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kryptonianCodeMonkey Jul 6, 2024

Do not know how many times I’ve been driving down the road peacefully listening to an audiobook when my family or friends start a conversation in a group chat that pings every 3 to 10 seconds with new replies or notifications that someone “loved” a comment or some shit.

My phone: “The truth was evident all along. In fact, the killer was…” PING … “evident all along…” PING… “evident all along. In fact,…” PING… “evident all along. In fact, the killer was right under…” PING…

Me: “For the love of God, SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

Phone: PING

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What would your ideal fix be? “Mute for one hour“, a prompt to pause notifications just for that chat until no sooner than audio is paused…?

Also would putting your phone on silent work? Maybe a “driving” focus mode if you’re on iOS where you allowlist only certain conversations…

([iOS] Nope can’t do that, maybe silent mode or muting that conversation it is… the latter of which can not be done with a shortcut!)

Room for improvement!

How to add group texts to iOS 16 focus mo… - Apple Community

LesserAbe Jul 7, 2024

As others have suggest putting the phone in vibrate should prevent this issue.

But I think the correct approach is that the sounds should okay overlapped. What the parent comment to yours was talking about was the preferred audio playback is paused so the intruding audio can be played, and then the podcast/audiobook will rewind for a second before restarting play. Just mix the audio from both together instead.

chiliedogg Jul 7, 2024

My ideal fix would be waterboarding people who design apps that ping me every time someone that isn’t me reacts to a comment that isn’t mine in a group text I didn’t start.

I fucking hate my family chats for this. My mom and my In-Laws all have iPhones, so of course they’re always using the chat app reactions on everything. For some reason, that apparently means I need to receive said reaction as a separate text message on android. The text “Lexi: laughed at ‘The dog farted’” never needs to be sent to my phone. Even worse is when we share baby photos or something and suddenly 20 instances of “Mom: Loved an image” “Adam: Laughed at an image” “Dad: Liked an image” start crowding out the actual conversation. I don’t even know what specific images they’re referencing! Why do I need those texts!? And don’t get me started on the potato quality of videos because Apple refuses to use anything but their proprietary compression software and doesn’t allow Android to properly decompress them.

What Android version are you on? Or perhaps which messaging app are you using?

Google started intercepting those reactions a couple of years ago. Do see if you can enable a "show iPhone reactions as emoji” option under some Advanced message settings.

Potato quality videos due to Apple’s absurdly greedy business practices may finally be resolved in iOS 18. s/o to Apple for waiting until European regulators turned the microscope on them to think about mitigating, amongst other things, some of the bullying the youngins get for “ruining” group chats by daring to have budget (or high-end but non-Apple) phones.

Google just fixed this big iMessage frustration on Android

This iMessage fix in Google Messages is for beta users only

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I use the messages app, I believe the default on Samsung phones. It’s up to date on android version, 14. I’ll look more into it to see if I can eliminate that annoyance.

MindTraveller Jul 7, 2024

One of the unsung advantages of being trans and having bigoted parents is not having to deal with that bullshit. I can’t imagine loving and valuing my parents, that sounds like hell.

Emerald (she/her)Jul 7, 2024

This comment emits a very strange energy.

apple.com/feedback (/messages-ios-ipados.html)

You sure that’s a strong enough punishment?

Very silly it can’t be disabled - why not hide some advanced settings deep in iOS somewhere? Guess only 1% of people ever complain…

Speaking of complaining! They do care about their little feedback form:

Feedback - Messages for iOS and iPadOS - Apple

Apple wants to hear from you. Send us your comments and feedback about Messages

I can think of a few ways. If I’m driving, my phone is connected to my cars Bluetooth and alerts me to incoming texts visually with pop up on my dash screen. I would prefer if I could chose to have me notifications default to just a screen popup on the car instead of interrupting audio while they’re connected. (the actual pop up blocks literally everything in the screen and never disappears until it is replaced by another popup or you press “ignore”, which is terrible design, but that’s toyota’s fault not my phone’s).

And at no time have I ever needed to have my phone ding back to back to back. I would also like the ability to set it to only ding once every, say, 30 seconds (let the user choose the time frame) if i haven’t picked up my phone in between. If multiple notifications come up in that time, once was enough to let me know I have something waiting. I’ll get to it when I get to it.

Great ideas!

I think I do like (at least vibrations) back to back cuz I think I’ll subconsciously count them and kinda understand the scale of what I’ll find when I can check the phone… but how long could that option take to add, I wonder. Mayyyybe it’s the regression testing / interop testing that it complicates, generally speaking?

Baylahoo Jul 7, 2024

There was a feature I had on android several years ago where you could limit notification sounds by time. You could pick from 1 to like 10 minutes. The first one would ping you and the rest for that timeframe would be silent notifications until the timeframe ended and treated the next one like normal.

Yes! I want this. Bring it back!

SkaveRat Jul 7, 2024

I think they added something like that in the newest android