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There needs to be a way to only get one push notification for every new message in a group chat (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh, what app are you using for messaging? I would be interested to know how Buzzkill works for you. I use Tasker to customize mine a lot, but a formal solution might be worth trying if it's good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm using the default messages app on my Google phone. The biggest source of my annoyance is every iPhone user adding reactions and such, which act like a new message for me. So any group chat may as well be a fireworks display of sounds and vibrations when it is active. I've only set one rule to cool down on messages for 5 minutes and it's already made an impact.

The app lets me make specific rules for each app, but I don't see a way to do a rule per group chat, which would be ideal, but this is already an improvement

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Try using Google Messages instead. It will apply iPhone reactions instead of making new massages.