u/Mikeynolan

▲ 6 r/tasker

Silence texts from non-contacts without having to special case all of my existing custom notifications / priority contacts inside Tasker

So it's political season, and I get texts asking for support many times a day. I'd like to mute (no sound or vibe) the notifications for these, but I also get actual important (but not time-critical) texts from non-contacts, so I don't want to delete them altogether. I don't mind reading the requests for money, but I don't want them interrupting me.

I also have a bunch of contacts that I've already added custom notifications for in the standard app, and I don't really want to have to recode all of those and find the audio files, and add DND overrides for priority contacts inside Tasker. There are enough that it would be hard to do inside Tasker without making mistakes. So my goal is "if it's not in my contacts, silence but keep the notification. If it is in my contacts, do whatever you would have done before"

And I don't want to touch phone calls, which I have handled pretty well already.

This seems like something that everybody would want, and I think IOS has it natively, but I haven't been able to get there.

Pixel 10 Android 17, in case that matters.

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u/Mikeynolan — 8 days ago