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Years ago I turned off notifications for almost everything, and leave my phone in silent mode almost all the time.
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Years ago I turned off notifications for almost everything, and leave my phone in silent mode almost all the time.
- godot 8y agoI have a similar setup to ryandrake (GP) where I just keep my phone on silent 24/7 (not DND, not sure what the difference is, maybe DND also stops some notifs from coming through at all). I like this better than turning off all notifications. The difference is that like GP said, I control when to look at my phone (which admittedly I still do often), but also I don't lose track of the occasional actually-important notif (granted this is rare outside of messaging). It's also nice for messaging apps -- I can see who messaged me without even unlocking my phone and then I can decide whether to unlock my phone to respond if it's something/someone more urgent or important. A couple of years ago I would worry about missing calls, but the nice thing about the text-era is that all my friends message me now and no one actually calls, and when services and stuff actually calls you, they leave a voice mail. So this is a natural way to solve spam calls for me -- I just don't hear them at all and they become missed calls.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoBy turning off most notifications I've put another step between looking at my phone and viewing notifications. Namely: I have to open each app to check notifications inside the app. I've found this reduces the incidents of me opening any particular app.