Hi, I got a /e/ preinstalled Fairphone 3 and use Telegram and Signal. Both have permission to run in the background (in Telegram, this permission is ticked in the app settings, and in Signal I think it’s like that by default, because I couldn’t find this option anywhere). The problem is that I have pinned notifications in the dropdown menu telling me that they are runing in the background (as seen in the picture). Of course, this information I don’t need to see it everytime a new message arrives and use this dropdown menu. It’s not a big deal, but it quite interferes when looking at legit notifications in this dropdown menu. Anyone experiencing this problem?
Long push on notification and select ‘minimize’ and viola … it’s gone
Thanks @harvey186 ! But if I minimize this notifications from Signal and Telegram, I will still receive notifications of incoming messages in this apps?
Yes, it’s only for the status notification
Great. Thank you very much!
it was me a pleasure
Ups, looks like they’re back again… I followed your instructions and minimized the notifications, and the message thrown was (this apps will minimize). But they’re still there. If I long press them again, the same message appears, but they continue there, and the only other option is to revert the action, which I dont want to do because I do want to minimize.
Edit: I pushed “manage notifications” button under this notifications, and that took me to the Settings,>Notifications menu. Then when tapping the apps, in Telegram I managed to untick the “background running” notifications, and in Signal I untick the “others” notification, and that did the trick.
Hello ! Under nougat it seems, “others” notifications doesn’t exist for signal.
Can you take a screenshot ?
Yeah, not available. It’s the same with the Delta.Chat notification.
Very helpful, thank you
For /e/-Android 7 / Nougat, this worked for me: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6561#issuecomment-362507308
i.e.: "Seems like you can get rid of the notification (at least for a while) with the following trick:
- Slide the notification to the right and open “more settings” (or long press it)
- Click on the “A”
- Put the slider to the top left (all Signal notifications are gone)
- Press on A again (now again other Signal notifications will come in as usual)
- Other notifications or even opening the app does not bring the persistant notification back.
- This will last until Signal app (for whatever reason) restarts."
Edit 2020-10-27 : Hmm, sorry, this is only a very temporary solution. After a few hours the notification is back.