Unable to cancel "New voicemail" notification

[Alex]

Hi. I am having a hard time to cancel annoying "New voicemail" notification. Other notifications notifications get cancelled just fine but this one I can only remove if I manually swipe it. Also, the system setting to turn it off is disabled so it's not a generic notification. Any workaround I can use?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

That screenshot doesn't say much of how your flow is working. Cancelling a notification should be as simple as:

1. Flow beginning
2. Notification posted: Title=New voicemail, Notification id=id
3. Notification cancel:  Notification id=id
4. (connect #3 OK and #2 NO to #2 IN)

[Alex]

I know it should be simple and it is but it looks like I am looking for a workaround as this specific notification is not getting cancelled.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

The Proceed option should be set to When transition.

[Alex]

Tried that too and it didn't work.

[Alex]

Just to clarify - it didn't work with both existing and new notifications.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Enable the Ongoing event flag, if the flow doesn't respond to the notification then that notification is flagged as "ongoing", and such cannot be cancelled on Android 13 and lower.

[Alex]

Yeah, with Ongoing event flag enabled it's not attempting to cancel it so I guess it is flagged as such. If I disable the Ongoing event flag then the Notification Cancel block gets triggered but the notification still stays in the status bar 

[Alex]

But why would it be ongoing is beyond my understanding... It's just a voicemail notification...

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Indeed, an odd choice, ask developers of the app.

[Tim]

But I can physically swipe that notification... Is there a way to initiate "swipe" using Automate?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Odd, since that's what the Notification cancel block do.

[Tim]

So basically Automate cannot perform swipe action on notification if it's "flagged as ongoing" even though it's not actually ongoing as there is nothing going on when I randomly get those voicemail notifications and I can swipe them by my finger?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

No. It should not be possible to cancel/dismiss "ongoing" notifications on Android 13 and lower.

If it is still possible then it's probably some custom device manufacturer feature, which is not supported by the standard Android API accessed by Automate.

The block use the API to "cancel" the notification whether it's ongoing or not, but if it works/allows it is up to the system.