A coder has discovered that Twitter Inc is testing a new update feature that will mute all push notifications for a certain period of time. The experimental feature was discovered by Jane Manchun Wong.
Wong found the feature by looking at the code underneath the social network’s Android app. Wong found a built-in bell-shaped snooze button at the top right corner of the notifications tab — tapping it brings up the Snooze Notifications panel that lets you mute push notifications for up to 12 hours. Just tap it again to un-snooze or to change the snooze duration.
Twitter is testing Snooze feature, allowing users to pause notifications for 1 hour, 3 hours or 12 hours!
I wrote a blog for the first look of this unreleased feature https://t.co/EoNYaRHraQ
Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/qm3aMM2Q00
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 6, 2019
According to Wong, the current ‘Snooze’ feature is shown as a “bell” button on top of the Twitter app’s Notifications tab. By tapping the button, the app will provide a bottom sheet of various length of Snooze durations. During the snooze, you will not receive push notifications from Twitter. The notifications will still appear in your Notifications tab, as indicated. You could always tap the button to unsnooze or adjust the duration.
Twitter is working on a Snooze button for muting Push Notifications
Twitter has been putting efforts on improving users’ wellbeings. And this is no exception apart from Replies Moderations, Filtered Messages UI, etc pic.twitter.com/phrie44mqT
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 4, 2019
Take note that you’ll still see new replies and tweets in the notifications tab, where they’ll continue to accumulate until you’re ready to look at them — or to swipe them away from view, unseen and unread. While experimental features are, well, experiments that may never be released widely, the snooze button could be Twitter’s answer to other social networks’ and tech giants’ offerings meant to prevent social media burnout. Last year, Facebook rolled out time management tools in hopes users would monitor their own usage without quitting the platform entirely. Google also released Digital Wellbeing tools that let users set time limits on app usage.
Wong had also, previously spotted Twitter tested an option to moderate replies. And this ‘Snooze Notifications’ feature is no exception.
Twitter is testing replies moderation. It lets you to hide replies under your tweets, while providing an option to show the hidden replies pic.twitter.com/dE19w4TLtp
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 28, 2019
