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?

  • fmstratA
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    1426 days ago

    I bet you use an iPhone, right?

    • @mrnarwall@lemmy.worldOP
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      225 days 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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        524 days 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!

      • fmstratA
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        225 days ago

        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.

        • @mrnarwall@lemmy.worldOP
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          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