Especially if the call might be LONG DISTANCE!!!
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What galls me the most is that whenever iOS enables or disables DND it sends a notification! I asked that you not disturb me, why would I want you to disturb me to tell me you’re not going to disturb me?
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People had real hobbies, led interesting lives or otherwise tried to find ways to be less bored with themselves. Less drama overall.
The great thing is, each of us can choose to go back to leading our lives that way. Just this morning I read about a campus group of young people who voluntarily choose to meet leaving behind their cell phones. They’re rediscovering real interaction and human connection. I’m happy for them.
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Ha, ha, ha! Hadn’t thought of it that way!
It actually makes some sense though. There have been a number of times when I’ve discovered I missed a call and started fulminating about bad cell coverage only to discover that I’d inadvertently set DND. A notification would’ve been nice then.
Dave
The really annoying thing about this notifications fiasco is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to still receive crucial notifications from emergency authorities, such as bush fire warnings, if we take extreme measures such as leaving the phone in another room or turning it off.
In my case, I missed multiple meetings because I forgot to check my calendar. Electronic calendar with my old Pocket PC, eventually synced to an online calendar, was such a great thing for me, and I’ve loved it ever since.
If people don’t want notifications, don’t turn them on in the first place (as far as I recall, apps ask you when first run if you want or don’t want them), or spend a few minutes turning off what you don’t want. When one comes in from an app that you don’t want, on iOS slide to the left a little, tap options, tap turn off.
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In case anyone’s been keeping up with security news -There’s a hole in the notifications management that keeps messaged notification (in Signal for example) even from deleted apps, Apple seems to address these issues pretty quickly. Notifications/Text create anxiety for me (not exactly sure why but they do ) so I’ve trained my devices to limit some this. Your Phone Notifications Reveal More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Lock Them Down | WIRED
On this very site:
Notifications have been driving me more and more crazy lately too. I do want to be notified when a server is down. I don’t necessarily want to be notified every time a neighbor posts a photo of her dog on LINE.
Recently I turned off all Mac Mail notifications except for badges. I already get VIP notifications from Mail on my iPhone. While sitting here working I don’t need little popups all the time.
People who send real-time messages, like WhatsApp, Line, Messenger, etc. are less patient about waiting for responses than people who send email. But unless it’s urgent I prefer to answer them whenever I get around to it.
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Even for the few notifications I do want to receive, I detest that I although I can flick a banner out of sight, that just means it then clogs up Notification Center (which a couple OS versions ago was IMHO annoyingly castrated anyway, “Older Notifications”). I want a convenient option to not just tell a banner to go away, but to actually remove that notification entirely.
And this needs to be granular. Some notifications you just want out of sight for the moment, but they should remain in the log since you need to act on them later. Others, you just need to see them once and then never want to be bothered by them again.
I completely agree. I have a friend who is 84 and suffering some cognitive decline and the notifications on his phone are not only making him crazy, they’ve more than once led him to follow a spammy link that has compromised his bank account.
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I directly used this. I turned off Reminders and Tips, making them temporary.
Man my M1 MacBook Air is dog slow in typing. I have to wait until each word finishes before I type the next one. Argh.
Edit: within Discourse. Cn type normally in all other Mac apps.
Most recently my irritation with notifications is them popping up under my fingers on iPhone right as I’m tapping a control near the top of the screen. Then, instead of touching whatever button I was trying to push, I have tapped a notification that just came in, even before I could read it. And that opens whatever app sent it, taking me away from whatever I was doing.
I guess notifications have always worked that way, but in the early days I got only a few per day and didn’t notice it. Now it seems there are 20 per hour and I end up randomly touching them all the time. I’m turning more and more off and there are still too many!
(Another pet peeve: an app or service that sends you both an email and a push notification, usually at around the same time. The email flashes its own notification, so I essentially get two of them, and it feels like I’m being bombarded.)
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