rOzeclawz Follow 2d ago

what the fuck makes phone apps so cocky as to send me notifications telling me to use it. my grocery list app straight up went “you havent made a list in a while!” are you out of your fucking mind. you are a program. why are you speaking to me like youre my equal. i could replace you with a pen and the back of a receipt. idiot. i kill you now

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    This is why on newer Android versions you can just flat out reject being allowed to send notifications.

    I will talk to you when I need it, not the other way around.

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      I had no idea people didn’t do this! First notification I get from an app that isn’t some form of messaging, straight to settings and turn off notifications.

      People are getting notifications from news apps. Apart from actual World War Fuckin Three, what possible news story could be worth being disturbed by your phone for?!?

      • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        Well before the current Android version, you had to manually go into the settings of the app or your phone to disable them. Now you get this on first boot of the app:

        This makes it a lot easier to reject them immediately

      • DrDystopiaEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        WW3 have that unblockable Presidential Alert emergency notification. There’s no escape. 😔

        Unless one disabled the correct system APK through ADB of course.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        My phone hasn’t made a sound in years. It’s hard on silent and all notifications* go to my watch so it can tap my wrist quietly and politely. _ *I say “all”, but it’s calls, messages, and reminders. General purpose apps aren’t allowed to talk to me.

    • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      This. I shut off all notifications from nearly all of my apps. Primary text app, phone app, and just a couple of others. I may temporarily allow them for a special purpose, but once that’s over they all get silenced and I get to them when I get to them. I hate badge notifications, too. So, those are off for EVERYTHING. Grad school cemented that aversion.

    • DrDystopiaEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      At that point why not just disallow it from running in the background?

      • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Some apps still need to be able to do that to perform their function, but generally speaking yeah, you could

        • DrDystopiaEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          What sort of apps would need real-time running if not to send notifications? Like logging software?

          • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            Playing music, viewing weather forecast at a glance, fitness tracking, that kind of stuff

            • DrDystopiaEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              But all of them are examples of apps needing to run in the background specifically to send notifications…

              What apps need to run in the background for other reasons than to send notifications?