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Festered4rd5tfgvhb
Helpful | Level 6
10 months ago

How do I disable ALL taskbar notifications?

Whenever one of these notifications occur, it creates a balloon notification icon next to the Dropbox taskbar icon which I find to be distracting.  In this case it is for a tip which I do not care to see.  I thought I have all notifications disabled as shown below, am I missing something else?

 

 

 

 

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    Festered4rd5tfgvhb wrote:

    In this case it is for a tip which I do not care to see.  I thought I have all notifications disabled as shown below, am I missing something else?


    Some notifications, such as the one in your screenshot, cannot be disabled.

    • Festered4rd5tfgvhb's avatar
      Festered4rd5tfgvhb
      Helpful | Level 6

      While I understand the reasoning why the notifications balloons can't be disabled as they notify important events such as sign ins, these tips that are coming through as notifications are the core of my issue.  In nearly all mainstream software applications for Windows, there are usually options to disable tips.  Some users such as me find tips like this to be annoying and distracting, especially since in this case they change the icon of the taskbar and alert me of something that I don't actually find important at all.  While the icon can be moved to the taskbar's overflow menu, that makes it harder to check the status and access the drop box control center.

       

      Its a shame that Dropbox tried so hard that they ended up just burdening the user with an annoying feature like this.  To those who say unnecessary notifications aren't a big deal, why is there an Android app called AutoNotification with over 100K downloads that lets users disable any notification including system ones on their device?  All of my devices are set up to not spam me with any kind of notification unless I find it important.  So these Drop Box notifications are like a small noise in a quiet room which is why I am unable to cope with using this service.

       

       

       

      • Megan's avatar
        Megan
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Hey Festered4rd5tfgvhb, thanks for posting here!

         

        Your feedback regarding our Dropbox desktop application & notifications has been very valuable and I will endeavor to make sure your voice is heard.

         

        I will pass on your comments to the relevant departments so that we can further improve our product.

         

        If you need anything else, let me know!

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