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by laglad 4593 days ago
Does anyone know how to remove the reminder to turn on notifications?

Details: - Using latest iOS

- All notifications are off in iPhone's settings

- Every time I switch to the app, a full page message reminds me to turn on notifications (even just swiping to Control Center reproduces the full page message. Aggressive!)

- In the Facebook messenger settings, there are only 2 options: to "Turn off until 8:00am" or "Turn off for 1h".

If this is intentional (or rather if it persists past today), Facebook just lost the last stronghold they had on me. I use them for nothing but messaging. And the one caveat I have for using them is that I only check in when the thought occurs to me not as I'm pinged.

If intentional (speculation coming), I bet they've run the engagement #s to show it makes sense. But this is a bad principle that is pretty restrictive for a company at their scale. They've pretty much increased the cost of cognitive cost of using their app.

The facebook messenger user in me is hoping this is a feature that times out after the first day of installs. Otherwise goodbye Zuck.