I am considering moving from an iPhone to the Google Pixel 2. As a smaller jump and to try the Android world I first replaced my iPad with an Android tablet (WiFi only).
I love it but it has been a pain because of spamming notifications that I can't seem to stop. As I rely on Notifications to alert me of important stuff, notification spam is a device breaker for me.
For other apps that spam the fix is simple, just disable all Notifications for the app. But for messaging apps (Hangouts, Android Messages, etc) to be useful I need to stop spam while still receiving new message notifications. This has been hard to do, and I must find a solution before I move to an Android phone:
- First notification spam came from Hangouts. Since I am a user of Google Voice, my GV SMS messages come through Hangouts. But since Google insists that we use Android Messages for SMS (even on devices with no cellular service), Hangouts now constantly spams a notification about it.
- No problem I thought, I'll use Android Messages and it will stop the Hangouts spam. It did, but as soon as I started using that preinstalled app it started spamming me with advertising notifications, and it has no settings to control those spam advertising notifications. I could either disable ALL notifications for the App or get rid of it. Since an SMS app that can't notify you when new messages arrive is worthless and the only other choice was to accept the advertising spam, I uninstalled it. Notification peace returned, but so did the Hangouts constant single spam. Still, better to get one constant spam than many advertising ones.
- Next I figured, maybe I can get rid of the spam by installing a different SMS app that doesn't spam advertising garbage. But no luck, since my tablet has no cellular service they won't even install from Google Play.
Is there any way to turn off Android Messages spam notifications while keeping the notifications for newly arrived messages?
What other options do I have?
Is there ***any app*** that will allow me to receive Google Voice SMS messages on a WiFi-only tablet and that displays notifications when messages arrive without spamming me with other notifications?
I love it but it has been a pain because of spamming notifications that I can't seem to stop. As I rely on Notifications to alert me of important stuff, notification spam is a device breaker for me.
For other apps that spam the fix is simple, just disable all Notifications for the app. But for messaging apps (Hangouts, Android Messages, etc) to be useful I need to stop spam while still receiving new message notifications. This has been hard to do, and I must find a solution before I move to an Android phone:
- First notification spam came from Hangouts. Since I am a user of Google Voice, my GV SMS messages come through Hangouts. But since Google insists that we use Android Messages for SMS (even on devices with no cellular service), Hangouts now constantly spams a notification about it.
- No problem I thought, I'll use Android Messages and it will stop the Hangouts spam. It did, but as soon as I started using that preinstalled app it started spamming me with advertising notifications, and it has no settings to control those spam advertising notifications. I could either disable ALL notifications for the App or get rid of it. Since an SMS app that can't notify you when new messages arrive is worthless and the only other choice was to accept the advertising spam, I uninstalled it. Notification peace returned, but so did the Hangouts constant single spam. Still, better to get one constant spam than many advertising ones.
- Next I figured, maybe I can get rid of the spam by installing a different SMS app that doesn't spam advertising garbage. But no luck, since my tablet has no cellular service they won't even install from Google Play.
Is there any way to turn off Android Messages spam notifications while keeping the notifications for newly arrived messages?
What other options do I have?
Is there ***any app*** that will allow me to receive Google Voice SMS messages on a WiFi-only tablet and that displays notifications when messages arrive without spamming me with other notifications?