Heads Up Off AND Working Ambient Notifications - Google Pixel 2 XL Themes, Apps, and Mods

I posted this over in the walleye forum and figured that taimen users might benefit from it too.
Have you noticed that if you disable Heads Up with
Code:
settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0
that Ambient Notifications are disabled too?
This Tasker Profile disables heads up while screen is on, but enables heads up (Ambient Notifications) when screen is off.
Required:
Tasker
Root
Instructions:
Import the Tasker profile and enable it.

Help me understand. Why do some people not want heads-up notifications?

s1dest3pnate said:
Help me understand. Why do some people not want heads-up notifications?
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If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand.

buffal0b1ll said:
If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand.
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LOL These are the type of useless replies that people talk about. Why not just explain it so people can think about and consider something that they may not have yet?

s1dest3pnate said:
LOL These are the type of useless replies that people talk about. Why not just explain it so people can think about and consider something that they may not have yet?
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Sorry for replying. It really is self explanatory. You would want to disable Heads Up if you don't like Heads Up.
If you can't decide if you like or dislike Heads Up then please continue reading.
You might want to disable Heads Up if...
you find it generally annoying
a notification in the status bar is good enough
it constantly interrupts you when you're trying to concentrate on something important
you're pissed off that Google took away our ability to control which apps can peek or not peek and with the introduction of notification channels in Oreo
you were able to come up with your own reason why you don't like Heads Up
I hope this helps

buffal0b1ll said:
Sorry for replying. It really is self explanatory. You would want to disable Heads Up if you don't like Heads Up.
If you can't decide if you like or dislike Heads Up then please continue reading.
You might want to disable Heads Up if...
you find it generally annoying
a notification in the status bar is good enough
it constantly interrupts you when you're trying to concentrate on something important
you're pissed off that Google took away our ability to control which apps can peek or not peek and with the introduction of notification channels in Oreo
you were able to come up with your own reason why you don't like Heads Up
I hope this helps
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Very good job! This is quite helpful. Thank you kindly.

s1dest3pnate said:
Very good job! This is quite helpful. Thank you kindly.
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just to give an example;
I was showing my daughter's first grade teacher pictures of our outings during the weekend. As she's looking, my navy buddy is texting me something crazy and his messages are popping up on the screen.
At that moment, i said F heads up...

dadoc04 said:
just to give an example;
I was showing my daughter's first grade teacher pictures of our outings during the weekend. As she's looking, my navy buddy is texting me something crazy and his messages are popping up on the screen.
At that moment, i said F heads up...
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Hahaha
I use Textra and it has an option to hide the sender and/or message text in notifications included heads-up. Pretty nice.

dadoc04 said:
just to give an example;
I was showing my daughter's first grade teacher pictures of our outings during the weekend. As she's looking, my navy buddy is texting me something crazy and his messages are popping up on the screen.
At that moment, i said F heads up...
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Yeah, Google's decision to take Notification Control out of System UI Tuner in favor of Oreo Notification Channels is bad. It puts it on the app developers to add notification channels to disable heads up (peeking) for every app. Google hasn't even added it to hangouts yeah. Ugh
On nougat I'd disable heads-up for all but Phone and Google Messaging, but on oreo I just disable all

I find that just having a smart watch negates the need for most notifications on the phone. I gave up on trying to get the LED light all customized, distinct sounds etc, when just a quick glance at the watch when it vibrates gives me more than enough info about what's going on...
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Thanks for this. Was bugging me bad

I dont think u even need Tasker app to disable Headsup/Peeking
just run the below command on ADB and headsup is gone for good with Ambient display working
adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0

Horoscope said:
I dont think u even need Tasker app to disable Headsup/Peeking
just run the below command on ADB and headsup is gone for good with Ambient display working
adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0
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Did you read the OP or the title of this thread? Yes you can disable heads up with that shell command or a custom QS tile that sends the same command behind the scenes.
But the side affect of turning off heads up is that ambient notifications are suppressed too. This Tasker profile uses screen on/off state to disable heads up while screen is on, but allow ambient notifications when screen is off. Get it?
You probably see Ambient display on and think it's working but send yourself a text or a hangout and or whatever and notice that when you've disabled heads up it blocks the Ambient Notification from popping up while screen is off.

