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You can also just say "No" when an app asks to send notifications. People don't seem to realise that you have complete control over when your phone dings for yo
by madeofpalk 2y ago
You can also just say "No" when an app asks to send notifications. People don't seem to realise that you have complete control over when your phone dings for your attention.
A dark pattern some apps used is they use their own notification prompt first, and then the system one. The system won't reprompt if you deny it, so I tell the app "Yes", to then say "No" to iOS. This mostly does a good job of stopping the nagging.
- homebrewer 2y agoThere are a lot of applications that use the same notification channel for important things (like credit card transactions) and meaningless spam (and changing banks is not always possible for reasons outside of our control). The channels were supposed to solve this problem, but Google is not enforcing the "purity" of their usage afaik.
- ghaff 2y agoAnd that’s some of the problem. I don’t consider a random credit card transaction that I may make multiple times a day terribly important unless it’s over $1K or whatever.
- madeofpalk 2y agoIn my experience, I've not found an app that sends a mix of both genuinely useful and spam notifications.