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
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 allow notifications from my email provider, my bank, and IMs - although I disable group notifications. Everything else is prohibited.
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.
Well, I don’t know what we’re counting here. Generally, if FOSS apps have notifications which one might perceive as annoying, they’ll have a checkbox in the in-app settings, so I don’t need to *block* them.
There is one scenario, where I’ve blocked notifications, which is when an app wants to run in the background, then it has to put up a permanent notification. I hadn’t counted that, since that’s an Android requirement.Aside from that, IMHO it’s pretty clear-cut whether notifications are either necessary or subjective or not a good idea, so apps with user interests in mind can get that right quite well.
Okay, that makes sense. I took OP’s question to be about what notifications you use/want and which you turn off. They describe allowing only calls and messages, and were asking what else people permitted. E.g. I don’t allow my lemmy app to notify me about replies, but I’m sure some people do.
wait, you guys are blocking notifications? Are you allowed to do that??? /j
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Text messages, phone calls, security cameras, financial alerts, and a game discord (only server and game news specifically).
(edited to clarify)
Cameras?
Security cameras. My bad.
Ah that makes much more sense. Cheers!
The only thing that’s allowed to notify me is my pager for work
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.
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.
Calls, Messages, Whatsapp, Banking App, Browser (for downlods).
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.
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
All that aren’t excessive. I’ll take those Taco Bell and Starbucks ads every now and then no problem
