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?

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I just set group chat notifications to silent.

    I still get a notification that’s easy to spot in the tray/bar, but it doesn’t play sound or vibrate, so it’s not distracting unless I’m already looking at the screen.

    • mrnarwall@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      3 months 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
        1·
        3 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!