[makecheck]

I liked the Growl notification customizations on the Mac, where every possible notification type for an app was listed. That’s how it should be; then you know everything that the app can possibly send. You could make broad preferences where desired, and granular settings as needed.

I hate that installing new apps enables every stupid notification by default, seemingly only fixable by going 3 levels deep into every app’s settings and disabling things. Designers talk about the importance of having good defaults, and notifications have really, really stupid defaults coupled with bad UI for fixing them.

[tkazec]

Android took a big step in this direction in Oreo, with a built-in central manager of the permission and notification settings of every app on the system :)

[fermuch]

Android 7 has that too, under the "permissions" setting for apps. It's a "I don't want any notification" or "I want all of them". Are those settings in oreo better?

[habosa]

Yes in Oreo every notification belongs to a named "channel" and you can customize by channel. So for example saying yes to new messages and no to promotions.