At least on iOS, I think calendar reminders (both native and gcal) are fundamentally broken. Their notifications easily get lost in a sea of other notifications and are easily missed.
Just say no to most of them
I’m sure this is intentional. But if apple could get the “ask app not to track” button off the ground surely they could make some headway in differentiating “your package has arrived” from “this just in! 15% off stupid bullshit” and being able to opt out from the latter?
God what a stupid future we’ve created. “Oh we have to make the critical notification feed functionally useless because of pressure from marketing partners”
For example Glovo delivery app has an "order updates" category, which I keep turned on, and I turn off the rest of them.
But does this apply for all apps on android or is it up to the dev? Can you make the Amazon shopping app just give notifications about package delivery and make it shut the fuck up about sales and suggested items? Or doordash, instacart, etc? If the dev can just ignore it then it’s kind of pointless and why I mean it should be part of the design guidelines
Maybe if the ftc would get off it’s ass and force the issue. The USA is legally required to have unsubscribe links in commercial emails, I don’t see how this is all that different
The whole problem with a sea of notifications is that it’s hard to identify what’s important and what’s not. Your suggested solution does nothing to solve that problem other than to relocate when the problem arises.
a) If there's far too many notifications, the bulk of them is not important. If only because you'd easily overlook them even if they were 'important'.
b) Is it difficult to decide between those few notifications that matter (like, those you act upon), and all the rest? (like, those you ignore).
For several years people were messaging me and I was completely oblivious.
Time-sensitive notifications (iOS 15+) fixed this for me. They’re always delivered immediately and stay on the Lock Screen for an hour.
I can’t recall if Apple retroactively changed the default for Calendar and Reminders, or whether that’s something I had to change.
It would also be nice if you could snooze them.
At this point if I really want to be alerted (leave now or you miss the train, etc) I set an alarm. But you can’t really do that any sooner than the day you want to be alerted because alarms don’t have dates (technically you can sort of do it with alarms on specific days of the week).