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?

[nullandvoid]

The status bar serves other purposes besides being a notification beacon. If you want to know if an incoming notification is important, turn on notification categories and create a specific sound for your priority notifications.  As I said, you can also set notifications to repeat so your memory can be jogged that there's a notification you didn't attend to.  Once upon a time, we had no answering machines, voicemail or portable phones, so when we left the house or were too busy to answer our phones, we either had to expire of curiosity and hope the caller would call back, or just go about our day.  While modern technology strives to keep us in the know at all times, I think it's more stress inducing than being blissfully unaware.  If I was expecting an important notification and didn't see an icon, I'd be checking the app or pulling down the shade.  Once again, custom sounds and repeat notifications are an option.  

Even when one had the ability to fill up their bar with notification  icons, there was still a limit on how many could appear there.  You would still have the potential to miss something important.   I'm truly sorry I can't muster up any sympathy for those who are annoyed at this new configuration, as I am quite sure there are many, many things in daily life that used to be one way and now are not.

[V4]

I'm sorry are you arguing against choice? You are yet offering more steps that I have to do for something that literally required 0 effort before. Your arguments aren't even sound. There was still a limit? Yes a much more reasonable one so the likelihood is Much lower. Things used to be one way and now they're not so just accept it? What kind of argument even is that? If you can't muster up sympathy for someone else then maybe you should move along? It's not hard to create a choice in the matter, then everyone can have what they want. If it required a lot of money or time to change maybe I'd understand but the functionality is already built in. Apparently you just want to argue with people. There would literally be no adverse affect on you if they defaulted to the behavior you like and provided me the option to change it back. So why are you here arguing against it?

You're literally saying "I like it this way so nobody else should have anything they want but me because I find it stupid".

[nullandvoid]

I'm arguing against the sheer laziness of people who think it's too much trouble to swipe.

[V4]

Yes thanks for confirming you just want to argue with people. Making things easier to access is literally one of the most basic concepts in software and creating more clicks or actions to do the same thing you could do before for less is generally considered bad design. Your previous reply mentioned the old days with answering machines, and I see your connection between that and what you perceive to be laziness but I believe a wise man once said "I am quite sure there are many, many things in daily life that used to be one way and now are not."

[nullandvoid]

First of all, setting up repeat notifications or custom app sounds takes no extra effort at all, it's a one time configuration and then you never have to think about it again, except to remember which sound you assigned to what app.

It's not as if the notifications don't remain in the panel.  You can designate a specific time of day to go through your notifications - the way people do with emails.

[V4]

That's completely not true. Custom app sounds? Have to go into each app that you want a different one and change it. Got a new app you like to use often? Have to set that up now too. Also, that doesn't even cover when your phone is on silent or you walk away. So now you have to do the same for repeat notifications, which also still may not be helpful. That Amazon package I talked about? Maybe you don't have a package coming in and now you have to make sure you clear any other notification Amazon sends because it's also repeating, and that's the same logic for any app. None of your logic is sound, just leave it alone and let people have whatever they want. The Samsung members forum isn't the hill to die on for fighting perceived laziness.

[nullandvoid]

You are completely determined to make your life difficult, or find roadblocks where there are none.  Notifications stay up until you dismiss them.  Big deal, when you get a new app, you set the custom sound for it and you never have to do it again.  If your phone is on silent or do not disturb and you are expecting an important notification, you can modify do not disturb to let notifications from that app make a sound, or you can create a routine for certain apps to always make a sound.

Send feedback directly to the developers. This is a peer-to-peer user forum and, as such, the developers do not read or act upon any requests made here. If you want something to change, the only way is to send feedback directly. Nothing you post here will affect anything regarding Samsung programming. https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Tips-Tricks/How-to-Send-Feedback/ba-p/3001692

[V4]

Again false. You just said it doesn't require any effort and that's false, and I just gave you an example where it doesn't cover all scenarios and the fact that now it's an ongoing thing you have to maintain. I'm determined to make my life less difficult by voicing my opinion to change it back. An active community can and will get attention, and can be used as evidence in such feedback that others want the feature too and it's not just a single person. I have already submitted feedback and have received a response awhile back. To say nothing here will ever get back to them is also false.

Thank you for your link, it will also help others. Seems my complaints helped further my goal after all.

[nullandvoid]

The development team neither reads nor acts upon comments here.  If you want change, all those that want it must send direct feedback to the developers through the feedback link in the support tab.  Only then, *maybe* they will get enough feedback to consider making the changes requested.  They are not going to go through the effort for a handful of complaints.

[tchowell1992]

Can we at least have an option to prioritize three apps to take those three spots? I shouldn't have to pull down a notification tray when all I want to see is if any important notifications are there. Should be look at phone, see notifications, nothing important, continue what I am doing. That is it!