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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by cptskippy on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:39PM (#37730471)
> There isn’t one unified settings area for all notifications, which makes this extra tricky.

Perhaps not in the App but in the OS there is. On Android you can pull a notification to the side to reveal a settings icon. Open it and click the settings icon in the top right to reveal granular app notification settings and the option to completely disable notifications.

Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by gnicholas on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:52PM (#37730636)
Yeah I think iOS has some level of granularity, like "time-sensitive" versus other notifications, but you can't disable marketing versus ride-related notifications in one predictable place (you have to hunt through the app's privacy settings, IIRC, to find at least some of them). I wish Apple would provide a per-app setting that controlled necessary versus unnecessary notifications.
Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by FridgeSeal on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:32PM (#37731618)
The issue is that Uber marks all their stupid notifications as “time sensitive”, so it’s all-or-nothing with them.
Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by squeaky-clean on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:45PM (#37732640)
Another abuse of the rules that would get any small developer banned from the app store with no ability to do a human appeal, while the giants are allowed to break as many rules as they want. (Except trying to dodge Apple's percentage take on in app purchases).