# Behavior on incoming notifications
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663
**Category:** Feature request
**Created:** [June 12, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663 "2026-06-12T07:16:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@hho](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/hho)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/1 "2026-06-12T07:16:02Z")
Did the behavior on incoming notifications change in one of the latest beta versions? Now it interrupts (pauses) playback instead of just ducking the volume, which I think is way more jarring than before.
However, I’m quite confused because there’s people [demanding exactly this change](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/8333) (implying that it still is the other way?) and in that issue someone says there’s already a setting for this (which I can’t seem to find – though other Podcast apps have that).
(Pixel 7, Android 16, Version 3.12.0-beta3 installed from Google Play Store)
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### Author:  [@Listener](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Listener)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/2 "2026-06-12T13:14:38Z")
> [@hho](#):
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> someone says there’s already a setting for this (which I can’t seem to find – though other Podcast apps have that)
It sounds like you’re talking about the **Pause for Interruptions** setting under Settings / Playback
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### Author:  [@loucasal](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/loucasal)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2026, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/3 "2026-06-13T06:09:46Z")
This behaviour changed in 3.12 indeed, the rationale is explained in [Remove 'pause on focus loss' setting by ByteHamster · Pull Request #8433 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/pull/8433) and in the issue it closes. In short, it is a consequence of the playback service rewrite.
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### Author:  [@hho](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/hho)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/4 "2026-06-13T06:38:43Z")
Thank you very much for the explanation. At least I wasn’t imagining things.
It’s really sad that perfectly working features have to be destroyed all the time. 😞
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Waddington](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Andrew_Waddington)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2026, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/5 "2026-08-16T05:18:24Z")
Where has the setting to set play if other notifications gone?
This was the main reason I use this app that the podcast keeps playing while notifications happen. It stops sometimes and I just reset the setting but that setting seems to be missing.
It is probably just I cannot find it but if it’s gone and I can’t keep a podcast playing there is no point to this app anymore.
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### Author:  [@merlin](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/merlin)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/6 "2026-08-20T22:15:27Z")
Indeed, the playback now stops with any notification. I also can’t find the setting that used to be there to configure this… not sure what happened but it would be great to get it back so that we can configure it to continue playing even during the notification.
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### Author:  [@merlin](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/merlin)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/7 "2026-08-20T22:27:35Z")
I 100% agree. Can we PLEASE get this back? The pause during notification is extremely annoying. I fact, as much as I love AntennaPod and I invested hundreds of hours to do translations, this one thing makes me think about moving away from the app. To me this is absolutely basic and necessary feature…
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### Author:  [@G\_M](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/G_M)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2026, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/8 "2026-09-01T07:30:20Z")
They should have rewritten it correctly then. This is the most annoying thing ever.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Waddington](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Andrew_Waddington)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/9 "2026-09-09T01:47:41Z")
I guess no official word as to why this changed then, or I’m missing a post or a moved or changed setting somewhere in app
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### Author:  [@Yoni\_GASI](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Yoni_GASI)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/10 "2026-09-09T03:57:23Z")
Unfortunately this happens on my device too.
I’m on the latest beta version, Android s24+
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### Author:  [@damrtom](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/damrtom)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/11 "2026-09-10T13:10:41Z")
I can’t wait for this feature to be added back!
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### Author:  [@damrtom](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/damrtom)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/12 "2026-09-10T13:10:45Z")
I can’t wait for this feature to be added back!
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/13 "2026-09-10T21:17:43Z")
Given that this would have to be re-implemented, I’ve converted this thread into a feature request. If so desired, please feel free to vote on this topic.
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### Author:  [@hho](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/hho)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/behavior-on-incoming-notifications/8663/14 "2026-09-11T07:22:23Z")
There’s also a [feature request on GitHub](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/8665), which also already has multiple upvotes.