On your phone in particular. I have all turned off except for signal messages from a few people.
Side question: Have you or anyone you’ve known “rang the bell” on content on youtube, twitch, etc? For how many channels? What (kind of dystopian nightmare) was that like?
Messages.
Just a bunch of NTFY notifications for various checks on my self hosted services and signal for the fam.
Yeah I have a script that just archives all old/recent content from people that refuse to leave YouTube (looking at you Black Liberation Media and Diallo Kenyatta). That’s the extent of my ring the bell
If you mean audio alerts, none except phone calls and SMS. I do get a visual alert (little dot next to the home screen icon) when I have unread email, and there are a few more of those I guess. Oh yes, the alarm clock and timer, which I use sometimes, make sounds.
My sister misplaces her iphone in the house all the time, and uses Apple “Find My” to get it to make a very loud noise that helps her locate it. It’s way louder than a normal phone ring. I’d like to have something like that for Android, which sets off the noise if I send an SMS with a special code. In general though, I want my phone to not interrupt me except for occasional realtime communications with known humans.
I’m angry enough that people made me get a smart phone, I’m not gonna actually use it like one. All off.
- Messages from friends, partner and family.
- Emails about package arrivals.
- Servers going down.
Everything else only comes in once per day at a specific time.
Alarms, calls, and messages only.
I have all notifications turned off except for calls and texts. I tried the bell thing on for every channel i subscribed to on youtube it was absolutely hell. Thats what made me turn it all off in the first place. Every minute there was something new. And since notifications were on i’d also get those unnecessary shit that apps thought I needed to know right this second. Ever since i turned all notifications off my life has been so calm. Especially getting rid of the bubbles on app was so liberating.
Mainly just notifications from app stores like Google Play, F-Droid and Nutaku. I do occasionally receive notifications from other apps such as Google Opinion Rewards and Proton Mail. Then very rarely, I do also receive calls and texts but it’s mostly just scams and otherwise unknown numbers.
As for your side question, I used to because it used to be useful. Several years ago, Google broke YouTube’s email notifications and refused to fix it. Then at some point, they acted like no one wanted them and just removed them. Luckly, RSS feeds still work, YouTube doesn’t tell you they exist but they do.
- XMPP
- Signal
- SMS (contacts only)
- E-Mail (only a handful of important contacts, forwarded to an inbox specifically for my phone)
- Voice calls automatically dismissed with a missed call notification. Colleagues, friends, and family are aware that I’ll initiate the return call.
- Task reminders at one point, but later switched to paper planners.
Total: about 5 to 20 on any given day
Haven’t ever felt the need to get YT or other subscriber notifications and one of the first things I do when setting up a new browser is disabling all requests for notification permissions.
