Android Management API Disable Notifications for the Messages App

[wilkinson4]

Hello,

We have a custom mobile device management solution that we built to manage android tablets that get sent out to patients with our private application pre-installed. Currently we disable the notifications drawer so that they cannot access settings, and see all of the spam SMS notifications that the tablets get via the default messages application. Is there a way to alter the notifications settings for the default messages app so that it can't display notifications, or some way we can clear them out?

[jasonbayton · Accepted solution]

I haven't tested it with SMS explicitly, but you can deny notification permissions at runtime from android 13, which would keep them out of the notification area.

You could also disable SMS if it's unnecessary, for example if the SIM is for data and no one should be messaging with it