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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by nottorp on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:19AM (#48305726)
iOS asks you if you want to allow notifications when each new app is started. You can just say no there and you're done.

It would be better if they were totally opt-in of course (1), but that's not bloody likely to happen.

(1) As in off by default with no questions.

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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by illiac786 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:47AM (#48305916)
I can see a certain category of people screaming that WhatsApp calls are broken if that were to pass… but I do agree that no one would scream louder than app makers wanting to retain their share of human brain attention.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by nottorp on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:14AM (#48306133)
As far as i know my Whatsapp is muted and the mute is muted again. But it still rings for voice calls.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by WorldMaker on Thursday May 28, 2026 @02:22PM (#48313242)
On iOS Scheduled Summaries are really great. That's become my personal default on my phone. Scheduled Summaries roughly every 4 hours during waking hours and the default choice every time the question pops up for a new app is "In Scheduled Summary". I could see with some modest UX improvements Scheduled Summaries becoming the default for more people.

Heavy use of Scheduled Summaries does also lead to me wondering why there isn't a "default notifications to Ask/On/Scheduled Summaries/Off" global setting, though I would want that choice between Scheduled and Off at least.

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