We receive dozens of notifications per day. Difficult under these conditions not to miss one or two important messages. To not miss anything, remember to set up notification reminders on your Android smartphone..
Manage your notifications well
Smartphones are wonderful tools for staying connected to the world. As soon as a friend comments on a photo on Facebook, text or retweet one of your jokes, a small pop-up appears on your phone. It is certainly very practical but by force you risk being overwhelmed by this incessant flood of alert.
Obviously it is practically impossible to carefully check each of the information that reaches us. Sometimes we miss certain important notifications. It is therefore necessary to set up an efficient management of notifications..
For example, start to dissociate the sound emitted by your different applications. A notification notifying you of the arrival of an SMS or a missed call does not have the same degree of importance as an alert that informs you of a Facebook like. Knowing that your Tati did a like on your last post on a baby bear may not be worth bothering in the middle of your work meeting.
Automatic reminder of missed notifications
Have you ever missed an important notification like the arrival of an e-mail or an SMS? By dint of hearing one's smartphone ring for a yes or a no, we sometimes end up not paying attention to it. Notifications stack on top of each other on the lock screen. Besides, many users no longer even bother to unlock their smartphones to read their notifications..
To be sure not to miss any SMS or e-mail, it is best to schedule an automatic reminder of missed notifications. The principle is similar to that of calendar reminders. So each time you receive an important notification that has received no response from you, your phone will ring to alert you of its presence.
Unfortunately Android only offers this type of functionality by default. You will therefore need to download a tool from the Play Store to perform this task. In this tutorial we have selected Missed Notifications Reminder which has the advantage of being open source.
- Launch the Google Play Store
- Download the Missed Notifications Reminder app
- Allow the app to access your notifications as well as the storage space
- If your smartphone is running Android Marshmallow or Nougat, you will also have to exclude Missed Notifications Reminder from the Doze battery optimizer
- To do this, simply follow the information displayed on the screen.
- In the next step, you will be asked to select the applications for which you want their notifications to benefit from the reminder system.
- Check the corresponding box then assign an interval between each reminder
Now you just have to do a little test. With this system, you will no longer be able to miss important alerts. Without even touching the screen of your smartphone, the tool will notify you of the presence of urgent notifications by a beep and a vibration.
Note that Missed Notifications Reminder also offers an option to define a time period during which you do not wish to receive reminders. This can be very useful especially if you receive messages very late. It is never funny to be woken up in the middle of the night by notification reminders.