buffal0b1ll said:
Did you read the OP or the title of this thread? Yes you can disable heads up with that shell command or a custom QS tile that sends the same command behind the scenes.
But the side affect of turning off heads up is that ambient notifications are suppressed too. This Tasker profile uses screen on/off state to disable heads up while screen is on, but allow ambient notifications when screen is off. Get it?
You probably see Ambient display on and think it's working but send yourself a text or a hangout and or whatever and notice that when you've disabled heads up it blocks the Ambient Notification from popping up while screen is off.
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Oh yes.. sorry I didnt realize that notifications are not popping up on Ambient display...
Will try ur profile on tasker now..

For the text message example someone gave, you could change the notification priority from Urgent to High to stop heads up notifications for that so someone doesn't see a message if you are showing them something on your phone like a picture.

s1dest3pnate said:
For the text message example someone gave, you could change the notification priority from Urgent to High to stop heads up notifications for that so someone doesn't see a message if you are showing them something on your phone like a picture.
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On nougat you could, but this interface is gone in Oreo.

buffal0b1ll said:
On nougat you could, but this interface is gone in Oreo.
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I just did it on my Pixel 2 XL on 8.1 DP2. You do it under the notification category.

s1dest3pnate said:
I just did it on my Pixel 2 XL on 8.1 DP2. You do it under the notification category.
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Exactly most apps don't have that go check out Hangouts for example you can't block peek in Hangouts.
Nougat SytemUI Tuner let us turn on Notification Control so we could set the slider to not allow Peek (Heads Up) at the system settings level for each app. But Oreo took that away. Now the Peek (Headsup) is controlled by Notification Channels which most app developers haven't included yet.

Oh ok gotcha.

buffal0b1ll said:
I posted this over in the walleye forum and figured that taimen users might benefit from it too.
Have you noticed that if you disable Heads Up with
Code:
settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0
that Ambient Notifications are disabled too?
This Tasker Profile disables heads up while screen is on, but enables heads up (Ambient Notifications) when screen is off.
Required:
Tasker
Root
Instructions:
Import the Tasker profile and enable it.
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Thanks, this works perfectly!
I was wondering how you managed to find this command:
su settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 1
I was thinking of making a tasker profile where always on display is turned on only when notification are received for certain apps like Gmail, Messenger, Messages, WhatsApp. I have a notification listener tasker profile that counts notifications from those apps and it would really be awesome to incorporate this. Does anyone know where I might be able to find the shell scripts to turn on always on display?

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[REQ] Hover / peek better blacklist

Hi, I've been using Hover for a bit and am loving it. The only slight gripe I have about it is that when I get a message through Facebook messenger, it always shows me the "chat heads active" notification before the actual message. What would be really useful is if you could blacklist these hidden (permanent? Not sure what the word is, see the attached picture) notifications that come from some apps (Google Now does it too) but still allow "normal" notifications through. This would also be really useful with peek: I'm assuming that whenever I get a Google Now notification like this, saying the weather or something my device is waking up to poll sensors etc. This isn't necessary, but I don't want to blacklist the whole app as other notifications (reminders etc.) are useful and I'd like to be able to Peek at.
Sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense, it's rather hard to describe. I know hover and peek are relatively new features and I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, but if possible it would be great
Thanks for all your great work on this ROM!
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Hi, I've been using Hover for a bit and am loving it. The only slight gripe I have about it is that when I get a message through Facebook messenger, it always shows me the "chat heads active" notification before the actual message. What would be really useful is if you could blacklist these hidden (permanent? Not sure what the word is, see the attached picture) notifications that come from some apps (Google Now does it too) but still allow "normal" notifications through. This would also be really useful with peek: I'm assuming that whenever I get a Google Now notification like this, saying the weather or something my device is waking up to poll sensors etc. This isn't necessary, but I don't want to blacklist the whole app as other notifications (reminders etc.) are useful and I'd like to be able to Peek at.
Sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense, it's rather hard to describe. I know hover and peek are relatively new features and I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, but if possible it would be great
Thanks for all your great work on this ROM!
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Long hold notification > App Info > Blacklist > Blacklist from Hover/Blacklist from Peek
Sorry, got ahead of myself.
in fact the google now notification is not a persistent one, just it does show up very frequently, and sadly there is no option on which updates we'd like to receive
had the same problem with facebook messenger, just blacklisted the whole app because as there is a chat head hover notification would be useless

