Currently, notifications that tell me something happened and notifications that need my attention are in the same category.
I understand some people like to keep an eye on stuff that happens automatically. Or want to double check if payment amounts are correct.
Personally I would like to minimize my distractions and would like to disable any notifications that do not need my attention.
I don't need to see notifications on things I physically did this myself because I know they happened:
- card payments
- Apple Pay payments
I don't need to see notifications on automatic withdrawals because I made them automatic up to a certain limit to make sure I don't have to think about it:
- automatic debit requests (incasso)
- automatic credit card payments (subscriptions)
- recurring payments I set myself
However, I do like notifications that need my attention. Events that show up on the events tab:
- new debit request
- other Bunq payment request
- expiring request
This already works great, because they have a separate category called 'Requests'.
However, there are other situations that need my attention and are visible in the Events tab:
- iDEAL QR confirmation
- Creditcard 3DSecure confirmation
I'll call them 'Action' notifications by lack of a better word. These are helpful because they save me taps to open the Bunq App, open Events, tap the event.
Hoever, these events are in the 'Card Payments' category. Enabling this category means I am also overloaded with (I'll call them 'Info') notifications of all other card payments that happen:
- Physical card payments
- Automatic creditcard payments
- iDeal payments
I would like to keep those turned off, but since both 'Info' notifications and 'Action' notifications are combined in the same category it's either all or nothing.
Would it be possible to move these 'Action' categories to a new overarching notification category, like:
- 'Always show Events'
Or a separate category for:
- 'Payment confirmation events'
Or would there be an even better way to have the benefit of all Event 'Action' notifications and keeping 'Info' notifications on payments turned off at the same time?