Notification fatigue

[Black_Mage]

I remember when notifications were awesome. Every notification was something I wanted to know. Recently, I turned off notifications for a lot of apps. Why? Because app notifications are being used more for advertising than for giving me any sort of status update I’m really interested in. It’s frustrating. Have any of you experienced this?

 

[DaveS86]

Nope, I just turn them off

 

[3Rock]

Yep. That’s what I did because of the amount of notifications I got. Both on my phone and my iPad/Apple Watch

 

[Mrbobb]

Third that, just say no.

I believe the only exception for me is my pharmacy and my doctors. If you fly a lot, give it to your airline also, u may want to know the last minute delays and gate changes.

 

[conmee]

Same. I only have notifications On for Authenticator, Banking, eTrade, Wallet, and Weather. And I turn on eBay notifications if I'm running/bidding on an item.

 

[Starfia]

If I'm at all in doubt about my notification setup, I'll consider just turning everything off, then just considering turning on whatever pops into mind as important. The distinction between "banner" and "Notification Center" is critical – at least with "Notification Center," I'm seeing notifications because I'm going to check for them; not so invasive but still more convenient than touring apps.

eBay is my current worst offender with notifications: they let you fine-tune what you receive, but I don't believe they've ever let you turn off "watched item reminders," which just fire at unpredictable times if you're "watching" anything. So it's always a dilemma whether to enable them to actually receive news on active auctions and stuff.

 

[conmee]

If I'm at all in doubt about my notification setup, I'll consider just turning everything off, then just considering turning on whatever pops into mind as important. The distinction between "banner" and "Notification Center" is critical – at least with "Notification Center," I'm seeing notifications because I'm going to check for them; not so invasive but still more convenient than touring apps.

eBay is my current worst offender with notifications: they let you fine-tune what you receive, but I don't believe they've ever let you turn off "watched item reminders," which just fire at unpredictable times if you're "watching" anything. So it's always a dilemma whether to enable them to actually receive news on active auctions and stuff.

Yeah I only turn on eBay if I'm running an auction or in the process of bidding on something. Otherwise I just keep them off. I don't follow anything so interesting or important that I need the "watching" updates.

 

[throAU]

I remember when notifications were awesome. Every notification was something I wanted to know. Recently, I turned off notifications for a lot of apps. Why? Because app notifications are being used more for advertising than for giving me any sort of status update I’m really interested in. It’s frustrating. Have any of you experienced this?

Yes i did and turned off notifications for everything except urgent stuff.