Starting in Android 15 QPR1, Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than 2 weeks old.
  • @catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    26•2 days ago

    Who the fuck either has sound turned on that often, or has notifications that old?

    I didn’t even know notifications could make noise past their initial display.

    • @smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      The example given in the article is for a device you don’t turn on that often

    • AmbiguousPropsEnglish
      7•2 days ago

      I think the only time I’ve experienced this is when I had my phone off for weeks and still used Gmail. It spammed me on boot with tons of old email notifications.

      • a baby duckEnglish
        1•1 day ago

        Is there a mail client you prefer, by the way? I’ve been pretty happy with Spark for a while now, but I don’t care about their AI features and I’d really like Gmail tag support.

        • AmbiguousPropsEnglish
          1•1 day ago

          I use FairEmail these days. It might have tag support, if it does though it’s not enabled by default. It has no AI features.

      • @CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
        2•2 days ago

        Messenger is the worst for this especially since I only have my work phone on half the time so I tend to get a lot of old notifications for messages I’ve already read when I turn it on.

    • dantheclammanEnglish
      1•2 days ago

      When I’m traveling and my tablet reconnects to wifi, I get a surge of vibrations. So the combo of notification sync and this feature sounds like it will finally solve that problem!

  • OrbituaryEnglish
    12•2 days ago

    What I’d like is the ability to rate limit notifications. If I get a notification from a text, then the same person or same app notifies me within 15 seconds because of another incoming message, I want it to only notify me once.

    I have to have sound/vibration on for work due to the type of industry I’m in, but sometimes if there are a bunch of active conversations going on, my phone is vibrating like a sex toy and I just get exhausted.

      • OrbituaryEnglish
        3•2 days ago

        Well, that’s cool. I have searched a few times over the years for this, but stopped looking eventually.

        Did you purchase it? If so, do you find that it works?

        • @Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
          1•4 hours ago

          I bought it, I really like it. It’s simple to set up.

          Only glitch is sometimes it mutes an audiobook for a second when a notification comes in, even though you don’t hear the notification

        • @Katrisia@lemm.eeEnglish
          1•10 hours ago

          I honestly haven’t used it enough to know how well it works, but their advertisement has the cooldown thing mentioned. I hope it works for you.