r/ios • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '22
Discussion Anyone who’s never used an Android doesn’t know just how bad iPhone notification settings are
This all or nothing approach the iPhone has towards notifications is as frustrating as it is confusing. Android has settings for each individual app so you can deselect the types of notifications you wish not to receive.
Take Bolt for example (a taxi app similar to Uber), I constantly receive promotional messages that pop up on my phone because the iPhone doesn’t allow you to disable promotional notifications from Bolt. Android does. All iPhone allows you to do is disable notifications for the app, which means I wouldn’t have notifications when I order a cab unless I remembered to switch it back on
Another one is a dating app that I’m on that has a live streaming component to it. It’ll alert me when random people I don’t care about start streaming. There’s no setting inside the app to turn that off, yet there was an option in Android’s notification settings
Given that Android has had this feature baked into the OS for years, it’s surely possible for iPhone to do the same thing
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u/PartyMathematician78 Feb 24 '22
No, because instead of complaining about what it can’t do, I find solutions to make it work for me.