The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.

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The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.

Google, the poor multi-billion dollar scrappy startup that maintains Android, made a payment app that has one notification setting, "Google Pay". So all the ads, promotions, everything.

3rd party apps like PhonePe & Paytm have a better system.

How do you manage to maintain this OS?

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Only to find out that it creates new channel each time the old one is unavailable.

Yes, Viber?! F it - I disabled calls channel so I don't receive scam calls in it - why would it recreate it?

Proof: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Lv5omRMhc9EBdv7YA

Fucking cancerous, I’d immediately delete an app that behaves that way. It’s malware.

I would too but gotta get these "good morning" and "celebrate the day of lightly salted cucumbers" pictures/post cards from my grandparents somehow haha

Some channels are dynamic, so theoretically it could be a calls channel for each different person calling.

That said I feel like I have seen an issue similar to yours for many different apps which use dynamic channels so I think this is due to poor coding and not malicious behaviour.

Good point about dynamic channels (even though it sounds bad if you consider the notification channel's purpose) but not true in that particular case: I've talked to a bunch of people using Viber and it still has only one active "call" channel

Probably bad coding - should create notification channel when there's no existing one atm somehow. Probably disabling notification channel also triggers recreation