Nope. I got the ADHD. I need the robot to remind me about things. It’d make some of you sick how many notifications I get. I have notifications turned on for every channel in two Discord servers. Traffic on them is usually slow to modest, but still. Lemmy is the only platform I use daily that isn’t allowed any notifications because I’ve been using forums for about twenty years and don’t often forget to check in here.

My rule of thumb, if a notification is not immediately actionable, and necessary - that notification gets disabled.

Your delivery has arrived: timely and actionable, that notification can stay

Please rate your delivery: not timely, not necessary, that notification gets removed

I only allow messaging services that my friends and family use, calendar, and alarms.

I check everything else often enough on my own without any notifications.

No, but I tend to disable a bunch of the categories. If it makes it hard to avoid BS/irrelevant/uninteresting/“fake” notifications, notification perms go away, or the whole app does, usually with a free one-star rating. (As if that realistically matters)

Everything disabled except calls, iCloud stuff (iMessage, health, calendar, etc), emails, Snapchat and local weather alerts.

Email, Signal and SMS get notifications. Literally everything else is off, and I use Buzzkill to shorten the vibrate. I have ASD, and run my own business, so I get literally 30-40 SMS/200+ Signal notifications a day, and the constant BZZZZ BZZZZ actually causes me an immense amount of sensory overload. Buzzkill ensures that vibration pattern is nothing more than a very quick sub-half second, one-off buzz. The number of apps I actually have installed is so few, I can literally fit them on one screen, no scrolling required, and I check for the few app updates I’ll need manually each day.

I generally only use non-commercial apps, so never really had any problem…

Only notifications I want are calls/texts and my security cameras.

I don’t care to know if I got a reply on YouTube, or Lemmy, or a new email. I can always check that stuff at my leisure.

I’m not as strict as some people here but I rarely blanket allow notifications and I aggressively manage the settings. Like I allow some apps to show temporary banners if I’m using the phone but don’t allow badges or access to the Notification Center or Lock Screen (or my watch). And I’ll occasionally allow an app like DoorDash that has in-app notification settings where you can turn off non-essential ones.

Basically, I treat my Notification Center as a place for time-sensitive, actionable alerts. If an app can’t stick to that, I’ll either kill notifications for it or dive into the settings.

I also use Focuses (foci?) to limit things to just essentials (like messaging, phone, etc.) further if I’m working or at dinner or something. Like my “At Work” focus lets through work emails and essential Teams chats.

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?

I have all notifications turned off except the following:

Texts, calls, and calendar events are the only things that can make sound or vibrate.

Discord, Snapchat, and OneDrive* pop up but they’re silent. (*I have like 100k pictures going back 20+ years and like seeing the On This Day galleries)

I have notifications active, but notification sound default to none. For apps I want a sound reminder (calendar and pm in chat apps), I set another sound.

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.

All of them? No.

My messaging apps get to notify me. Everything else gets to fuck off.

Android user here. I have five different classes of notifications:

1. Completely off, notifications blocked. Any category that doesn’t give me actionable notifications or notifications based on something I’ve explicitly asked for is here. All streaming apps and games are here. Any app that tries to send me an ad in a notification gets this treatment. Almost every social media category also gets this setting, though there are a couple notable exceptions I’ll get to later. All notifications that are not important and not urgent go here.

2. On, but delivered silently and minimized. “Silently” might be a bit of a misnomer here since I rarely have sound on, but this also means no vibration. The notifications are also minimized in the notification shade and go to the bottom of the list. This is where my new email notifications go, because I’ve got my inbox pretty well filtered down and only things that are actionable are allowed to stay unread in the inbox. Basically this is for anything that’s important but not urgent.

3. Silent. See above for “silent” disclaimer. This section is for notifications that are urgent but may or may not be important; notifications from my cameras, for instance, or headlines from a news org. I also allow selected categories of Mastodon and Lemmy notifications through: only messages typed out by another human, though. Not likes or reposts.

4. Vibrate/sounds. For notifications that are both important and usually urgent. Text messages, Discord messages (from friends only), Slack messages while working. 2FA checkins. Most notifications from my library. Delivery notifications. The notification that my garage door has been left open (it happens a lot). Also, unfortunately, I have to have Instagram DMs in this category, because my wife sends me memes and they’re always really good.

5. Vibrate/sounds and override Do Not Disturb. This category is for VERY urgent and VERY important notifications. Messages from family members (though not group messages). Notifications from my alarm system. The doorbell.

I do also use BuzzKill to finesse messages that I think are delivered in the wrong Android categories; like the stupid notifications my cameras always send about cold weather. I know it’s cold, and I know that’ll affect your battery life. I don’t need to be told every time the temperature dips below 40°F, but I do still want to know when somebody is trying to get into my garage.