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by jgroszko 3094 days ago
If I can't turn off notifications then I just uninstall the app. I uninstalled Facebook and Messenger because of this. I had been using the Facebook mobile site just fine for years, but this fall decided to stop checking that too...
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There are quite a few notifications on my phone that are, provided by the OS, or whose app I can't identify, or the app cannot be disabled in any fashion.

Google's traffic notifications, for example. I literally don't care that the traffic is lighter than normal at 2 AM. I literally don't care about traffic at all. My life does not revolve around traffic. But can I disable these? Nope.

T-mobiles application updates. I don't care about T-mobiles application updates. I don't use T-mobile's application. I don't trust T-mobile's application. Can I disable that notification? Nope. It wastes precious every resource a mobile device has.

"Select Keyboard" notification when I have a keyboard open. Uhh... I selected the default keyboard. Is that not enough? Apparently not. I don't know how to get rid of the notification though.

I install OS updates pretty regularly. But there's a few updates that are pushed without consent because the "I agree" form has no way to opt out, not even for "no I don't want to reboot my phone right now, I have something more important to do" after a few days.

I believe the traffic notifications will go away if you turn off "Commute and time to leave" under "Your feed" in the Google app.