| I have strict notification settings on my iPhone. 1. All banner notifications are turned off (this might change if you can swipe up to temporarily hide them like on Android). 1. Only a couple of important messaging apps (SMS, Signal) give me real notifications: the phone vibrates and they appear (hidden) on the lock screen. 2. Other messages like Slack and get delivered to the notification center, but can't appear on the lock screen. 3. Notifications that I need to eventually respond to are set to badge only. The badge count annoys me so I eventually look at it, but notifications that I'm intentionally delaying don't busy up the notification center. I've found that this only somewhat works and also drives a new behavior. Previously I wouldn't check my phone unless I was bored and wanted to read something like Twitter or Hacker News. Now, however, I'm grabbing my phone often to see if I had quiet notifications delivered. In some ways this is worse than just letting the phone buzz. The mental distraction from thinking "I have have a Slack message" seems to loom more than the knowledge that something came in that I'm ignoring in order to focus. |