{"id":311413,"date":"2019-06-26T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=311413"},"modified":"2019-06-26T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:54:21","slug":"facebook-working-on-big-notification-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/311413-facebook-working-on-big-notification-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook working on big notification changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing a new feature which will allow users to turn off mobile notifications for certain events.<\/p>\n<p>A number of new Facebook notification features are currently being tested, and were noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattNavarra\/status\/1143440434959540224?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweet<\/strong><\/a> by social media consultant Matt Navarra.<\/p>\n<p>This new functionality lets Facebook mobile users to turn off notification dots for certain shortcuts in the Notification Settings menu of the app, allowing users to choose whether to be notified for Videos on Watch, Marketplace, Profile, or Group events.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook app now also allows users to mark all their notifications as read with the tap of a single button.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/25\/facebook-may-finally-let-you-turn-off-those-annoying-notification-dots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook confirmed that it was rolling out out the new features to a small number of Android and iOS users as part of a testing phase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Facebook is testing the ability to toggle Notification Dots of the specific tab in the app<\/p>\n<p>This should address the long annoyance of tabs showing notification dots that don&#39;t spark joy for the user <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vtBLkbjKtE\">pic.twitter.com\/vtBLkbjKtE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wongmjane\/status\/1134625700663648256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/311371-libra-offers-facebook-new-profit-stream-through-instant-messaging.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Libra offers Facebook new profit stream through instant messaging<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing a new feature which will allow users to turn off mobile notifications for certain events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":221971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,59701,58748],"class_list":["post-311413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-mark-as-read","tag-notifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}