[Request] Option to limit Quick Settings toggles

Quick Setting toggles in Paranoid are awesome, I really appreciate how they work.
However, I miss the option from CM to edit the toggles behaviour, intended as which options the toggle can show.
In my specific case, I would like to:
- remove the Device option from GPS toggle and use just Low/High precision
- remove LTE from Mobile Data Switcher, as I have no 4G traffic (I love Italy for this things... and sarcasm) so I can have 2G and 2G/3G (someone maybe prefer 3G only)
If anyone has any other preferences, write them below, I'd apreciate if others have my same thought.
Feature requests belong in the bug tracker
#stayparanoid
Will try to understand JIRA in this case...
also, if we could get an update on that quick notification settings so we can decide if left or right edge of screen shall pull it down.. not just random.
thank you
@Pirateghost I can't register on JIRA; is that normal?
brisac said:
also, if we could get an update on that quick notification settings so we can decide if left or right edge of screen shall pull it down.. not just random.
thank you
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It's not random
ItachiSama said:
@Pirateghost I can't register on JIRA; is that normal?
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What's the error?
#stayparanoid
Pirateghost said:
What's the error?
#stayparanoid
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It stucks in an infinite loading; later I'll check if something change (I'm writing from the uni, as my computer is not working)
Re: Option to limit Quick Settings toggles
Whenever, I start my phone, all the toggles are there. The other best thing about this I had discovered is in order to remove them, one can simply turn off the toggles via notification switch or just via uninstalling the entire app.
juanasteves said:
Whenever, I start my phone, all the toggles are there. The other best thing about this I had discovered is in order to remove them, one can simply turn off the toggles via notification switch or just via uninstalling the entire app.
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I have no idea what this means. The QS tiles are not able to be uninstalled.
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Expanding Notifications on Lockscreen?

