Sick of YouTube Notifications? This New Feature Could Help
Summary
If youre sick of getting notifications for YouTube channels you haven’t watched in months, Google is testing a new feature that could help. Explaining the move, Google said it found YouTube users simply turn off all notifications from the YouTube app entirely when they “feel overwhelmed or are no longer interested in a specific channel," rather than simply changing their notification settings. “The goal of this experiment is to help us find ways to reduce this problem,” Google said in the official update. A Cornell University study found that participants who paused push notifications for just 24 hours felt less distracted and more productive compared to their baseline. Meanwhile, there have been other studies showing that healthcare professionals hit by constant notifications have a bigger chance of missing vitally important ones.