I dont know about others, but sometimes I am not able to check my phone, or be fully present in a conversation that I’m part of. Maybe I’m concentrating on work, or driving, and not able to look. It gets distracting when my phone is constantly buzzing and chiming for 5 minutes straight. Muting the chat can help, but if you forget to check it, or get added to a new one, you can’t really do anything about it. I just want to be able to get notified once that the chat has new messages, decide how I want to react, and then move on from it. Is that too much to ask?

  • ji17br@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 months ago

    If you’re on iOS setting up profiles would work. I have work, driving, and do not disturb. Each one allowing/blocking specific notifications

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I just set group chat notifications to silent.

    I still get a notification that’s easy to spot in the tray/bar, but it doesn’t play sound or vibrate, so it’s not distracting unless I’m already looking at the screen.

  • Hucklebee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Although it might feel like it’s really important to stay on top of messages outside of those concentrating times, it really is not. Set your own terms for when to read messages and silence your app altogether.

    “But what if I miss out on…?”

    Don’t let fomo control you. It will awkward at first wanting to check constantly, but you’ll find that in reality you don’t miss much if you check once or twice a day.

  • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
    11·
    3 months ago

    If you’re on Android, BuzzKill can set your notifications to “cool down”, so if you get multiple within a short time, you will only get buzzed again once a set amount of time has passed.

    • mrnarwall@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      Nope. I have an android. I just downloaded an app called buzzkill from a recommendation. We’ll see how well it works out for me

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Buzzkill is great, but although it mutes the notification sound, if you’re listening to an audiobook, it mutes that every time there’s a silent notification! Fuckin annoying

        I wrote to the dev and he said it’s an Android system thing and there’s nothing he can do about it

        Good of him to reply though!