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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?

@MishaalRahman @androidfaithful @android @android

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This is from India. I don't know about the rest of the world.

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@gamermanh

This kind of promotion. Sure, it's not a frequent issue, but you're telling me you (Google) maintain an OS where everyone else has to behave a certain way, except you? I call bullshit.

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@Justly0250 bro don't get me started on the Amazon app. I cannot handle that amount of rage.

The fact that they've made it infinitely more difficult to find the settings in-app is just infuriating.

Good luck finding anything in the in-app settings.

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@danielfgom true that.
Android's status bar is actually functional.

The reason why Dynamic Island is so exciting to people is that finally, something informative is happening in the status bar 😂.

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@snowadv because fuck you, that's why.

thisisartman OP ,
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@EddieTee77 😂

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@pico you can control whether or not persistent notifications remain.

thisisartman OP ,
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@soulfirethewolf I would actually love that.
The focus mode feature is the closest I've gotten to actually enjoying something similar. But it's barely anything.

thisisartman OP ,
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@hiramfromthechi I'm not entirely sure... I remembered seeing something like that in the Developer options menu, but there isn't anything there...

If you're on Android 12, you do get to add a Camera and Microphone Quick Setting (QS) tile in the notification shade. You were already able to control the Location and NFC sensors through here...

Edit the QS layout and look for the Camera and Mic tile. They let you turn off the Camera and Mic access for apps. Same for the Location and NFC tiles.

thisisartman , to android
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@MishaalRahman @9to5google @android
have they made Google assistant dumber and dumber on purpose?! I said snacks. It heard snakes?! Even Gboard understands. Hell, even YouTube understands what I'm asking for!
I even tried to retrain my voice. BUT NOOOO😭

I've recorded videos of this happening. Here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jbxXSZ6riv3LV3y8A

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