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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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
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.
SMS, calls, and doorbell
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?
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)
Calls and texts - and only through icons. Otherwise it’s do not disturb 24/7.
Likewise except my watch vibrates and notifies me of incoming calls so I can then not answer them.
Messages, phone calls, cameras, financial alerts, and a game discord (only server and game news specifically).
Cameras?
Security cameras. My bad.
Ah that makes much more sense. Cheers!
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.
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!
I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it’s abused it’s never getting it back
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
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.
My sports betting apps. Need to know when the hot games are on🔥
