[sidfthec]

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]

> 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.

[switchbak]

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.

[hotnfresh]

Pretty sure you can allow-list call and text notifications by contact on iOS. I’d be surprised if you can’t on Android.

[sidfthec]

> 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.

[lozf]

Nearly as bad as key-tones / clicks. I don't want to hear every time you tap.