Comment by Razengan
7 years ago
Throwing a "This app wants to send you notifications" dialog as soon as you launch an app for the first time, should be banned.
7 years ago
Throwing a "This app wants to send you notifications" dialog as soon as you launch an app for the first time, should be banned.
That would be pointless and regressive.
There are a lot of apps that are basically made of notifications. When I install Signal I want it to immediately ask me if sending notifications is ok so that I can say yes.
Conversely, I find it really useful to block any notification from the get go.
Notifications are blocked by default.
No. If they were blocked you could only unblock them in the settings app.
They're only blocked when you don't allow them.
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Then you have to ban iOS, because it's the system that throws that notification if you run an app that has notifications in its capabilities list.
That’s completely inaccurate, the dialog only shows once the app requests the permission.
The app checks for notifications authorization on every startup, and the system checks it against stored user settings. To establish the user settings initially, the system pops up the dialog the first time you run an app with notification capabilities.
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At the very least, there should be a system-wide option to decline all new notification prompts.
Interestingly, I run exactly this in one of my apps. A lot of users never actually figure out my app has notifications, but I sleep a lot better at night knowing that I'm not annoying people with prompts.
Why don’t you do it the first time they access a feature related to notifications?
That is indeed exactly when I present the alert: when they enable notifications from settings.