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APPS ARE GREAT, but they do have a habit of overwhelming you with push notifications, which isn’t helpful if you’re waiting for a text or email and are interrupted by a notice to play Clash of Clans instead.
This is the case with games and other freemium apps that want you to open them daily (if not more). You can silence them completely or reduce the ways in which they can appear, depending on how much importance you place on them, and it’s simple to do.
When you install an app, notifications are automatically switched on but here’s how you can check which ones are on.
iPhone/iPad
How to access it: Settings > Notifications
iOS allows you a good range of customisation when it comes to alerts and is easier to filter through since active apps are placed at the top of the list.
As well as controlling the number of notifications you see, you can choose the alert style as well, giving important notifications (like reminders for example) an alert style when unlocked.
Android
How to access it: Settings > Sound & Notification > App Notifications
While there are fewer options available on Android compared to iOS, they’re a little bit smarter.
Limiting it to three main options: block (no notifications), priority (places them at the top of the list) and sensitive (hides private content), it’s easier to figure out which one is right for each app.
The only problem is that apps are displayed in alphabetical order so it’ll take a bit longer to filter through them properly.
Alternatively, you could use a third-party app like Smart Notifications to help streamline notifications.
Windows Phone
How to access it: Settings > Notifications & Actions
Finding a middle ground between iOS and Android, Windows Phone allows you to modify four things: whether it appears in the action centre, whether banner alerts appear, what sound it makes and whether it vibrates or not. Straightforward and to the point.
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After Erdogan’s recent rhetoric (night before) I wonder did he truly act alone ? ….
after trump’s recent rhetoric, i wonder did the nz truly act alone ? ….
after fraser anning’s recent rhetoric, i wonder did he truly act alone? …
see how ridiculous this sounds? hate knows no religion. only hate. we, collectively as a society, have to decide to stop pitting one side against the other if we truly want to tackle terrorism on both sides.
@Nigel Garvey: I couldn’t believe what he done. To show the video from inside the mosque on a large screen to an audience was reckless. To then say Aussies will go home in caskets like their grandads in WW1 is an incitement to violence. I’m surprised the international media didnt make more of it. Could you imagine of Trump had done that?
Any news on the tens of Christians butchered last week in Nigeria or dies New Zealand take priority?
And people wonder why islamofascism is on the raise ?2 attacks in 3 days .Nigeria also.
@ciaran111: I can’t wait until they get into the EU. I’d happily pay their doles so I can worry about my kids commuting into town every day…
Two billion backers
Why, the vast majority of media in the world is refusing to print either the names or pictures of these rotten ba@$##ds, does the Journal repeatedly do so??
Not sure this lad is playing from a full deck of cards. Just by the look of him.
Since 9/11 tens of thousands worldwide murdered, butchered, beheaded, stabbed, burned alive, raped, thrown of building, stoned, all in the name of Islam and one backlash in New Zealand is anyone surprised ? Just imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and Muslims had been targeted by right wing extremists for the past 20 years what would the likely outcome be ?
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