Turn off audio notifications for mobile

[captain_to_fire]

Whenever I play music with my phone and browse the LTT forum, I can’t help but scratch my head whenever LTT notifications pauses the music I’m playing using my phone. Not really a big deal but if I’m in a very active thread, it’ll pause music playback continuously. 

 

Despite the fact that the LTT notification sound only works on desktop and not mobile. This is probably too much to ask but I’m hoping in the future the pausing of music playback while receiving an LTT notification can be turned off. ?

[Guest]

You could get the notifications to be sent to your own email address. Have you tried opening 2 web browsers at a time (chrome+firefox), 1 browser has LTT forums on it and the other has the music playback?

[captain_to_fire]

3 minutes ago, TheBeastPC said:

You could get the notifications to be sent to your own email address. Have you tried opening 2 web browsers at a time (chrome+firefox), 1 browser has LTT forums on it and the other has the music playback?

I don’t like to spam my own inbox. All I ask is if it’s possible to get rid of the “pausing of music playback because of LTT notifications” on my iPhone. Also, I don’t use the browser for my music playback. I use the dedicated Music app. 

[LogicalDrm]

I wonder which part is the one controlling that. Forum setting or browser setting. Latter will be up to you and browsers devs.

[ProjectBox153]

I agree with this. I keep the ringer on my iPhone off all the time, but the music will randomly pause. It’s quite annoying. 

[captain_to_fire]

2 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I wonder which part is the one controlling that. Forum setting or browser setting. Latter will be up to you and browsers devs.

Looks like the latter is impossible since I’m using an iPhone. When I’m with my laptop I like the sound notification but when I’m on my phone playing music, it’s a little bit frustrating. 

[captain_to_fire]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

I agree with this. I keep the ringer on my iPhone off all the time, but the music will randomly pause. It’s quite annoying. 

You just paused the playback of 50 ways to say goodbye by Train on my iPhone. ?

 

But yea it’s a little bit annoying tbh. 

[ProjectBox153]

15 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

You just paused the playback of 50 ways to say goodbye by Train on my iPhone. ?

 

But yea it’s a little bit annoying tbh. 

Sorry about that. It is actually very annoying. I’m surprised nobody brought it up earlier. 

[captain_to_fire]

10 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Sorry about that. It is actually very annoying. I’m surprised nobody brought it up earlier. 

Nah it’s fine. I’m actually surprised that up to this day no one brought it up to the admins. 

[Dujith]

Is this not something you must set within your browser on the phone? The notification calls upon the browsers api i would guess.

At least on android i can disable notifications from certain sites in chrome.

[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, Dujith said:

Is this not something you must set within your browser on the phone? The notification calls upon the browsers api i would guess.

At least on android i can disable notifications from certain sites in chrome.

I can’t do that on iOS unfortunately. Looks like the minority in the forum is pretty much screwed ?

[Dujith]

1 minute ago, hey_yo_ said:

I can’t do that on iOS unfortunately. Looks like the minority in the forum is pretty much screwed ?

Not in the notification Center? there you should be able to see your browser app (Safari?) and disable sound notification there?

[colonel_mortis]

It's partly a browser issue, because the browser both doesn't play the notification sound, and acquires an exclusive lock on audio playback. Unfortunately, that means that there's not likely to be anything we can do about it directly. There is a setting to disable notification sounds at the bottom of the top section of https://linustechtips.com/main/notifications/options/, but I think that will disable it for all your devices, not just the current one. I can try to convince the devs to allow it to be disabled per device or to not try to play sounds on iOS, but they have historically been very resistant to adding workarounds for bugs that they don't perceive as their fault, even when the workaround is easy to implement and affects their product.

 

Does this occur in Chrome and Safari, or just one of them?

 

Disabling notifications won't help this issue.

[captain_to_fire]

8 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

Does this occur in Chrome and Safari, or just one of them?

Both. 

9 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

Unfortunately, that means that there's not likely to be anything we can do about it directly. There is a setting to disable notification sounds at the bottom of the top section of https://linustechtips.com/main/notifications/options/, but I think that will disable it for all your devices, not just the current one. I can try to convince the devs to allow it to be disabled per device or to not try to play sounds on iOS, but they have historically been very resistant to adding workarounds for bugs that they don't perceive as their fault, even when the workaround is easy to implement and affects their product.

Well that’s unfortunate but thank you for the clarification 

[captain_to_fire]

11 minutes ago, Dujith said:

Not in the notification Center? there you should be able to see your browser app (Safari?) and disable sound notification there?

Nothing like that on iOS unfortunately unlike Android 

[NinJake]

There's gotta be a setting even in iOS somewhere... just keep digging!