{"id":18042,"date":"2020-04-10T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/facebooks-new-quiet-mode-option-lets-you-turn-off-the-apps-push-notifications.html"},"modified":"2020-04-10T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:29:00","slug":"facebooks-new-quiet-mode-option-lets-you-turn-off-the-apps-push-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebooks-new-quiet-mode-option-lets-you-turn-off-the-apps-push-notifications.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s new \u2018Quiet Mode\u2019 option lets you turn off the app\u2019s push notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook <\/a> today is launching a new feature called \u201cQuiet Mode\u201d that will allow you to minimize distractions by muting the app\u2019s push notifications for a time frame you specify. The company announced the change as an update on its COVID Newsroom post<\/a>, describing it as a way for users to set boundaries around how they spend their time on Facebook as they adjust to new routines and to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

According to Facebook, you can either turn on or off Quiet Mode as needed or you can schedule to it run automatically at designated times. For example, if you work from home from 9 AM to 5 PM, you could set Quiet Mode to automatically run during your workday to reduce your temptation to waste time in the app.<\/p>\n

If you try to launch Facebook during Quiet Mode, the app will remind you that you\u2019ve set this time aside with the goal of limiting your time in the app, the company explains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The controls for Quiet Mode will be found in a new section on Facebook where you can view other data about your time spent on Facebook\u2019s platform. Here, you\u2019ll be able to browse charts that show you the time you\u2019ve spent on Facebook on a daily basis, a comparison of your daytime versus nighttime use, and another chart that lets you see how many times you opened the Facebook app each day.<\/p>\n

Facebook introduced<\/a> its first \u201ctime spent\u201d charts back in 2018, but their appearance has changed to better match the style of this new \u201cYour Time on Facebook\u201d section, rolling out today. Facebook has also now added more analysis, including new week-over-week trends, the time of day charges, and the chart displaying the number of visits.<\/p>\n

In addition, this section will include an option to enable a weekly report that will let you know how you\u2019re managing your time. It will also link to the Activity Log of your own interactions across Facebook, including your reactions, comments and posts. And it will link out to other features that were previously buried in the Settings, including your News Feed Preferences and Notification Settings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The former is where you designate which people you see first on your News Feed, which to Snooze, which to Unfollow and so on. The Notification Settings section, meanwhile, lets you turn on or off the push notifications and emails for specific updates from Facebook, like new comments, friend requests, tags, birthdays and more.<\/p>\n

These aren\u2019t new features, but they\u2019ve been relocated here to make the new section more of a one-stop-shop for managing your time on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s changes are the latest in a series of efforts Facebook has made in recent years focused on users\u2019 \u201cdigital well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

The digital well-being movement pushes forward the idea that our smartphones and applications weren\u2019t built with the mental health needs of their users in mind, but were rather designed to maximize the time we spend staring at screens. Users, having become aware of the addictiveness of our mobile devices, began to feel more negatively about screen time and their time-wasting apps.<\/p>\n

Fearing backlash, tech companies \u2014 including Facebook<\/a>, as well as the OS makers, Google<\/a> and Apple<\/a> \u2014 introduced more digital well-being features into their platforms. This includes the now built-in screen time controls that allow users to track and limit their time spent on phones and even the time spent in individual apps, like Facebook.<\/p>\n

One iOS feature, in particular, may have posed a particular threat to Facebook: a new option introduced in iOS 12<\/a> that allowed users to more easily turn off app notifications right from the push notification itself. Apple even demoed how this could be used to silence Facebook\u2019s notifications easily \u2014 an effort to redirect this growing negative user sentiment to specific apps on its iOS platform, rather than toward the platform that allowed apps to spam users with alerts in the first place.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s response to this iOS feature, belatedly, is today\u2019s launch of Quiet Mode. Instead of having its app notifications turned off entirely from the home screen of an iPhone, the option gives Facebook users more nuanced control. But it also means that Facebook retains permission to push its notifications during the hours Quiet Mode doesn\u2019t run.<\/p>\n

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Facebook is testing a new \u201cYour Time on Facebook\u201d<\/p>\n

adding:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Quiet Mode for a specific amount of time
\u2013 Scheduled Quiet Mode<\/p>\n

Facebook told me (via @alexvoica<\/a>) that they\u2019ve been testing it for a few months and will continue to test and iterate pic.twitter.com\/7sPDuP4mrL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Facebook confirms Quiet Mode was in testing with a small percentage of Facebook users prior to today\u2019s launch. It\u2019s the same feature that reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong had spotted<\/a> in March, in fact.<\/p>\n

The feature is now rolling out to more people globally on iOS and will continue to do so over the next month or so, Facebook says. The rollout on Android will begin with testing in May and a broader release in June.<\/p>\n

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