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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 _puk »

asynchronous wrote: post #8
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…

Uber is terrible at it.

I use Uber irregularly (when I travel). Every one of those notifications has resulted in me uninstalling the app as it reminds me I still have it on my phone since the last time I travelled.

It may juice their stats, but I've definitely installed competitors apps when I need a taxi in a new place as opposed to just using the app I already have installed.

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

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Post by pgeorgi »

haolez wrote: post #26
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.

Give them 1* reviews for it, and encourage everybody you know to do likewise. It doesn't take that many of them to ruin somebody's day at the producer.

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

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Post by jbverschoor »

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.

There's no way to flag spam / marketing. Uber for example occasionally sends marketing. But you can't really disable notifications. Instead, they (large companies) should just pay x cent per notification to Apple (not the user, because that would be seen as credit, eliminating the purpose)

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

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Post by xcv123 »

Sarkie wrote: post #13
asynchronous wrote: post #8

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

There is an option somewhere in Uber Eats to disable marketing notifications. It's not easy to find.

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

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Post by tazjin »

I got a weird, semi-experimental Chinese phone at the moment (HiSense A9, the defining feature is that it has an e-ink screen). It comes without Google Play services, and with no ability to install them. It also doesn't have the Huawei alternative services or anything, just nothing.

A side-effect is that in 90% of apps notifications don't work, and it's really quite nice. The remaining ones that do work are apps where somebody put in the work to fall back to something else because they're actually important, like banking apps.

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

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Post by xwdv »

Sarkie wrote: post #13
asynchronous wrote: post #8

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

Postmates is an Uber Eats white label that basically pushes less of these notifications than Uber Eats proper.

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

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Post by mr_mitm »

wodenokoto wrote: post #40
LeoPanthera wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's been asking me about these and from what it tells me on my phone I don't understand what they are getting at. But more importantly, how does it differentiate between "Your delivery has arrived" and "this weekend, 10% off all deliveries paid with mastercard from chase banks"

On android, each app's notifications are categorized. For, say, Uber, I can enable the obvious useful notifications and can disable promotional notifications. Presumably Google penalizes ignoring or abusing this system.

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

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Post by tazjin »

wodenokoto wrote: post #40
LeoPanthera wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's been asking me about these and from what it tells me on my phone I don't understand what they are getting at. But more importantly, how does it differentiate between "Your delivery has arrived" and "this weekend, 10% off all deliveries paid with mastercard from chase banks"

> how does it differentiate

Probably through a pinky promise from the developers to call the right APIs.

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

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Post by selfmodruntime »

MichaelRo wrote: post #38

My kid (soon to be 11 years old) has this problem and is (almost) driving me nuts. There are three causes of this: 1) He's dumb. Will click and install on any crap he comes by. 2) He doesn't know to operate his phone. Every now and then I take his phone and turn off notifications for the apps I saw that popped them. #3: This one's mysterious to me as well. Somehow they (the notifications) get re-enabled back. I'm dis…

Number 3 isn't a mystery after all, if you consider that some apps will tie features to notifications or re-prompt

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

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Post by scottmcdot »

bengale wrote: post #14

Almost everything that wants to send me a notification get put into scheduled summary on my phone. It’s much easier to deal with them a few times a day rather than at random times.

How do you do that? I would love the ability to "batch" notifications from certain apps. Eg every second hour they notify, if any notification is pending.
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