Only 3 notifications and 4 status icons at the top?

[martymacfly]

Is this for real: just set up my S25+, and I only see 3 notification icons at the top left plus a dot, and 4 status icons on the right (speaker, WiFi, signal, battery). When I swipe down, I see I have 7 notifications and 7 status icons. I can NEVER tell if my alarm, Bluetooth, or NFC is ON. What gives Samsung? Will you fix this? I finally retired my beloved S20+, and this is enough for me to dump the S25+ for something that isn't going backwards.

Am I the only one experiencing this? Am I missing something?

[Robin621k]

Google has decided Live Notifications are more important than having more than 3 notifications at any one time. This should be a user option, not an edict, IMO.

I can live with it because I don't mind pulling down my shade to look at my notifications. I am retentive. I like a clean screen and have my notification area to only show a dot that I have notifications.

[pabloman]

I understand, but don't like it. Riding a motorcycle it's nice to know if the priority level of the different notifications. Should I stop or can it wait. Difficult to determine from a dot.

[Robin621k]

I have different tones for different apps, I know where the notification is coming from the sound my phone makes. If I am wearing buds, the notification is read to me,

[pabloman]

How do you get the phone to automatically read the notification?

[Robin621k]

It does when I am wearing buds!

https://youtu.be/PI2Ae7DqvJM?si=W12oH6gRzraX5G8Q

[Oxford]

Why are you looking at your phone while you're riding a motorcycle?

[V4]

I just bought a new phone and I also don't understand why at least the option wasn't left up to us. There are many reasons to want to see more notifications. If I step away for a moment and come back I can't just glance at it I have to open the entire notification tray.  Or lets say I'm at work and receive a text that I can't reply to, its a quick reminder to respond when you can. You won't know you forgot until you open the tray! 

I, and many others, routinely have more than 3 notifications. It kind of defeats the purpose of the notification bar to begin with if you ever have more than 3 notifications since you have to open the tray anyway! **bleep**, with how many emails people receive a day its really only like we have 2 notifications. Definitely seems more like Samsung is trying to copy apple.

If some people like it, fine, but give those who don't and those who have become accustomed to how android handles notifications, the options to not have it that way. Wouldn't even be difficult to code in.