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YouTube's notification test impacts channels you rarely interact with

This test might help YouTube limit how often users disable platform notifications.

YouTube states it's trying to reduce the number of times users "turn off all notifications" from the platform within Settings, instead of changing the specific channel's behavior. The test will still make those newly uploaded video notifications available via the bell icon in the app, but they won't appear on your phone as an alert. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)YouTube offers three types of notification settings for channels: All, Personalized, and None.

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