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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 typ

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 https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png

pwython 3y ago
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.
- sgt 3y ago
  I also do this. The granularity of notifications and the ease of use in iOS is outstanding.
haolez 3y ago
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.
- pgeorgi 3y ago
  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.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  It's not just some apps - it's all the major apps, including Google software.
- Freak_NL 3y ago
  I see the 'food delivery app' come up a few times in this thread. Do you really need an app to use such services in some countries? Whenever I want to order a meal for delivery I just go to the restaurant's website, or sometimes look at the list of available restaurants in Thuisbezorgd.nl (part of the company which owns Grubhub etc.) and then visit the restaurant website and order there. If there's something that needs addressing, the restaurant just calls me (which is almost never). I can't imagine installing a bunch of dedicated apps for services which just require my money and some basic interface.
  - Double_a_92 3y ago
    It's a courtesy for the delivery person, so they don't have to ring and wait for you to get to the door. Instead you get a notification when they are getting close to your house (via GPS tracking).
    - Symbiote 3y ago
      It's a discoutesy to the customer to spam them with notifications after the order is complete.
    - Freak_NL 3y ago
      Wow. That's… Totally not done here in the Netherlands. It's not really an issue either, because doors are typically within a few metres from the street, and people answer fairly promptly when food was ordered (because you are hungry and your food is there, which would seem obvious).
  - jabroni_salad 3y ago
    Where I live, the only restaurants that offer delivery are Chinese and Pizza, and this is pretty typical for most locales. What grubhub did was antagonistically create delivery services for literally every restaurant and collect those menus into their own app. If the restaurant doesn't cooperate they will just call the place and pretend to be a customer. They also buy ads so that when you search for <some restaurant delivery> you will get a dynamically generated grubhub page that 'looks official'.
- root_axis 3y ago
  For sure there are some apps that abuse the system but most are quite good with it. And I can say that e.g. Doordash and Uber Eats both give you granular control over notifications related to your delivery updates, Uber actually gives you about a dozen categories of alerts.
- rkagerer 3y ago
  And some apps (like Play Store) just have too many to wade through - pages and pages, with labels which in some cases aren't obvious as to what they do. The kitchen-sink overload is equally problematic.
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago
  I just watch the map. I forgot the app I use even has notifications since I turned them off long ago.
neogodless 3y ago
Well we can't expect teens to give up iPhones now can we? But yeah I like my OnePlus' physical "shut up!" switch!
rambambram 3y ago
Replace Android here with - let's say - a narcissistic person. The same sentence would still make sense. Something like "I love how my narcissistic partner requires an extremely granular control so I can adjust their level of disruption to me." I'm not making fun of you, it's just that your sentence made the similarities so painfully clear to me.
- root_axis 3y ago
  "Android" is not the source of the notifications, the source is a nebulous cloud of apps that I installed on my phone. In a more apt analogy you could imagine each app as a person, some are more chatty than others, some with more important things to say than others, Android acts as an automated secretary that filters and transmits messages with the appropriate sense of urgency based on my preferences.

pwython 3y ago

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.

sgt 3y ago
I also do this. The granularity of notifications and the ease of use in iOS is outstanding.

haolez 3y ago

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.

pgeorgi 3y ago
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.
TeMPOraL 3y ago
It's not just some apps - it's all the major apps, including Google software.
Freak_NL 3y ago
I see the 'food delivery app' come up a few times in this thread. Do you really need an app to use such services in some countries? Whenever I want to order a meal for delivery I just go to the restaurant's website, or sometimes look at the list of available restaurants in Thuisbezorgd.nl (part of the company which owns Grubhub etc.) and then visit the restaurant website and order there. If there's something that needs addressing, the restaurant just calls me (which is almost never). I can't imagine installing a bunch of dedicated apps for services which just require my money and some basic interface.
- Double_a_92 3y ago
  It's a courtesy for the delivery person, so they don't have to ring and wait for you to get to the door. Instead you get a notification when they are getting close to your house (via GPS tracking).
  - Symbiote 3y ago
    It's a discoutesy to the customer to spam them with notifications after the order is complete.
  - Freak_NL 3y ago
    Wow. That's… Totally not done here in the Netherlands. It's not really an issue either, because doors are typically within a few metres from the street, and people answer fairly promptly when food was ordered (because you are hungry and your food is there, which would seem obvious).
- jabroni_salad 3y ago
  Where I live, the only restaurants that offer delivery are Chinese and Pizza, and this is pretty typical for most locales. What grubhub did was antagonistically create delivery services for literally every restaurant and collect those menus into their own app. If the restaurant doesn't cooperate they will just call the place and pretend to be a customer. They also buy ads so that when you search for <some restaurant delivery> you will get a dynamically generated grubhub page that 'looks official'.
root_axis 3y ago
For sure there are some apps that abuse the system but most are quite good with it. And I can say that e.g. Doordash and Uber Eats both give you granular control over notifications related to your delivery updates, Uber actually gives you about a dozen categories of alerts.
rkagerer 3y ago
And some apps (like Play Store) just have too many to wade through - pages and pages, with labels which in some cases aren't obvious as to what they do. The kitchen-sink overload is equally problematic.
shrimp_emoji 3y ago
I just watch the map. I forgot the app I use even has notifications since I turned them off long ago.

neogodless 3y ago

Well we can't expect teens to give up iPhones now can we? But yeah I like my OnePlus' physical "shut up!" switch!

rambambram 3y ago

Replace Android here with - let's say - a narcissistic person. The same sentence would still make sense. Something like "I love how my narcissistic partner requires an extremely granular control so I can adjust their level of disruption to me." I'm not making fun of you, it's just that your sentence made the similarities so painfully clear to me.

root_axis 3y ago
"Android" is not the source of the notifications, the source is a nebulous cloud of apps that I installed on my phone. In a more apt analogy you could imagine each app as a person, some are more chatty than others, some with more important things to say than others, Android acts as an automated secretary that filters and transmits messages with the appropriate sense of urgency based on my preferences.