Notifications are a cognitohazard
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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I tur off notificatuons for over 90% of that shit. Direct messages I need and I need to know when my daily chess moves are (duh).
Nothing else compels me.
I turn that off
I rarely ever see these. What do people do for this to happen?
The only thing on my phone that's allowed to notify me are messaging apps, and even then, only for direct messages, not groups.
Social media, games, sites, and everything else can all fuck right off - you do not get to demand my attention unbidden, and if you misbehave you are going in the trash.
Doing the same. It’s way too common for people just to leave on everything and then they barely reply to messages because they didn’t see them and are stressed all the time.
this is how i live also, i mean the alternative would be how i see everyone with too many notifications; they eventually get to be too many and they just get lost in the sauce.
I just ignore them. At some point they lose any meaning whatsoever
That's nice for you, but the urgent feeling doesn't dissipate for some people.
Every old-ish person I know has thousands of YouTube and Gmail notifications
I think most launchers (on Android) allow to hide these "dots"
The notification settings on iOS let you disable that entire feature. No badges, no banners, no dings, what happens when I open the Mail app after a week? IT’S A SURPRISE!
Lack of fine settings :/
I like the ability to have notifications (with or without sound) but no badge (or the opposite if someone likes it the other way)
I was just being funny about it. Every type of notification has its own settings, and you can change those settings on an app by app basis.
No one in my life understands this. I haaaaate having these notifications. The worst ones are those that can't be cleared.
Some sites have started sending them to you before you've even done anything!
Never been to this site before? Don't worry, chat bubble in the upper corner already displaying a little red dot with a 5 in it. There's already an AI chatbot trying to offer help and discounts off on things and ... AUGH!
What's funny is those always make me immediately think the site is a scam of some sort even though they're everywhere. I get this feeling like I should leave the site as soon as I can
I've never seen that happen.
on android you can hide any of them, all from an app or just the category that annoys you. long press on the notification and tap the cog.
notifications that can't be cleared have their place too, formerly apps needed that to be able to keep running in the background. but that still works if you hide that specific notification.
but google shuffled that up in recent versions because people were complaining who didn't know notifications can be hidden permanently..
These went away on my MILs phone (I think after an update), so she was freaking out that she couldn't tell when someone had texted her. Other than the notification bar and chime when they were received, that is.
A friend of mine has more than 2000 unread mails, and he just left them there with that big fat number covering half of the icon. Like, bruh.
Rookie numbers. My ex boss had at least 10k at any time. I'd help him clear them out down to 8k and he'd be back up to 15k the following week.
yeah that's me, I don't care about inbox zero. I just read the subject line. If it is important i read the email if it's not i leave it. Not gonna waste time clearing my inbox. I look at my inbox like a couple of times a day, so the badge isn't that important for me. I could turn the badge off, but i just can't be bothered.
My dad’s iPhone. Oh no.
How would you read them ?
Select all, mark as read, archive. Read the last 100 or 200. If he did'nt have the necessity to read them until now, he could also delete them for good.
Not all of these are gonna be important and at this point most of them are expired anyway. Just read the last 200, archive the rest and do better from then on.
I also only allow notifications like this on select apps. Direct messaging, mostly. I let Bandcamp tell me about new albums and the library tell me about when my books are available/due, but that's about it.
Can't they be disabled? I haven't got an iphone, but these would piss me off a lot
Settings > Notifications > (App Name) > Uncheck “Badges”.
For whatever reason, you still can’t do it globally and must do it per-app.
On android all my life and never had red dots. I guess this is on iPhones?
Android has it. As does Windows, for taskbar icons anyways.