let them all in or only allow for some specific apps (if so which ones)?
All of them? No.
My messaging apps get to notify me. Everything else gets to fuck off.
Disable everything except email and WhatsApp, also SMS for deliveries
Why the fuck would you have BBC News notify you that Pol Pot won Strictly Come Dancing?!?
Never understood why people would leave notifications on for everything, except to have their phone beep in public to make them seem popular, maybe?
It’s all personal preference but I’d go crazy if I had email notifications on. If it’s urgent and I want you to have instant access to me you should be able to text me. Otherwise, email is something I look at at beginning or end of day. Same for work. It’s well documented at this point how destructive interruptions and distractions are to reaching deeper levels of thought, engagement and productivity…and that is not restricted to the work world.
I usually deep sleep all apps that I don’t need to run constantly, and their notifications get disabled along with them.
So really I end up with only the core apps to receive notifications from. Usually apps related to communications.
Most of them.
I get notified for
- Calls
- SMS
- WhatsApp (yuck, but a few friends use it)
- Signal
- Tinder
- DuoLingo
Tinder seems to be “buggy” and won’t accept that I want to be notified for new messages and matches, but not for anything else.
Nothing else is supposed to send me a notification. I don’t really use social media (other than this, if it counts), so that helps.
Android 14 notification manager works well on tinder for me, The message categorization is done by tinder, but blocking the notification is done by the OS
I might be an idiot then, as is traditional for users. I was confused that “Offers & Promos” just toggled, but “New Likes” took me into an OS menu. I thought that OS menu was toggling notifications for the entire app. I think you are correct, though. So thank you: No more useless “new likes” messages for me.
I also have all notifications disabled, except the ones I really need (texts, calls, calendar, email and others like this). I don’t like that every time I look at my phone to have tens or hundreds of notifications that I am not interested in, I want to have only what I need to see.