Is anyone able to expand the notifications on the lock screen and take actions like quick reply or delete an e-mail??
Since EMUI 8 a lot of users are unable to expand the notifications from the lockscreen which is really annoying.
I hope Huawei fixed that for the Mate 20 pro...
For me it's a crucial feature to have.
I just read that the AOD won't show 3rd party app notifications??? What's wrong with Huawei!
Expandable LS Notifications and AOD Notifications are must haves for every Android phone!!
EMUI destroys this beautiful smartphone
Maybe time to flood their twitter and fb with this, the more we push on it... They might listen
I don't understand why they are doing this?! It takes big advantages of lockscreen and aod.
The mate 20 pro is such a great phone and they ruin it with this software...
Guys,
100%. If you like the phone but something ig stopping you from purchasing, INFORM HUAEWEI. If sometihng is wrong or a key feature isn't working as expected, TELL HUAWEI...
You should absolutely inundate them with enquiries via Twitter, email, Facebook and their website about this sort of thing. Why? Because it will be worth it in the end. There's at least a CHANCE they'll make the change with a software update.
RoOSTA
stah17 said:
Is anyone able to expand the notifications on the lock screen and take actions like quick reply or delete an e-mail??
Since EMUI 8 a lot of users are unable to expand the notifications from the lockscreen which is really annoying.
I hope Huawei fixed that for the Mate 20 pro...
For me it's a crucial feature to have.
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Deleting an E-Mail works now (at least with Gmail on 122). I can push the little downwards arrow and the notification expands on the lock screen.
I find this incredibly annoying. What is the point of even having these notifications if you can't expand them to see what they are for!?
https://imgur.com/zV6apZP
stah17 said:
Is anyone able to expand the notifications on the lock screen and take actions like quick reply or delete an e-mail??
Since EMUI 8 a lot of users are unable to expand the notifications from the lockscreen which is really annoying.
I hope Huawei fixed that for the Mate 20 pro...
For me it's a crucial feature to have.
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You can interact with lockscreen notifications. If you click on the arrow in the notification itself, you’ll then see options to interact with the notification. It’s a rather simple implementation, but you have to first click the arrow to then expand it.
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GiancarloMorr24 said:
You can interact with lockscreen notifications. If you click on the arrow in the notification itself, you’ll then see options to interact with the notification. It’s a rather simple implementation, but you have to first click the arrow to then expand it.
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Doesn't work for me. Click the down arrow and it invites me to click it again, this brings up the face unlock screen rather than any further detail from the notification?
cgfw201 said:
Doesn't work for me. Click the down arrow and it invites me to click it again, this brings up the face unlock screen rather than any further detail from the notification?
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That’s odd. What firmware are you in. I’m on .122.
GiancarloMorr24 said:
That’s odd. What firmware are you in. I’m on .122.
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.108....downloading 122 now.
cgfw201 said:
.108....downloading 122 now.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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exactly the same on 122. Down arrow does nothing. Can't expand any notificiations, tried gmail, whatsapp, twitter. What a load of nonsense.
cgfw201 said:
exactly the same on 122. Down arrow does nothing. Can't expand any notificiations, tried gmail, whatsapp, twitter. What a load of nonsense.
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Go to Security ——> Face Recognition ——-> Smart Lock Screen Notifications. Make sure that’s clicked off. See if that helps.
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GiancarloMorr24 said:
Go to Security ——> Face Recognition ——-> Smart Lock Screen Notifications. Make sure that’s clicked off. See if that helps.
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ah that is better. can now see them, just can't reply to them or intereact with them which is an EMUI thing, right?
cgfw201 said:
ah that is better. can now see them, just can't reply to them or intereact with them which is an EMUI thing, right?
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Not sure why you’re experiencing this issue. I can interact with notifications with no issues. A simple double tap on the arrow and I can reply, delete, etc. No issues whatsoever.
Lock screen notifications are kept private until the phone recognizes your registered face... It's a privacy feature...
stah17 said:
Is anyone able to expand the notifications on the lock screen and take actions like quick reply or delete an e-mail??
Since EMUI 8 a lot of users are unable to expand the notifications from the lockscreen which is really annoying.
I hope Huawei fixed that for the Mate 20 pro...
For me it's a crucial feature to have.
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Check out from 5:05
https://youtu.be/g6NeRu0ZIms
GiancarloMorr24 said:
You can interact with lockscreen notifications. If you click on the arrow in the notification itself, you’ll then see options to interact with the notification. It’s a rather simple implementation, but you have to first click the arrow to then expand it.
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Something to add from myself, expanding works on 122 firmware. But, for Whatsapp and Messenger when you unlock the screen, expand the notification, the messege text disappears (like on screenshot). Anybody encountered such bug?
I'm having the same issue with the blank notifications (looks like the font is white but not sure)

