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The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.

Google, the poor multi-billion dollar scrappy startup that maintains Android, made a payment app that has one notification setting, "Google Pay". So all the ads, promotions, everything.

3rd party apps like PhonePe & Paytm have a better system.

How do you manage to maintain this OS?

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't the fact that it says "All Paytem Notifications" supercede the individual selections though? I figured that's how companies were getting around the individual toggles, you either take them all, or you reject them and they'll pester you to enable them literally every time you open the app.

[–] portside@monyet.cc 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think it does, it's just a quick toggle to disable everything at once. If a category is disabled it gets prioritised.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome! Thanks for that. Now maybe I can turn push notifications back on for Uber Eats and get a notice when they deliver the food, since only about 5% of the drivers will ring the bell. I turned the notifications off because I kept getting advertising pushed to my phone.

[–] zettajon@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just turn off offers and rewards:

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did that in the past and they reactivated it, or added a new category, or something, because I started getting spam again. I'm trying it out again now. So far, so good.

[–] bear 3 points 1 year ago

It's awesome how in the modern world we have to maintain an antagonistic relationship with the things we pay for because they constantly try to goad us into paying for more things.