My cell phone has a habit of beeping, with no recent notification present either on the lock screen or on the screen you get when you swipe down from the top of a home screen. (Sorry, I don't know what that screen is called.)
Casual investigation showed no way to find out why it just beeped, and three different screens showing different (inconsistent) sets of recent notifications - one of them showing only what time each app had last produced a notification, with no content.
One of these three lists distinguished between silent and non-silent notifications.
I was unable to find any interface that controlled what kind of notifications a given app could generate. The best I could do was a binary control for whether they could generate notifications at all.
I don't want to be interrupted by beeps without any associated notification I know how to find. I'd prefer to be able to get notifications, with beeps, from a selected small set of apps (calendar, text messages). Ideally, I'd prefer to apply more detailed controls (my podcast player need not tell me about automatic downloads, but I'd like to know about download failures). But given the (ahem) user friendly design, I'll settle for shutting up the random beeps, even if it means I can't get audible notifications from other apps; I do however require an audible ring for phone calls, so permanent do-not-disturb-mode is not an option.
Note that I'd be overjoyed to RTFM. Pointers to documentation will be gratefully welcomed. But from experience, Android vendors routinely customize the UI, such that a manual for e.g. a Samsung might well require me to interact with UI elements not present on a pixel running the same Android version. Also, Android 12 "made Android fun again" (according to one reviewer) by making major unexplained UI changes, as well as breaking existing functionality. So I fear that a manual for an earlier Android release will just tease me with instructions to do things no longer possible.
