfin.
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Calls, Messages, Whatsapp, Banking App, Browser (for downlods).
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Sms, calls, discord, Google voice, work emails (I rarely get a work email...maybe a couple of times per month)
I have my personal Gmail to get silent notifications so I know if something happened but I'm not repeatedly spammed.
Most other things are off unless they are unobtrusive. Ex: my robot vacuum stays enabled for notifications so I know when it is done cleaning, Uber eats is enabled for order tracking but disabled for promotions
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All that aren't excessive. I'll take those Taco Bell and Starbucks ads every now and then no problem
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Same as OP except I also get notifications for software updates through Obtainium.
That's on mobile, on desktop I don't allow any notifications.
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