You know what I miss about iPods and older style mp3 players? Nobody interrupted my music with their bullshit.
These days every notification tries to pull you away from your music and honestly that sucks. When I’m driving and I want to belt out the croaky renditions of my favorite songs, nobody else’s bullshit should be able to take me away from that moment.
Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn’t constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it’s when my significant other messages me.
My phone has been on DnD for over a year now. I have a (cheap) smart watch which vibrates on certain alerts like message, calendar, and phone and I can quickly glance and see that it’s something I don’t care about. I also ignore the calls from numbers not in my contacts if I notice them. In the time I’ve been doing this I don’t think a single person has left a message on my voicemail - validating my actions.
It’s so nice to feel like tech isn’t running your life anymore. If I’m in an app doing something, it’s because I made the choice to do it. I still gotta work on that doom scrolling tho, YouTube being the biggest culprit. I think I might try setting some time limits.
I just bought a audio player, mostly because I don’t have good internet at my house and files was taking up a lot of space. Plus it has Bluetooth transmit and receive.
The fact that you have to set iPhones to only vibrate and Androids to “do not disturb” to achieve uninterrupted audio playback, is why aliens make a detour around earth.
Just don’t let any of your apps have permission to send you notifications. I don’t let messages notify me. I check when I check. The only app that has permission to notify me of anything is the phone app because I’m too scared there’ll be an emergency.
You know what I miss about iPods and older style mp3 players? Nobody interrupted my music with their bullshit.
These days every notification tries to pull you away from your music and honestly that sucks. When I’m driving and I want to belt out the croaky renditions of my favorite songs, nobody else’s bullshit should be able to take me away from that moment.
Like when the guidance lady interrupts the beat drop to tell me to turn left 😡😡
Nothing worse than jumping back a few seconds only to realize the moment and feeling are lost now. It’s never the same 😒
That’s exactly why you disable voice directions unless it’s the highway and the next one is in 1 hour.
Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn’t constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it’s when my significant other messages me.
My phone has been on DnD for over a year now. I have a (cheap) smart watch which vibrates on certain alerts like message, calendar, and phone and I can quickly glance and see that it’s something I don’t care about. I also ignore the calls from numbers not in my contacts if I notice them. In the time I’ve been doing this I don’t think a single person has left a message on my voicemail - validating my actions.
It’s so nice to feel like tech isn’t running your life anymore. If I’m in an app doing something, it’s because I made the choice to do it. I still gotta work on that doom scrolling tho, YouTube being the biggest culprit. I think I might try setting some time limits.
I’m pretty sure you can do that with Do Not Disturb on Android?
Yep, pretty easy solution.
Yup, and iphone has basically the same thing
Simple fix, just don’t have any friends like me! 😉
This is one of many reasons why I root my phone and make sure that Do Not Disturb mode actually does what it says on the tin.
That said, I still keep my old 1st Gen iPhone around because it’s now just a more expensive iPod Touch and works great for playing music.
What does do not disturb not do normally? I have it set to turn off all sounds and vibrations except alarms. What more could you want?
I just bought a audio player, mostly because I don’t have good internet at my house and files was taking up a lot of space. Plus it has Bluetooth transmit and receive.
The fact that you have to set iPhones to only vibrate and Androids to “do not disturb” to achieve uninterrupted audio playback, is why aliens make a detour around earth.
This comment gave me a good chuckle 😂
Just don’t let any of your apps have permission to send you notifications. I don’t let messages notify me. I check when I check. The only app that has permission to notify me of anything is the phone app because I’m too scared there’ll be an emergency.