Is it possible to disable notification vibration from all apps except calls and messages?

[Oneechan69]

I was taking a nap yesterday and had my Galaxy S22 right next to me. Right before I fell asleep, it vibrated. Which app as it? It was weather! Weather for ****s sake! I disabled vibration on it but would like to do for all other apps except for calls and messages.

 

[Hadron]

Maybe turn off vibration as part of your default notification and then see whether you can enable it for those 2 apps.

(Of course if that works you may need to check any app that has custom notifications).

 

[Oneechan69]

What I did was Go to Settings > Sounds &* Vibrations > Notification Sound and change the notification sound. While calls still vibrate, messages don't.

 

[Hadron]

So can you enable vibration in your message app? If not, does using a message app that has that feature solve the problem?

 

[Oneechan69]

Well the thing is, If I set an app to vibrate with notifications in the settings app, changing the system sound setting from vibrate to silent overrides that. Looking at the settings for the Google Messages app, it doesn't have its own vibration setting, the notification setting redirects to the settings app.

 

[Hadron]

I was thinking of changing the default notification to not vibrate rather than the system sound setting (which I would expect to override). That does work for some apps, e.g. on my phone Textra notifications use their own vibration pattern, so setting the system vibration pattern to "silent" (which does not vibrate) doesn't stop Textra vibrating. But for many apps if you set the default notification to not vibrate that stops their notifications vibrating as well. So it probably only works if the app can specify its own vibration pattern (Textra's vibration pattern does not change if you change the system default).

I'm not surprised that it doesn't work with Google's Messages though: Google apps tend to be very weak when it comes to customisation, which is one reason I don't use that app (since I don't use RCS "Chat" features I don't see any advantage of that app over any other).

 

[Oneechan69]

Setting the vibration sound to silent just silents all the apps.

 

[Hadron]

I wonder if we are still talking crossed-purposes. Setting the default vibration pattern (not sound) to the one called "silent" in my s21's system notification settings did not silence notifications. I did think that calling it "silent" was a bit stupid ("none" or "no vibration" would have been clearer), but it was top of the list and produced no vibration when set, unlike all of the others, so it seemed to be the one for turning the default vibration off. It would be very strange for setting the vibration pattern to affect the sound, but given the naming I was watching for that in my testing which is why I can say for sure that it did not silence my phone.

 

[Oneechan69]

So do u know what I could do?

 

[Oneechan69]

I got a solution from this Reddit comment. I created this rule with the BuzzKill app. I tested it using a notification tester, making notifications when the rule was on and off. I also checked if calls and messages would vibrate with do no disturb off, and silence with DND off (which I want it to), and it does.