{"id":95499,"date":"2025-06-21T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/smartphone-users-turning-off-news-alerts-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:57:09","slug":"smartphone-users-turning-off-news-alerts-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/smartphone-users-turning-off-news-alerts-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone users turning off news alerts, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Web Desk: A new global survey reveals that many smartphone users are increasingly disabling news notifications, citing notification fatigue as a primary reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 79% of respondents typically do not receive news alerts in a given week. Among these, 43% have actively turned off such notifications altogether.<\/p>\n

The report indicates that users often disable alerts because they feel overwhelmed by the volume or find them unhelpful. Nic Newman, the lead researcher, noted, \u201cPublishers are navigating a delicate balance when sending news alerts.<\/p>\n

They tend to limit the number and carefully choose the timing and content of notifications to avoid annoyance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study also highlights a significant rise in the prevalence of news alerts over the past decade. For instance, in the United States, the percentage of people receiving weekly notifications increased from 6% in 2014 to 23% today.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in the United Kingdom, figures rose from 3% to 18% during the same period.<\/p>\n

Many consumers report feeling inundated by various mobile notifications\u2014not just news alerts, but also sports scores, calendar reminders, messaging group notifications, and social media alerts\u2014leading to widespread notification fatigue.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Web Desk: A new global survey reveals that many smartphone users are increasingly disabling news notifications, citing notification fatigue as a primary reason. According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 79% of respondents typically do not receive news alerts in a given week. Among these, 43% have actively turned off such notifications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mon-noti.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t