Always On Edge - Edge Lighting App

So I thought I would start a thread since this seems to be the best app out there to replace our missing notifications LED. This seems to be the best solution at the moment but I'm having some issues.
1. I can't seem to get the colors to change on a per-app basis.
2. The edge lighting around the notch doesn't seem to work.
Has anyone else figured this out or have any other suggestions?
Here is a link to the app for those that haven't tried it yet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
In settings for the app, give it the required permissions, scroll down to the blue box that says "enable app and its color and time", select the app you want, check enable edge lighting, (I have only checked out One Color) then tap the colored box, and select the color you want, and press Choose.
Been playing with it today. Works well enough that I paid. One remaining concern, is effect on battery so we'll have to see how it behaves tomorrow.
For the ring around the camera, enable "notch support" under widget settings and make sure you have either "around all screen" or "around notch only" selected under lighting above.
To get per app notifications, use the "when a notification comes" option under how to start and it will open up a selection.
Another really cool feature is "display notification icons" that can be used together work edge lighting, or stand alone by itself to create an alternative to aod that stays on when there are notifications pending.
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Been playing with it today. Works well enough that I paid. One remaining concern, is effect on battery so we'll have to see how it behaves tomorrow.
For the ring around the camera, enable "notch support" under widget settings and make sure you have either "around all screen" or "around notch only" selected under lighting above.
To get per app notifications, use the "when a notification comes" option under how to start and it will open up a selection.
Another really cool feature is "display notification icons" that can be used together work edge lighting, or stand alone by itself to create an alternative to aod that stays on when there are notifications pending.
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For "when a notification comes", no option to choose for Whatsapp or Gmail?
micshang said:
For "when a notification comes", no option to choose for Whatsapp or Gmail?
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Try the system apps checkbox. The UI isn't the greatest and it took me a while to get mine sorted out, but seems to work really well one configured.
dew.man said:
Try the system apps checkbox. The UI isn't the greatest and it took me a while to get mine sorted out, but seems to work really well one configured.
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System apps checkbox in the AOE? Didn't see this option. If on the individual app, I've set all notifications to on
I've been playing with the notch ring only cause is what I am interested but it somehow disable Always Display and dont know how to get it back... I just want the led notch ring notifications
Is it me or does this app have an archaic setup process? It just looks so dated and hard to use.
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Try the system apps checkbox. The UI isn't the greatest and it took me a while to get mine sorted out, but seems to work really well one configured.
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Found that. Thank you.
Which option do you choose for the following;
*allow this app to run without restriction or
*allow the system to prevent this app from running sometimes
I am curious....it cannot be setup to work as the original led notifications, right? I mean, the light ring disappears after a few seconds...cannot be set to repeat after a certain period of time..?
Yeah, it has a reminder function. Thanks for clarifying to myself )
Curious about battery usage with this app. The features are cool but the setup is just a pain.
leoking3 said:
I am curious....it cannot be setup to work as the original led notifications, right? I mean, the light ring disappears after a few seconds...cannot be set to repeat after a certain period of time..?
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You can set the time that it shows up and also there is a repeat option as well.
Hi. Great app!! However... Even tho I've ticket to show the app's icon when a notification is received... I don't. Any ideas? Cheers
I can't get this to work at all on my s10. wanted to it flash different colours (with screen off) for variety of notifications (Skype, WA, Nine (email). Messenger). None work. can't get any light to come on at all....is there something I'm missing!?
Make sure that the built in edge lighting isn't turned on.
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Make sure that the built in edge lighting isn't turned on.
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Thanks - all good. Seemed that Nine was supported as Samsung email works fine as does Whats App. To me this is a 100% solution to the no LED light so happy days..
Yes I'm very happy with it so far. :good:
Im still tweaking with this - can't seem to figure out how to get rid of the AOD it puts on the phone. I just want the notification ring.
I cant seem to get this to work as well

Notification sorting miui 12

Installed Miui 12 eu rom, now notifications are sorted by time instead of priority...
I have many persistent notifications and I intentionally set priority to minimal / 'trivial' so they stay at the bottom
I now have to search the notifications in the list and it's annoying.
Anyway to get it to the way it was?
maxlieb said:
Installed Miui 12 eu rom, now notifications are sorted by time instead of priority...
I have many persistent notifications and I intentionally set priority to minimal / 'trivial' so they stay at the bottom
I now have to search the notifications in the list and it's annoying.
Anyway to get it to the way it was?
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Maybe try disabling this?
Not sure it made any difference.
Some of the apps did however stop "refreshing" their notifications and jumping to the top after a couple of times I opened them.
Some asked for permissions again...
There is just 1-2 apps that still do this.
ended up using Mi control center app
solves the notification sort problem + notifications aren't huge which I like and overall a very neat app.
maxlieb said:
ended up using Mi control center app
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nice app, but would be great if if worked correctly with custom quick settings tiles, like from Tasker, AutoNotification or Blokada.
maxlieb said:
ended up using Mi control center app
solves the notification sort problem + notifications aren't huge which I like and overall a very neat app.
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Thanks for sharing. I have my first MIUI phone (coming from stock Android) and notifications in MIUI were driving me nuts. This app seems to return the stock Android behavior, hopefully there are no issues with it.
I still wish MIUI would honor the notification priority, what sense does it make to have silent notifications otherwise..
I am sorry for asking if it sounds silly, but how do we adjust priorities of notifications from different apps? Like I want some apps like text messages and missed calls etc to show on top of others in the list.
One more question, in Oxygen OS there was a feature of silent notifications, they were separated from the rest of the notifications by a neat divider labeled other notifications, they were collapsed by default and did not make a sound or splash. Can this be achieved in MIUI 12?

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