Getting message alerts on both Mac and iPhone

So I use Messages on my Mac a lot, and I receive a lot of messages, thing is when I receive something and get a notification on my mac if i ignore it for more than a minute it sends a notification to my phone too. so I always have to click on the notifications on my mac just so it knows i've seen it and not to send the alert to my phone. I can't find a single setting to turn this off, so I'd be thankful if someone could help me with this

yep, but I think you get my question... Let's say I am in the Messages app on my mac, I get a message and the computer recognises that I've seen it and my phone stays quiet. but if i'm not in the messages app and having a conversation it gives me the notification on my phone first and when i ignore it for exactly 1 minute it sends the notification to my phone. That's what I want to disable! I can't go to the messages app every time i get a message!

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