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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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Post by downWidOutaFite »

soultrees wrote: post #4

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…

Snapchat is like this, it's a communication app so you want the notifications on, but they flood it with marketing. And they refuse to use Android's notification "channels" to segment their notifications. Google should start enforcing that in their Play Store reviews.

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

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Post by jprete »

yieldcrv wrote: post #19
jt2190 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That’s the inverse, no?

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

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Post by jacobsimon »

soultrees wrote: post #4

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…

Maybe Apple should add a similar distinction between transactional and marketing notifications as we have with email.

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

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Post by pwython »

root_axis wrote: post #7

One of the things I love about Android is the extremely granular controls on app notifications, it allows me to fine tune the disruption level of particular types of alerts or messages from app to app so that I'm only alerted to stuff I care about. edit: https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png

As an iPhone user, I turn off notifications for mostly every app except for Reminders, Calendar, etc time-sensitive stuff. For specific third-party apps that may also require important push notifications (eg. Uber), I can just go into the app and turn off "marketing/promo" notifications or whatever.

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

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Post by jeffbee »

soultrees wrote: post #4

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…

The strongest solution to this is to use the web sites instead of the apps. I only have a few apps I really need: all the Google apps, Strava, Garmin Connect, micromobility apps for bike and scooter share, and that's it. Everything else is a website. And none of these apps are allowed to notify. The only notifications I ever get are Apple Pay and Messages. I don't even let the voicemail app (Google Fi) notify because what kind of jerk leaves a voicemail?

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

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Post by haolez »

root_axis wrote: post #7

One of the things I love about Android is the extremely granular controls on app notifications, it allows me to fine tune the disruption level of particular types of alerts or messages from app to app so that I'm only alerted to stuff I care about. edit: https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png

It's cool, but some apps (like food delivery apps) conflate all notifications into a single category, probably in an attemp to abuse the system.

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

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Post by neogodless »

root_axis wrote: post #7

One of the things I love about Android is the extremely granular controls on app notifications, it allows me to fine tune the disruption level of particular types of alerts or messages from app to app so that I'm only alerted to stuff I care about. edit: https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png

Well we can't expect teens to give up iPhones now can we?

But yeah I like my OnePlus' physical "shut up!" switch!

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

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Post by jeffbee »

downWidOutaFite wrote: post #21
soultrees wrote: post #4

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…

Snapchat is like this, it's a communication app so you want the notifications on, but they flood it with marketing. And they refuse to use Android's notification "channels" to segment their notifications. Google should start enforcing that in their Play Store reviews.

> it's a communication app so you want the notifications on

That doesn't follow, IMO. I have tons of communication platforms that aren't allowed to notify.

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

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Post by LeoPanthera »

jacobsimon wrote: post #23
soultrees wrote: post #4

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…

Maybe Apple should add a similar distinction between transactional and marketing notifications as we have with email.

They do. They call them "time sensitive" notifications. You can use the "Focus" feature to delay less important types of notifications into a big batch at a specified time.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212608

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

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Post by sitzkrieg »

soultrees wrote: post #4

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…

this is the only way to use any modern software. the worst part is each app feels it's appropriate to nag you to turn on notifications

best part is how all of these uis say "not now" or "maybe later" type of phrases cuz some overpaid PM thinks it will increase usage

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