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Stop it (lemmy.today)
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[–] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

The thing that most annoys me is that there is no way I have found to limit the frequency of notifications, particularly for group chats which sometimes send rapid-fire notifications as a conversation starts that I'm not a part of.

I'm driving, I can't read and reply to texts, I'm listening to an audio book, and I just keep getting my book interrupted with pings and it keeps repeating the same phrase over and over. I don't want to put my phone on Do Not Disturb because I still want to be available for a phone call, and I don't want to forget and leave the phone in DND after I'm done driving. That shouldn't be the only fix.

There should be a way to limit notifications to only occur once every X seconds/minutes. If I haven't grabbed my phone to check the first 3 notifications in the last 6 seconds, why would the 4th one be necessary? If 3 more notifications would have pinged in that time, too bad. They can all just collectively shut up until that time limit has passed.

I've been told that this sort of feature exists on some devices but I have found no way to do it on my Samsung S24.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    On Android you can set Do Not Disturb mode to allow calls from your favorites. That's what I do because when I'm sleeping I don't want texts to come through but if an emergency comes up I want to be reachable.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I do that too, but I only want my actual favorites through if I'm, say, in a work meeting, or at the movies or something when I might turn on my Do Not Disturb. If my wife or mom needs to get ahold of me, they can. But I don't want to be that restricted just for a car ride if a friend wants to call and talk or a work colleague has an issue or something.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What you're looking for was added to core Android since Android 15.

    Have you checked in your settings thoroughly?

    With specific DND settings and the various notifications options, you can achieve several different levels of "being notified" all under your control.

    If on older Android versions than 15, a mix of DND settings set to detect driving and/or a tasker or similar app group to set the notifications for specific apps to go into "snooze" would also achieve the same effects.

    There's also at least one open source project I saw on my brief search that had an app that basically mimics the notification cooldown system but I didn't linger enough to determine project state.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    I have Android 16 installed. Searching the settings doesn't show any feature called "notification cooldown"

    Just googled it and found: "Because Samsung uses its own One UI interface over Android, this native menu option may not appear on certain Galaxy models or One UI versions"

    Thanks Samsung.

    It would probably take a separate app to override the notification behavior.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Android is so fragmented as an ecosystem, any time you read about new feature X in Android version Y, assume it only applies to Pixel and AOSP based custom ROMs. Sometimes you'll be wrong but generally it's just pointless to assume other people have the same features as you unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I set mine to silent all the time anyway, and have it mounted on the dash so I’ll see it go off. If I miss something, I mean I’m driving so whatever, it’s not the end of the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    "Everyone" (in the media culture - you know, the ones who are paid to do so) seems to be saying that LLMs are taking over the world, solving hundreds of years old math problems and the like...

    Meanwhile I have yet to see a single new feature produced even partially by this A"I".

    Ah example might be: when I am driving (or as a proxy, when connected to a Bluetooth device, either a specific one or any one) disable all SMS notifications, while allowing calls to go through. That doesn't even need fucking AGI - it just makes sense!!! So like, do it already!?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I know on iOS you can set up a “focus” for different situations like driving. Then you can limit notifications to only certain people or none at all. It will automatically activate when your phone connects to your car.

    You could also set one up for listening to music or audiobooks and configure it to have reduced interruptions.

    I would assume that android would have something similar.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Android has Do Not Disturb, which since 99% of all phone calls are spam these days, has to be left on permanently. You can either block or allow all SMS texts. You can also set custom notification tones for each group chat... but making those change depending upon driving is a whole other matter.

    The person I responded to mentioned Samsung, which I think has something that might work along those lines. Though that's an entirely separate registration, with email address (and obviously your phone number), and an entirely separate corporate app store, over and above all that already with Google.

    iOS forces you to sell your soul to them in order to enter their walled garden, but once you do they take great care of you, in most ways, even if as they choose rather than as you would wish.

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