UWP toast without vibrate?

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I have an UWP app that does a background download and I have toast notifications on the progress, however I don't want it to annoy the user every time with sounds and vibration. I found the ToastAudio and set that with silent, now no sounds for progress updates which is great until I have a device with vibration. Now my phone was vibrating about every 2 seconds for the 3 minutes it took to download.

I've not been able to find a vibration option in the toast specs, is there one? For now I've limited my updates to every minute and when done to minimize the annoyance.

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It sounds like you are using toast notifications for something they weren't meant for. Toast notifications should inform users about actionable events, not continuous updates of a single operation. Besides, isn't that going to bombard the action center with new, transient entries? - IInspectable
The status uses a single group key so each replaces the previous, so never more than 1 entry is in there. Clicking it takes you to the pending downloads screen in my app, but it provides a notification about progress and completion because you may be waiting to leave a network until it finishes (downloads are from intranet sources). I see it much like email or text notifications where it shows you the message and you can tap or dismiss, and a tap takes you to a specific screen in the app where you can execute more actions. If I get lots of emails I get the same bombardment you describe. - Jon Helms

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Andrew from the Windows Notifications team here.

You should use a "ghost toast" for your scenario - the toast will silently go into Action Center without vibrating or alerting the user. To create a "ghost toast", set the ToastNotification.SuppressPopup property to true.

That way, the user can stay informed about your download by checking Action Center without the notification popping up, or making a sound, or vibrating. You don't even need to set your audio to silent - it will be muted if SuppressPopup is true.

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As far as I know, vibration on toast notifications is built-in behavior controlled by user. You can't override it, but you can offer user to change settings for your app thru the ms-settings:notifications protocol. Just in case - there are not options to open notification settings for specific app.