how are mobile notifications on the web going for iOS?
The whole ecosystem is there and very few are playing with it.
"Stop" - forever until I want you back
"Stop this week" - self-explanatory
"Not during work hours" - also ^
"Consolidate weekly" - get a digest
"I don't care" - make better suggestions
So many contextual pieces to make better notifications are right there... and though a toggle button appears to be 'easier' the cognitive dissonance is less the conversational environment of SMS.
I've never seen any SMS system that would correctly interpret and adjust to things like "not during work hours" or "consolidate weekly" responses.
I know!! I built a stupid simple bot for myself that just reminds me of things I want in SMS form... I text it things like 'For tomorrow - x, y, z' and then 9am the next day it messages with what's behind '-'...
There's a bit of configuration the first time you text the bot, for timezones and things like what does tomorrow afternoon mean to me? 2pm or 3pm? If multiple 'tomorrow afternoons come' do you want that as a digest or just individually, or w/e.
But for me, I love it because I forget things so quickly, so as I quickly as I can send a text, I can get reminded at an appropriate time. (and yes, I hate reminder apps.)
I'm still struggling how to keep it 'safe' - because Twilio keeps all the message data in plain text (more a byproduct of SMS) and holds a record of it, so while I can encrypt the db entries, I'm not sure how to make it 'secure' for other folks yet.
You need to buy from apple/google if you want battery efficiency, as you want to be included in the one persistent channel the OS manages.
Even without that your own servers cost money.
1. Swipe the notification halfway to reveal the buttons
2. Tap the options button
3. Flip the switch that shows up
1. Tap reply on the notification
2. Type STOP (4 taps or one swipe)
3. Hit send
For push notifications, I can set them to silent by application, they take me to the right place in the app when clicking them, very often they offer quick responses directly from the notification itself...
Finally, it's bad enough to require a phone number for 2FA (or worse, as the primary user identifier). Why should I have to give my phone number to a service?