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I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back
- verdverm 2y agoI really like the android feature that does this when you put the phone face down. It's such an easy toggle
- malfist 2y agoAs an owner of an android. How?
- verdverm 2y agoOn my phone it is... Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > Schedules > Flip to Shhh
- malfist 2y agoInteresting, is not there on my galaxy fold
- blisterpeanuts 2y agoNor on my S20 Ultra. Looks like an app is needed on non-Pixel phones these days (Play Store "flip to dnd").
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- twic 2y agoI got my first iPhone a few weeks ago, and was surprised and disappointed to find this missing. It makes for such an easy routine when going to bed, or into a meeting or whatever.
- etblg 2y agoI did the same thing years ago and have never regretted it. I really just hate my phone randomly vibrating and taking my attention over some dumb notification I don't really care about -- or feeling ghost vibrations in my pocket where I have to keep pulling out my phone to see if it was a notification or my imagination. Turns out nothing is really that time critical that it can't wait until the next time I check my phone, which is usually on a surface in front of me anyway.
- ghaff 2y agoYou can generally turn off notifications. A lot of people want to be reached for any number of reasons with respect to family members etc.
- tech234a 2y agoOn iOS you can set Favorite contacts and then allow them to call you despite Do Not Disturb being active.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoAlso if the same number calls you 3 times in 5 minutes, it will ring through
- RandomBacon 2y agoI turned off the equivalent setting in Android because spammers will call multiple times in quick succession.
- crtasm 2y agoA great feature, Android has this also
- ghaff 2y agoThe problem is that it’s not necessarily your contact that is trying to contact you with respect to a family member etc.
- thecleaner 2y agoI just block all notifications. The only things that go through are Whatsapp and calls. Even that is limited to a few people. All group notifs are turned off. Honestly i've got no idea why people would check random notifications
- wruza 2y agoI also found an option in ios that hides incoming calls from non-contacts. You just find missing calls afterwards (and ignore these). Turned it on and never looked back too. I have zero interest in non-contacts contacting me.
- 100pctremote 2y agoUnless I'm not aware of another option, this one still allows the incoming calls to interrupt your display with a notification, albeit silently.
- voisin 2y agoAre you referring to “Silence Unknown Callers”? Last I had it activated, it didn’t show an unknown call as a notification. It just sent them to voicemail and updated the badge on the phone app.
- snvzz 2y agoAlongside privacy and security, knowing how to be in control of notifications rather than the other way around has become an essential skill. It should really be block by default, enable in a case per case basis. But there are perverse incentives for the system to work against the user.
- excalibur 2y agoSame, I'm on DND 24/7, and I love it. For me, it was the recruiters constantly cold-calling and demanding my attention while I was trying to work.
- latexr 2y ago> I’m probably a nightmare to get hold of at a moment’s notice – and should never, ever be someone’s In Case of Emergency, much to my partner’s chagrin iOS’ Do Not Disturb has a feature—on by default—where a second phone call from the same person within three minutes is not silenced.
- crtasm 2y agoI see this option on Android (unchangable 15mins but it's an outdated LineageOS version)
- akerl_ 2y agoThere's also a feature to let specific contacts bypass DND. My immediate family's calls are not affected by DND, and Pagerduty's calls come in as a critical notification.
- intellix 2y agoI also disabled this. The reason I used DND in the first place was because I was playing League of Legends Wild Rift on my phone and mid battle my mum would call me, which takes up the entire screen mid-battle, essentially getting me killed. If my mum and probably others don't get through the first time, they'll try again and again thinking something is broken, until it gets through due to this setting
- homebrewer 2y agoAt least in my country, s[pc]ammers are well aware of this function and call 5-6 times in a row if you don't pick up the phone.
- Starlevel004 2y agoI set my phone to DnD about 10 yrs ago when I first installed telegram, because it was really annoying to get a notif on my computer and then have my phone buzz a few seconds later every single time. If this was somehow fixed I might consider turning it off.
- stevage 2y agoYou just disable notifications for Telegram.
- illusive4080 2y agoMaybe I’m an outlier but I keep notifications enabled, aggressively disabling them at the slightest annoyance (ad, too many for an app I don’t care about, etc). I also use focus modes for sleep and other activities. I like that I can control when I get notifications without having to completely disable them.
- shemnon42 2y agoIf I ever do this I'll blame tech recruiters who don't care what time zone I live in. However things have been quite a bit better in that regard lately... :(
- don-code 2y agoSome time ago, after going through about five years of terminal connectivity to my job via Slack, I got a new phone and just... didn't reinstall Slack. You are probably expecting me to start listing off all the benefits, how my life is 127% better, I sleep 42 extra minutes each night and so on. I wish it were that simple. The good is that, in the three years I've not had Slack installed on my phone, I've missed important night/weekend events exactly twice - and in both cases, they were improper escalations directly to me (we have a pager rotation for this exact scenario). The bad news is that I still find myself anxious that I'm missing something - because frankly, I probably am, even if it's low-priority. It's kind of like taking out a loan against tomorrow, where I'll have to catch up on a series of decisions that were made without my involvement, or talk someone through what they _should_ have done when I could've simply led them down the right path.
