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The buzzing would happen whether or not I look at my device. It only annoys you if I don't look at it?

sidfthec 3y ago
It annoys me either way. Just put your phone on silent (unless you have certain contacts that need to get through in an emergency). It's especially annoying when you don't look at your phone because you're just making noise for no reason. It's on the same level as playing music through your phone on the subway with no regard for those around you. I know someone who will sit there for an hour texting people and each text that comes in rings the phone. They're literally staring at their phone and think that they need the ringer on.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  > each text that comes in rings the phone That's the problem right there. but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it. So that person is helpless trying to choose between not knowing when somebody texts or having the phone ring all the time. It's not their fault that they don't have any reasonable option.
  - sidfthec 3y ago
    > but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it. Three actions (volume button, tap, tap) on my Android to turn my phone from ringer on to silent isn't that bad. And even though I don't have an iOS device, I'd hardly say they're built to be ad-delivery platforms. iOS isn't really in the ad business as much.
    - freedomben 3y ago
      My biggest problem is forgetting to un-silence it. I'll literally go days and miss tons of important calls/texts before I remember to check. I used to do that all the time but stopped after missing a some very important calls.
  - switchbak 3y ago
    That's exactly it. The companies behind the devices have a negative incentive to solve the annoyance issue for you, since your annoyance (attention) is their flow of income. Like why do I need to be repeat notified if someone texts me 3 times quickly in a row? We ought to have some kind of an agent system that can handle these things somewhat intelligently. Apple is doing a little better in this regard, but I can't help but feel that in the OSS world we would have had a bunch of solutions to this by now. In a fragmented fashion with terrible usability, of course.
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    - brewdad 3y ago
      My favorite bit of Apple user experience is when I get a text and don't read it immediately. My phone will buzz me again two minutes later to really reinforce the urgency. /s
      - weikju 3y ago
        Settings -> Messages -> Notifications -> Customize Notifications -> Repeat alerts -> Never
  - hotnfresh 3y ago
    Pretty sure you can allow-list call and text notifications by contact on iOS. I’d be surprised if you can’t on Android.
- laputan_machine 3y ago
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- lozf 3y ago
  Nearly as bad as key-tones / clicks. I don't want to hear every time you tap.
deaddodo 3y ago
It's annoying, period. You're forcing me to listen to your life events in an annoyingly prodding manner. However, I can tolerate it if there's reasoning. If you simply don't care and let a device make incessant irritating noises, now you're just being annoying.

It annoys me either way. Just put your phone on silent (unless you have certain contacts that need to get through in an emergency). It's especially annoying when you don't look at your phone because you're just making noise for no reason. It's on the same level as playing music through your phone on the subway with no regard for those around you. I know someone who will sit there for an hour texting people and each text that comes in rings the phone. They're literally staring at their phone and think that they need the ringer on.

marcosdumay 3y ago
> each text that comes in rings the phone That's the problem right there. but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it. So that person is helpless trying to choose between not knowing when somebody texts or having the phone ring all the time. It's not their fault that they don't have any reasonable option.
- sidfthec 3y ago
  > but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it. Three actions (volume button, tap, tap) on my Android to turn my phone from ringer on to silent isn't that bad. And even though I don't have an iOS device, I'd hardly say they're built to be ad-delivery platforms. iOS isn't really in the ad business as much.
  - freedomben 3y ago
    My biggest problem is forgetting to un-silence it. I'll literally go days and miss tons of important calls/texts before I remember to check. I used to do that all the time but stopped after missing a some very important calls.
- switchbak 3y ago
  That's exactly it. The companies behind the devices have a negative incentive to solve the annoyance issue for you, since your annoyance (attention) is their flow of income. Like why do I need to be repeat notified if someone texts me 3 times quickly in a row? We ought to have some kind of an agent system that can handle these things somewhat intelligently. Apple is doing a little better in this regard, but I can't help but feel that in the OSS world we would have had a bunch of solutions to this by now. In a fragmented fashion with terrible usability, of course.
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  - brewdad 3y ago
    My favorite bit of Apple user experience is when I get a text and don't read it immediately. My phone will buzz me again two minutes later to really reinforce the urgency. /s
    - weikju 3y ago
      Settings -> Messages -> Notifications -> Customize Notifications -> Repeat alerts -> Never
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  Pretty sure you can allow-list call and text notifications by contact on iOS. I’d be surprised if you can’t on Android.
laputan_machine 3y ago
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lozf 3y ago
Nearly as bad as key-tones / clicks. I don't want to hear every time you tap.

deaddodo 3y ago

It's annoying, period. You're forcing me to listen to your life events in an annoyingly prodding manner. However, I can tolerate it if there's reasoning. If you simply don't care and let a device make incessant irritating noises, now you're just being annoying.