The low-down on activity update push notifications
By saadiqWith the introduction of sharing your activities with your friends in the latest app, we’ve also introduced a new iPhone push notification type. I’d wanted to write something up explaining it at as we rolled it out but I wasn’t able to pull it off. Here it is, better late than never and hopefully it will clear up some of your questions.
The basics
You can modify your global push notification settings on the iPhone app by going to the “Settings” tab and then pushing the “Push Notifications” button. The settings are as follows and you can toggle to enable and disable.
- Friend Activity Updates: This is the notification for when a friend tells Hot Potato what they’re doing. “Lincoln is playing with Hot Potato”
- Added to Activity: This is the notification for when your friend says what they are doing and that you are doing it with them. “Vanessa is watching tv and says you are too”
- Friend Requests: This is when a someone on Hot Potato requests to connect as a friend. “Jeremy added you as a friend”
- Responses to my Posts: This is when you write or comment on something in an activity stream and someone else subsequently comments on it. “Christina commented on your message”
Per user activity settings
You can also toggle on and off individual people’s activity update push notifications from the button in the top right of the iPhone user profile page. If the global “Friend Activity Updates” toggle is off, all of your friends will be off and their profile pages will give you the option of turning on alerts for that individual alone.
Quick Tips
Turning everyone off: Prefer to get your updates by launching the app when you please rather than push notifications? In the iPhone app, navigate to “Settings” -> “Push Notifications” and change “Friend Activity Updates” to off.
Enabling just a couple of your friends: First turn everyone off as indicated above. Now navigate to the user profile pages of just the friends you want on and tap the button in the top right that says “Turn Alerts On”.
Temporarily toggling activity updates: After you have turned everyone off with the global “Friend Activity Update” toggle, reenabling them will reenable all of the friends that were previously on. If everyone was on before, they will now all be on again. If you’d customized your list so only a couple of your friends were enabled, only those same friends will be reenabled when you reenable the global option.
So that’s the low-down on the added notifications. We hope you find them useful and please don’t hesitate to let us know how we can improve the experience further. Thanks!
