One UI 8 ABSOLUTE LUNACY

[BlackConvoy]

Okay, sooo...the Android 16+One UI 8 update on my S22 Ultra is pretty cool, but there's an extremely glaring and massively irritating quirk: whenever a notification pops up, if you're currently doing anything else involving the screen (ex.: typing) - *LITERALLY ANYTHING AT ALL* - it somehow immediately forces the drop-down menu to show up, meaning you could very well accidentally hit a notification. And as you can guess, that can very easily screw up whatever you're doing!! This is especially grating when it happens as you're trying to comment on a YouTube video or a Facebook Reel or anything of the sort, and it ALMOST happened a moment ago as I was trying to type for this post!! 

So I have three questions here:

1. Has this happened to anyone else on One UI 8 (especially S22/S22+/S22 Ultra users)?

2. Why does this even happen in the first place?

3. Is there any way to put a stop to this foolishness??

[nullandvoid]

It sounds as if you have the floating notifications set as smart pop-up view (the update may have changed settings), which will pop up  a panel over whatever you are doing.  You can turn it off or choose bubbles.  Settings/notifications/advanced settings/floating notifications - tap and select.  Also, check your notification pop up style to choose brief instead of detailed - it will give you a smaller window.

[BlackConvoy]

Just checked, and it's already set to bubbles. I did go and change the style to brief, so hopefully that helps.

[nullandvoid]

Try to get a screen shot if it happens again.  If we can see what's happening, we can better understand what you are seeing.

[nullandvoid]

If, on the other hand, you mean that once you get a notification, somehow the notification shade is opening itself up, that's a serious glitch.  After your update did you clear the phone's cache partition?  You should do that now, in case there's some leftover temp files hanging around crossing wires.