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Turn off Tasker's custom Mode when all Device Effects are disabled

Tasker uses a custom Android Mode to implement Device Effects such as grayscale, dimming the background, etc.  This works great!

However, when running the Device Effects action to turn off all effects (unchecking every box), the Tasker custom mode stays enabled, leaving the status bar icon active which hides whatever other custom modes are active (e.g. focus hours at work).  I have to manually toggle off Tasker's custom mode.

Compare this to the updated Digital Wellbeing app where turning on Bedtime Mode activates the app's custom mode, and turning off Bedtime Mode then deactivates the mode.

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Hi there, thanks for the report! Can you please try this version? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCseXuUy0gi4hryzwNbxFNdxqzBEfKAt/view?usp=sharing

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This works great, thank you!

However, Device Effects hides notifications whenever turning on the custom Mode from Tasker because "Allow all notifications" isn't enabled when it's created, and I can't override this anymore since the Mode is deleted and reset when turned off.

Should I file a new feature request/bug report for this?

I just saw the other post. That means that there's no issue, right? :)

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Correct, no issue.  I just had to reboot my phone once while the Tasker custom Mode was deleted (I.e. Device Effects not active).  Thank you for following up!

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After further experimentation, it seems like Tasker can't make any changes to the Tasker custom Mode after I change unrelated aspects of it in Settings (by default, it hides new notifications, which I don't want).

The real answer here might be giving Tasker tasks control over whether the Tasker custom Mode is turned on or off.

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