Get notifications only when featured

I find navigating the setting on Android less than optimal. Could someone please advise if it is possible to get Your picture is featured notifications only? I don’t want the Your edit has been published notifications.

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Yes, that’s possible @MortenCopenhagen
However, you need using some specific app and create macros to do automated purging based on defined filter criteria.

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Hi @MortenCopenhagen ,

you can see what type of notifications are available at this url. However, as stated there as well, the notifications are not guaranteed to come exactly as meant because they evaluate different signals. I think there is no exact control to choose to have them or not at so detailed level and with guarantee that it will be like that.

I received for example notifications about specific photos of mine which hit a very high view and checking it was featured, so there is definitely something like that in background.

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Hi @MortenCopenhagen

There is not actually this details of setting in Google Maps.

We receive two types of notifications: by email and directly from the app. My notification about “your photos is featured” are coming from the app, while the notifications about published edits are coming with an email.

Feel free to use Idea exchange to suggest an improvement of the notification, with a more detailed selection about the information we want to receive and how

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Hi @LuigiZ

Thanks for sharing the link. So apparent we can not control is as detailed as I hoped for.

Cheers

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Hi @ErmesT

Thanks for a clear answer. If you imply that Your edit has been published notifications are not also from the app I must dissagree. I have had app notifications off for a long time. After turning them on again the app kept sending them almost constantly. Approximately 1-2 per hour. Many of them very very old. Months old. They were the reason for my question. Currently I had to turn app notifications off again since they became too annoying for that excate reason.

I think it would be better if we could turn on and off the different types of notifications individually and hence circumvent the AI on this.

The reason being that some types of notification are more helpful and relevant than others when trying to improve your mapping skills and focusing on certain skills.

Don’t know yet if I will propose an idea on this.

Thanks.

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