{"id":15439,"date":"2019-06-25T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-may-finally-let-you-turn-off-those-annoying-notification-dots.html"},"modified":"2019-06-25T23:05:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T23:05:47","slug":"facebook-may-finally-let-you-turn-off-those-annoying-notification-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-may-finally-let-you-turn-off-those-annoying-notification-dots.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook may finally let you turn off those annoying notification dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sick of those anxiety-inducing red dots constantly appearing on the Groups, Watch, or other tabs in your Facebook <\/a> app? Well the social network may be easing up a little in its unending war for your attention. Facebook is now testing a toggle to turn off the red in-app notification dots on its homescreen. Until now you had to manually open each of Facebook\u2019s features to extinguishing the maddening flame of the notification badge. This could make Facebook feel more tranquil, and keep you focused on whatever you actually opened the app to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s related to the work we\u2019re doing with the well-being team. We\u2019re thinking about how people spend their time in the app and making sure that it\u2019s time well spent\u201d a Facebook spokesperson tells me. Many people can\u2019t feel settled if there are red dots begging to be tapped \u2014 a psychological quirk Facebook takes advantage of. The company seems to be realizing that its growth hacking can backfire if its pleas for engagement actually deter us from opening its app in the first place.\"Turn<\/p>\n

The Facebook Notification Dots setting was first spotted in its prototype form by reverse engineering specialist Jane Manchun Wong<\/a>, hidden in the Android app\u2019s code earlier this summer. Today, social media consultant Matt Navarra<\/a> noticed the feature being publicly tested. Facebook now confirms to TechCrunch that this is a new global test that started recently on iOS and Android for a subset of users. \u201cWe are testing new ways to give people more control over the notifications they receive in the Facebook app\u201d a spokesperson tells me.<\/p>\n

Facebook plans to continue offering additional ways to personalize notifications so you don\u2019t miss what\u2019s important but aren\u2019t drowned in noise. \u201cPeople don\u2019t necessarily want to see a notification on the badge [the in-app dots on tabs] if they\u2019re already getting notifications in the jewel [the red counter on the Facebook app icon on your phone\u2019s homescreen]\u201d the spokesperson tells me. It considered a snooze option but went with an on\/off switch that\u2019s the least confusion. The Notification dots feature is likely to roll out to everyone unless it suddenly proves to decimate Facebook usage.<\/p>\n

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How To Turn Off Facebook Notification Dots<\/h2>\n

If you have access to this feature test, you\u2019ll find the option in your Facebook app under the three-lined More\/Menu tab – Settings Privacy – Settings – Notifications – Notification Dots. There you can \u201cChoose which shortcuts will show you notifications dots\u201d with options for \u201cVideos On Watch\u201d, \u201cProfile\u201d, \u201cGroups\u201d, \u201cMenu\u201d.<\/p>\n

One tab\/shortcut where you can\u2019t disable the dots is Notifications, which actually makes sense since that\u2019s the main way the app alerts you to activity around your profile and content. But since you already get a heads-up about new Groups posts or when you\u2019re tagged in a photo there, the notification dots on the other tabs are just redundant and distracting.<\/p>\n

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If you want to control which activities trigger alerts in your Notifications tab, you can go to More\/Menu tab – Settings Privacy – Settings – Notifications – Notification Settings – Mobile. There you can see a list of your recent notifications and turn off ones like it in case you\u2019re sick of hearing about friends starting fundraisers, reminders about upcoming events, or comments after yours on a Group post. The Notification Settings page also lets you turn off sound for Facebook notifications, axe them from specific groups or other apps, turn down the frequency of On This Day alerts, and choose what notifications get bumped up to email or text message.<\/p>\n

Confusingly, there\u2019s also a totally separate menu that\u2019s accessible from the Notifications tab\u2019s settings gear icon. There you can temporarily or permanently mute push notifications and choose where you receive each type. Obviously there should be a link between these two different spaces. A great next step for Facebook would be allowing user to batch notifications, Instead of either being constantly pestered or totally in the dark, it could let users opt for an occasional digest of notifications, like once per day or when they get to 10 alerts.<\/p>\n

\"Facebook<\/p>\n

A year ago Facebook trumpeted how it launched a Time Well Spent dashboard<\/a> in its app and Instagram for showing how long per day you use the apps with an option to set a reminder to stop after enough minutes. But buried inside Menu – Settings Privacy – Your Time on Facebook, the toothless feature we\u2019d previously scooped<\/a> isn\u2019t doing much good. If Facebook wants to be a principled citizen of our devices, it shouldn\u2019t be so hard to say when we do or don\u2019t want to be nagged for attention.<\/p>\n

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