Notifications sync on multiple devices - General Questions and Answers

If you have multiple devices, you'll get the same notifications on all of them, if your setup is the same.
For example, if you receive an email, the notification will come through on all devices. Now if you act on the notification on one device, such as opening the email or deleting it, the notification disappears on the other devices, if they are online at that time.
Here is the problem:
If your other device (s) is offline, you'll still receive these notifications the moment that device turns online, even though you may have already acted on that notification on another device earlier.
The notifications sync only on devices that are online at the time you act on them. But if any device is offline, it will recieve these notifications later when it turns online. This becomes a headache if you connect a device (you don't use often) online after a few days. Because a very large number of old notifications (that have already been acted on) begin to bombard you each time.
Is there a way to force the notification sync in a way that a notification that has already been acted on in one device, stops showing up on other devices that come online later?

Look for an app that runs in the cloud. I believe that in that case, the notification will appear only once, because opening the interface to the application from the cloud does not launch another instance of the program.

ze7zez said:
Look for an app that runs in the cloud. I believe that in that case, the notification will appear only once, because opening the interface to the application from the cloud does not launch another instance of the program.
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I'm not sure if you understood the problem mentioned in the OP correctly.
What can I do for apps like Gmail, Outlook, Calendar, YouTube, News apps, etc.
For now, I have simply turned OFF notifications on my other devices for most apps so I don't get bombarded with old notifications in each device.
I'm not sure if this is something that Google Play Services can fix, because that is the common service running on all Android phones.

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Heya,
So I'm using Whatsapp Web and every time I get a message, it instantly lights up my phone screen. This happens also if the chat is active, meaning I don't get a notification (of course not) but the screen lights up anyway. The phone is too fast to notice the notification, while my old S8 used to ignore notifications if I was on Whatsapp Web.
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Heya,
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Any tricks to this? It uses a lot of battery for the screen to keep blinking on
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I would have to agree with the previous comment, Im not finding an issue with the app giving me notification have you tried to uninstall it, or just reset the cache/data on the device. The only thing i know that can make it play up in the way you're talking about is if you have sideloaded GMS?
my issue is very different, while I'm connected to whatsapp web (phone and pc on the same network), after a while whastsapp web shows "phone not connected to the internet" and notifications doesn't show on the phone. After I open whatsapp on the phone, I recieve all the messages that weren't arriving.
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