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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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
Calls, Messages, Whatsapp, Banking App, Browser (for downlods).
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
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.