There are a lot of apps that have free reign to send me notifications until I get annoyed. I don't want them to tell me that the developer has updated their weird photo management app because I will never use it.
It's nice to play.
Notification categories are up to the developers. Developers do not have to be nice. Amazon refines the categories in the app itself but only uses three in the system. If you try to silence a push notification ad, you could accidentally turn it off. Amazon has made charity donations contingent on getting personalized ad notifications.
When developers play by the rules of the system, it's easy to create new notification categories to get around the ones a user has silenced. There are 30 different notification categories in the core app of the internet giant. It's good to figure out what they mean. They're constantly changing.
It's not possible to force apps to ask permission before sending notifications. People are likely to give Amazon permission to send notifications only to be stuck with ads because they still want delivery updates. It is better to cut off some of the junk before it arrives than it is to hunt it down after it arrives.
Even though this change is necessary, it will take a long time for it to have an effect. Most users have to wait a long time for an update. Only a small percentage of devices were newer than version 11. The first version of the operating system was released in 2020. It could be a long time before your phone supports this feature.
Developers won't be required to support it just yet if you own a phone that will support it soon. It is likely that apps will be required to ask permission before sending notifications before the end of the decade. Some apps may hold out as long as they can.
It's shocking that this is happening so late, given how much attention has been given to the notification system.
notifications were one of the things I was most excited about when I first purchased the T-Mobile G1 It was a handy little to-do list of all the things I needed to respond to sitting at the top of my phone and I was able to take care of some of those tasks without ever leaving the shade.
Notifications on the phone have become a problem. I had to uninstall apps I wouldn't use because it was too tiring to look for junk notifications. I don't trust my phone to buzz if it's important. I need to spend a lot of time making sure that apps behave the way they should. I'm happy that they're asking permission rather than forgiveness. It would have been better if it had done so much sooner.
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