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"_But your recipients can just put their phone on silent_" - they can, but some people choose not to. In particular, I know that both my partner and my mother have my number set up to override silent settings - whenever I message them, no matter what, it will always play a notification. Like I said above - there might be an emergency, and in their evaluation it's preferable to be contactable in those situations even if it means disturbed sleep at other times when I forget and message them during (their) night-time.
There was a feature request for this in Signal [here](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1803), but sadly it was closed without action. I might re-open it (especially now that [Telegram has it](https://telegram.org/blog/silent-messages-slow-mode)[^telegram-does]) and see if their opinion has changed.
There was a feature request for this in Signal [here](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1803), but sadly it was closed without action. I might re-open it (especially now that [Telegram has it](https://telegram.org/blog/silent-messages-slow-mode)[^telegram-does]) and see if their opinion has changed.**EDIT:** they've moved feature requests to a different location, and it's [already open there](https://community.signalusers.org/t/silent-low-priority-messages-to-avoid-disturbing-the-receiver-silent-messages/2532/43).
## Most communication is less urgent than you think[^only-professional-comms]
