Comment by princevegeta89
2 months ago
I use an app called BuzzKill on Android for achieving this and many more things. I usually keep my notification bar at an absolute minimum when it comes to the number of notifications, but this app allows me to set rules for notifications based on their content. By default, all apps that I use have notifications turned off by default and they also get into deep sleep mode. So I'm sure they are not even running after a while. Only apps like WhatsApp, Slack, Signal can receive notifications. And by using the rules on Buzzkill, I am also able to automatically discard marketing notifications and useless notifications from these apps as well.
For an app like Google Maps though, I completely turned off notifications because there's really no need for me to have them. If you go into the notification settings through the Google Maps app, it's a big shitshow because it has some 40 categories that you will have to manually manage and I'm sure this was designed for the very purpose of letting users become tired after looking at them and then leave things as is.
Similarly, I do think the vast majority of the apps that we use don't need to send us any notifications at all. Thanks to Android for adding this feature to block all notifications from apps some four years ago, I guess.
I second Buzzkill. My comment was going to be "What does this do that Buzzkill doesn't?"
Honestly I did not know about Buzzkill. I suppose the big differentiator is that DoNotNotify is absolutely free.
Well yeah, it's great that you made a free app that can do similar things, I was just pointing at an alternative that folks can try.
Glad there are other options! Before Buzzkill I used another app that stopped being maintained and then stopped working on newer Androids. I had to deal with notifications for a year before I found Buzzkill.