Notifications during calls

[mkevins]

• I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
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• This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

I found a few duplicates of this issue, with #4318 being the latest (I think), which was closed during the great autoclose purge of 2018 (#7598). I'm unsure whether this issue was resolved elsewhere, but I have not found a solution. My current workaround is to manually turn on "do not disturb" mode every time I'm in a Signal call. If I forget, I am usually abruptly reminded by an unpleasant vibration in my ear. 😵

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Bug description

A notification will cause the phone to vibrate during a call.

Steps to reproduce

• Be in a call (with the phone against your face)
• Receive an sms message (or other notification)
• Become startled by the violent vibration occurring on your face and in your ear

Actual result: Phone vibrates on your face
Expected result: Phone does not vibrate on your face (maybe uses another mechanism to notify if necessary, such as a soft tone instead?)

Device info

Device: Motorola Nexus 6
Android version: 8.1.0
Signal version: 4.31.6

[error401de]

I had this now multiple times, it is incredibly annoying.

[smopucilowski]

This is a very intrusive issue; confirming.

[error401de]

@alan-signal @greyson-signal Any chance you could have a look at this? The issue is > 2 years old, very intrusive and (to me) almost daily occurring...
Thanks!

[greyson-signal]

I don't think it's possible to handle all notifications this way. If you get a notification in some other app and your phone decides to vibrate, that's just going to happen. I imagine the best thing we could do is disable vibration for our own notifications.

[error401de]

Thanks for the reply @greyson-signal !
True. I just tested it with another app and it shows the same behaviour. Just never recognised it as I don't use any other app so frequently like I use signal...

This topic is connected and it would help a lot: #10831
Most intrusive are the notifications from groups.

Thanks for considering!

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

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