"Enable notifications for this session" setting is confusing #19954
Labels
A-Notifications
A-User-Settings
O-Occasional
Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely
S-Minor
Impairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds exist
T-Defect
X-Needs-Design
Z-GetYourUpdates
Because I don't expect a non-technical user (or one who don't know Matrix) to understand what a session is. Actually, yesterday evening once I had paged work stuff out of my head, I accidentally disabled notifications on my whole account by accident because at a glance "Enable notifications for this account" seemed to be the only relevant setting I could untick to prevent notifications from popping on my phone. And it's only this morning when I had a few more brain cycles to understand the technical implications that I understood that "Enable notifications for this session" is the setting I wanted.
Note that I initially had this issue with Element Android but filed it in this repo since web/desktop use the same terminology and I was advised to report it here. As a sidenote, iOS uses "device" instead of "session" which in my experience is equally confusing for non-technical users.
I'd suggest rewording into something like "Enable notifications in this app".
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