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Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

Uber is terrible at it.

Uber Eats.

I need the notifications for a taxi not marketing for groceries during the week

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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AI bros, listen up Make an app that scans those notifications and takes an action automatically.

AFAIK, an app can’t influence notifications from other apps. At least on iOS. Less sure about Android. This is something that has to come from the OS level.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uber is terrible at it.

Uber Eats. I need the notifications for a taxi not marketing for groceries during the week

Push notifications are the next regulatory target after cookies.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Sometimes I will be having a conversation with someone and then their phone will buzz or make some sound and the person's attention will shift entirely to the phone. I don't think people realize the effect these gadgets have on their cognition.

I have a phone but it is always on silent. I've decided that it is not acceptable to remotely hijack my attention. No notification on my phone sent by some corporation is ever urgent and basically never requires my immediate attention.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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post #9

I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

I would like a “allow notifications for the next n hours/days” setting.

Pretty sure iOS could do that with focus mode and a schedule or an Automator shortcut

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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post #9

I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

I would like a “allow notifications for the next n hours/days” setting.

there is on iPhone, its a pause notifications for a specific app for x amount of time

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

I, too, have been running my phone on DND as of late and it’s been pretty great. My wife disagrees :). I’m pretty sure iOS focus modes would allow me to configure notifications from my wife to come through while silencing the others but I’ll wait til she tells me :).
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