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Manufacturers, please keep interfering with notifications. Better yet, let's get google in on the business and do it by default in a standardized fashion on ev

Manufacturers, please keep interfering with notifications. Better yet, let's get google in on the business and do it by default in a standardized fashion on every android device. Spam is bad enough sitting idly in my message center. I don't want my phone to fill up with battery-guzzling nagware unless I very explicitly enable it. An acceptable compromise would be to enable notifications by default but put a permanent disable option on each and every message so that users could punish apps on the first abuse.

BEEdwards 9y ago
Spam is a concern yes, but not telling the user why the new whatever widget they just installed doesn't notify them when the thing is ready is a pretty bad design over site. It should just be a front facing user option. They shouldn't be hiding QOL settings.
npunt 9y ago
Android O redesigned the way notifications are presented to users and should do a good job addressing notification overload. The interface prioritizes ongoing notifications (like driving directions) and user-user messages, and throws a lot of the low quality ones in an 'FYI' section that's almost hidden. There's a lot more configurability as well, so you can turn off certain types of messages from apps, but get other more important ones.
ekimekim 9y ago
> An acceptable compromise would be to enable notifications by default but put a permanent disable option on each and every message so that users could punish apps on the first abuse. This is exactly how recent android works (at least, it does on my Nexus 5X). On any notification, you can slide it sideways to access a settings menu where you can immediately block all notifications from that app forever.
- veeti 9y ago
  In fact, this has been a thing since Android 4.1, released in 2012. Newer versions have more granular controls than just all or nothing.
PhasmaFelis 9y ago
> I don't want my phone to fill up with battery-guzzling nagware ...Then don't? You control what you install.
- ISL 9y ago
  Unless it is manufacturer-installed.
- amluto 9y ago
  You should be able to install an app at without allowing it to do anything in the background whatsoever.
colanderman 9y ago
Even better would be if Android were to stop popping up its own stupid notifications. Since getting a new Android 6 phone (stock Moto G4 Play), I've seen: • regular pop-ups explaining how to do basic things with my phone like swipe (thanks Google, I already know all of this, please get out of my way, I am busy); • pop-ups in Google Maps trying to tell me where to eat (no Google, I do not want your paid recommendations that cover half the screen); and • audio pop-ups (!) telling me how to do hands-free chat while I'm playing music through a loudspeaker (seriously… WTF??) None of which I have been able to figure out how to disable. These notifications make the interface seem unreliable, childish, and unrefined. Is there not someone at Google – like Jobs – who has the authority and charge to identify and stamp out these user-hostile behaviors, and the flawed internal processes that reward managers/developers who implement them?
loa_in_ 9y ago
On stock Android 5 I can long-hold any notification which will display info about the app, then click info button and check disable notifications for this app. Isn't this default?

BEEdwards 9y ago

Spam is a concern yes, but not telling the user why the new whatever widget they just installed doesn't notify them when the thing is ready is a pretty bad design over site. It should just be a front facing user option. They shouldn't be hiding QOL settings.

npunt 9y ago

Android O redesigned the way notifications are presented to users and should do a good job addressing notification overload. The interface prioritizes ongoing notifications (like driving directions) and user-user messages, and throws a lot of the low quality ones in an 'FYI' section that's almost hidden. There's a lot more configurability as well, so you can turn off certain types of messages from apps, but get other more important ones.

ekimekim 9y ago

> An acceptable compromise would be to enable notifications by default but put a permanent disable option on each and every message so that users could punish apps on the first abuse. This is exactly how recent android works (at least, it does on my Nexus 5X). On any notification, you can slide it sideways to access a settings menu where you can immediately block all notifications from that app forever.

veeti 9y ago
In fact, this has been a thing since Android 4.1, released in 2012. Newer versions have more granular controls than just all or nothing.

PhasmaFelis 9y ago

> I don't want my phone to fill up with battery-guzzling nagware ...Then don't? You control what you install.

ISL 9y ago
Unless it is manufacturer-installed.
amluto 9y ago
You should be able to install an app at without allowing it to do anything in the background whatsoever.

colanderman 9y ago

Even better would be if Android were to stop popping up its own stupid notifications. Since getting a new Android 6 phone (stock Moto G4 Play), I've seen: • regular pop-ups explaining how to do basic things with my phone like swipe (thanks Google, I already know all of this, please get out of my way, I am busy); • pop-ups in Google Maps trying to tell me where to eat (no Google, I do not want your paid recommendations that cover half the screen); and • audio pop-ups (!) telling me how to do hands-free chat while I'm playing music through a loudspeaker (seriously… WTF??) None of which I have been able to figure out how to disable. These notifications make the interface seem unreliable, childish, and unrefined. Is there not someone at Google – like Jobs – who has the authority and charge to identify and stamp out these user-hostile behaviors, and the flawed internal processes that reward managers/developers who implement them?

loa_in_ 9y ago

On stock Android 5 I can long-hold any notification which will display info about the app, then click info button and check disable notifications for this app. Isn't this default?