I turned off both sounds and vibrations for notifications and calls. The important stuff gets sent to my MiBand, so I still know about it, and right away know what it is.
I've been applying the opposite strategy. On my remote work days, I leave my phone on full sound, and every notification that arrives and makes a sound or vibrates, I check it, and I personally modify its parameters to fit its case.
After a week of this, my phone only rings and vibrates for the important stuff. Chats and email are fully silent now (if you really need me, just call). Also, now that my phone can ring (before this I just always set my phone on vibration) I've set up different distinctive sounds for the different important stuff so I know what's up right away.
I just set my phone to silent a couple years back and have never been happier. Have I missed a few phone calls? Yeah, but that is acceptable collateral damage.
I otherwise check on my own terms and that's fine by me...(read: I pick up my phone, notice the number of notifications, and just click Clear All)
I had some app that I don't remember, and with some certain update its permanent notification got somehow fucked and it was sending notifications every second.
It's a welcomed feature, but there is really no excuse for struggling with notification spam on modern versions of Android. There are enough controls available, both at a system level and within apps themselves, that it's more a case of user error at this point. If you have an app that is just completely out of control then I would question why you actually need something so intrusive installed on your device in the first place.
There are still apps that won't bother to separate their notifications into different categories so that you either have to block all or nothing. I think Uber and Lyft do this.
Meanwhile the meetup app has so many different categories that they're useless.
At this point every new Android feature people get excited about is stuff we had even in the CyanogenMod days. But gotta generate hype so people get FOMO and buy new devices, maximizing ewaste.
Unlike the article suggests, I really hope that the option "only vibrate when unlocked" means that it doesn't play a notification sound when the phone is unlocked. Also that it'll be enabled by default.
So annoying to hear tons of notification sound from a person who's actively chatting, holding the phone in their hands, making the sound completely pointless.
I turn off haptics entirely and also usually keep media volume off until I want to to make sound. Any app that spams notifications doesn't get to use them.
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i swear its some of the worst pieces of software ive ever used. its slow, unintuitive, lacks features, notifications somehow still suck as much as they did 5 years ago, and it does all that while also being a ressource hog.
I hate (mostly chat) apps that don't have some form of cooldown. If I received a notification 3s ago, the app doesn't need to issue another one for the same conversation as new messages come.
I think stock android (pixel software) has a feature that is called notification interval (something like that) and it means that if an app has sent me a notification, it can't send me another one for another x time. It's extremely useful especially for messenger that blasts you with notifications when you use multiple devices
I turn silent off when the home wifi connects. I don't keep my phone on my pocket at home, but i also don't allow notifications on most apps, and no noise or vibration on any notification.
These days, knowing some people, I'm already grateful if a person is just using the default notification sound. Two highlights:
Camera flash light.alongside the notification, so you get a free flashbang whenever you're sitting across from that person. I've yet to figure out how that mode is even helpful in any way and not just an annoyance for other people.
Long music clips not as a ringtone, but as a notification on full blast. Essentially, that person has trained themself to drop everything when a notification comes in in order to shut down the music. I'm not an expert, but that feels like the opposite of healthy phone usage.
The camera flash notification thing is useful for people that are deaf or hard of hearing if they don't have the phone actually on their person when the notification goes off
I miss my LG phone that let me customize the LED color based on app. That way if it were one color I knew it was semi-important, but other colors I knew were...dismissible.
Killing status LEDs, then realising that there are people who needed it, and making them use the camera flash on the back of the phone instead isn't great either.
