Mobile notifications are like anything: too much is bad. While all notifications are important, none are. I I prefer to receive few notifications on my mobile instead of the whole panel being full and having to be emptied several times a day without barely checking what's there. If you would like to follow my example, I will give you several ideas on how to achieve this.
App notifications are the bread and butter of many apps, although not all of them are equally essential. With a little effort, it is possible to tame notifications delete the ones that are not interesting and reduce the visibility of the less important.
Don't grant crazy permission
Just because an app asks for permission to send notifications doesn't mean you grant it. The developers prefer to have permission to take you back to the app, but that's still the case. your decision whether to grant permission or not.
Moreover, Your first answer should be no. unless absolutely necessary due to the nature of the request. And even if you do, you don't need to grant permission until you really need it. For example, in an online shopping app, you don't need to give permission first until you have placed an order and want to stay informed about its status. Before that, the app is probably just using notifications to spam you.
Feel free to remove permission
Do not hesitate to remove permission to send notifications if you consider that an application is crossing the line. This is actually my favorite way to keep notifications at bay on my phone: when an app spams more than necessary, it loses notification sending privileges.
Instead of digging through mobile settings, everything you need do is long press on the notification who has arrived and press Turn off notifications or a similar option, since the customization layers significantly modify the notification menus. Although they have different names, all Android phones allow you to block notifications from an app by long-pressing a notification.
Silencing the least important
You'll want to keep some notifications, but without them making noise, showing up in a floating window, or appearing as an icon. This is the definition of silent notificationsthose that appear in the notification panel “in ninja mode”.
You see silent notifications when you view the panel and they display normally completely down and compressedvery discreet. When you want to make a notification silent, long press it and choose Mute or, if it gives you a choice of modes, go for silent mode or similar.
Configure notifications in apps
The most civilized way to control an app's notifications is from the application itself. Here you will find, in some cases, more detailed options on when and how the app will send notifications.
We have a good example and WhatsAppwhere you can mute a chat for several hours or set a different notification tone for each chat or group.
Get rid of unnecessary categories
An app with several categories of notifications disabled
Of course, not all apps are equally civilized. Some apps send you important notifications and others that aren't important or are downright spam. If you're lucky, you can use Android notification channels to allow certain types of notifications and not others.
To see which notification channels an app has, you can long-press the app, tap the info icon, then enter the notifications section (If that doesn't work, find the app in Settings > Apps).
If you're lucky, the app will have different channels for each type of notifications (for example, for orders, private messages and promotions), so that you can turn off promotion notifications while retaining others that you wish to continue to receive.
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