• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What’s the purpose of keeping a history of seen notifications in a database? That shit should be being automatically purged if it needs to exist to show it, after its been dismissed.

    I wonder if this revelation will trigger a change in how it works, since apple has often tried to do things securely?

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      My android shows a history of notifications. Not sure what the retention period is. It does add conveniece by allowing me to check dismissed notifications. It allows some monitoring about the type, content, and frequency of notifications as well as control to block them.

      It certainly now appears the convenience isn’t worth the loss of privacy, though.

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      4 months ago

      If you accidentally dismiss a notification, you can go back in the history to see it. Or if you dismiss a message notification that you want to respond to later. Or if a notification keeps popping up and disappearing and you want to investigate.

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        4 months ago

        I just checked if there were any controls for this on Android. As far as I could tell, you can only toggle it on/off.

        Off clears the history, but I wish we could do more than all or nothing. I don’t need a history of more than a week at most.