- geuis 2y agoFor iOS, turn on do not disturb. Also turn off Siri and "Apple intelligence". Set Messages to Focus. Turn off Send Read Receipts. Also turn on Filter Unknown Senders. Install and enable Hiya or similar for calls. Adjust your notification settings for apps like Lyft, Uber, and Uber Eats. They like to spam notifications as ads. For adblocking, 1Blocker and AdGuard work great. For YouTube on mobile web, use Vinegar. I am 99% protected from ads with this setup For the remaining, use old.reddit.com. For websites with annoying subscription popovers, use reader mode. This doesn't work everywhere but does in a lot of places. After all this filtering, I have absolutely no interest in anything that gets through.
- boredatoms 2y agoNote, “Apple Intelligence” keeps turning itself back on after each update
- mateusz_ 2y agoThen moving to EU would do the trick. We still don't have it
- stevage 2y agoYou know that's literally impossible for most people, right?
- makeitdouble 2y agoMoving to the EU also fixes a lot of privacy and regulatory issues. I still can't believe the EU ended up with the first official and fully legally protected alternative app store, it would have sounded crazy a decade ago.
- scarface_74 2y agoThen we would have to deal with more pop ups. EU laws has led to as much enshittification of the web as any adtech company.
- jdthedisciple 2y agoEasy if you don't have or don't care enough about family who may be in an emergency to reach out to you.
- kelvinjps10 2y agoThere is a feature to set do not disturb to allow notifications from certain contacts, or types of notifications. I have set it up to receive chats frlm family and calls
- moogleii 2y agoOn iOS, you can break through dnd with repeated calls (unless you turn that off, too).
- karaterobot 2y agoIt's as though, as we get more and more addicted to phones, smaller and smaller acts of willpower count as worthy of bragging about.
- jwnin 2y agoWould be interested in seeing how the author's position has evolved in a few years when her children are in school, have activities, are with friends and need a pick up.
- luxurytent 2y agoMy phone is set to DND, but I have exceptions for parental friends, school, WhatsApp (as we use it exclusively for parent groups) The rest can stay quiet. Takes some effort to get everything fine tuned but worth it
- bgm1975 2y agoYou can set contacts to bypass do-not-disturb settings. At least on the iPhone you can.
- stevage 2y ago>I’ve still had to work on my self-discipline, so that I don’t spend all my time checking my phone to see what I’ve missed. This is, arguably, the hardest part – the lure of a potential unread message can be profound Yep, you can either poll, or you can respond to interrupts. Me, my phone is usually not on DND but it's always on silent. I turn off notifications for everything except messaging apps. Most apps end abusing them sooner or later to send you marketing nonsense, or "you haven't used me in a while, I'm lonely" crap. I'm amazed anyone can get anything done with noisy/vibratey notifications.
- hiisukun 2y agoI'd love for a half half solution here. Where the phone collects notifications silently for an hour, then if there are any meeting the "alert" bar, it just buzzes or tones on the hour. Or whatever interval I choose. I think a few times a day is plenty for my notifications, except for a couple of close friends and family -- but they're all in the same bucket. An app I installed yesterday who's messages I need but are not urgent, and a lifelong friend? Same value to the phone OS. I'm thankful for the star contacts on Android working through dnd, but would love an aggregate/timed system for bulk stuff.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoiOS has this https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/07/07/how-to-use-notification-summary-iphone-ipad/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/07/07/how-to-use-notifica...
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- bentt 2y agoIt seems like it would be in the phone companies's best interests to clean up phone calls. The one case where we should be willing to interrupt what we're doing is when someone calls. That's how it always was and it was okay. The breakdown was when calling became impersonal, with telemarketing. But I remember a time years ago when a phone call meant something.
- Havoc 2y agoGoing on about a decade now. Plus carrying two phones and get mails and chats round the clock thanks to colleagues in different timezones so anything else would just lead to actual insanity
- blisterpeanuts 2y agoI've kept my Android phone on silent for years. I just don't like it beeping and interrupting all the time. I do miss a few phone calls but I figure, they'll leave a message if it's important. Silent mode and face down really quiets down one's day and puts the phone back in its place as a tool you use only when you need it.
- robertclaus 2y agoI've pretty much always kept my phone on silent. I don't mind notifications while I'm on my phone anyways, but if I do manage not to check on it for a while I see that as a good thing.
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- jc_811 2y agoFor the past 10 years I’ve only allowed two types of “notifications” Phone calls. Vibration allowed, never sound. Text/whatsapp messages. They are allowed to simply appear on the lock screen. No vibrations, no sound. That’s it, for everything else I have to manually open the app to check it. It’s shocking to me to see how the vast majority of people live with a constant barrage of notifications of which a huge majority are spam and/or not important at all.
- SebFender 2y agoDid the same to my mind at 36 - Now 50 and feeling great.
- Brajeshwar 2y agoMy mandatory plug for a non-disturbed phone https://phone.wtf https://phone.wtf
- QuiEgo 2y agoI just use tiered notifications. Messaging apps or things I should respond to immediately have push notifications on (interrupts). Things I don’t need to reply to urgently like email only have badge icons (red counter) (so, polled). I go zero inbox and clean until the badges are all gone at least once a day. Most apps have notifications disabled. I really can’t stand any social media stuff giving notifications. It should never ever rise to “interrupt” priority. For me.