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Re:iOS 16 by astrange on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @03:35AM (#31650977)
> There is essentially never a time when I want anything like a full do not disturb. So... I'd have to be interrupted every 4 seconds by crappy apps that spam notifications to avoid being unreachable?

Your solution is focus modes, which they spent rather a long time talking about in the keynote.

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Re:iOS 16 by eternityforest on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:12AM (#31651679)
Now that I read about them, focus modes do seem like they're usable, but I'm not 100% sure, without spending a half hour looking into it.

Some say you can whitelist the messages app and let all contacts message you, some say that doesn't work? There's a lot more discussion and confusion than I'd hope to see about it.

It just seems a little less smooth than I'd expected, like as if "No affect on any other notifications, just make this Aliexpress app stop spamming" isn't really a core use case.

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Re:iOS 16 by astrange on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:49PM (#31660965)
Why do you even have its notifications on if you don’t like them?

nb there’s also time sensitive vs not time sensitive notifications that can be filtered on, but it’s up to the app to say which are which.

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