Notification Digest Feature

Requests for grouping notifications, scheduled delivery of batched notifications, cooldown periods between buzzes, Android 15 notification cooldown feature

Users are increasingly seeking granular control over notification frequency, specifically requesting "cooldown" periods to prevent repetitive buzzing from high-activity apps. While Android 15’s new cooldown feature offers a partial solution, many commenters advocate for a more sophisticated "notification digest" that batches low-priority alerts into scheduled summaries while allowing urgent messages to break through immediately. Beyond simple batching, there is significant interest in intelligent filters that could delay alerts until a user has already interacted with their device or group notifications by specific app categories to minimize digital noise.

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This looks nice! I had no idea you could actually control notifications as an app.

One thing I've always wanted is the ability to "group" notifications.

Apps like WhatsApp can be really bad for pinging lots of times within a minute for individual messages. I really don't need my phone to buzz more than once every five minutes, and wish I could set rules like "don't buzz for x minutes after a notification".

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Since Android 15, Google Pixel phones have a "notification cooldown" that sort of fixes this. Hopefully it makes it's way to all Android phones at some point.

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-notification-coo...

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That would be nice.. or at least, don't buzz unless it's after I've activated and interacted with the phone/app in question.

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I recently played around with a similar idea, but with the added feature that notifications would be sent together in a single notification from the app at scheduled times, optionally grouped by app

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My approach to this problem is to not install apps that could be websites, and to remove apps that send me useless notifications. Some apps use notification categories, which gives the user some control.

A feature that would make this app useful to me is a notification digest as a third option in addition to allow and deny. The digest would hold certain notifications and show them to me all at once on a schedule I set.

For a concrete use case, I have low-priority group chats and high-priority direct messages in the same messaging app. I want the direct messages to interrupt me at any time, and I want to be told I have unread group chats a couple times a day without having to poll them manually.

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