What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by amelius on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:37AM (#48308807)

> Apps allowed to receive push notifications

> Phone, Messages, Whatsapp, Apple Health, [brand] bank.

Anyone else annoyed by the fact that you can set up do-no-disturb, with exceptions for certain phone numbers, but it doesn't work for apps like WhatsApp?

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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by scope2093 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:20AM (#48309329)

I remember a while back I also had this issue on iOS (maybe around 2022 or so), though lately seems to be solved and works as one can hope so. When you're making the exceptions, do you explicitly input phone numbers or some other method? I selected contacts from my contacts list and it does the job. This is for iOS in my case. I'm not familiar with Android, so cannot give any input there..

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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by amelius on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:22AM (#48309349)

On Android I can "star" certain contacts.

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