Since a few weeks ago Strava is at it again with pushing "features" down your throat. Now among the notifications for an activity I have to read Strava's stupid "motivational" messages (you're doing great, keep at it, da da da). Anyone can help me get rid of those?
Best answer by Jane
Hello,
Thanks to everyone who has commented and provided feedback. The testing phase is completed and these notifications are now in production.
While this cannot be completely disabled, you do have the ability to disable the push notification. Push notifications are "pushed" to your mobile device when the Strava app is either closed or running in the background.
This can be turned off by going to:
You Tab
Settings (top right)
Push Notifications
Un-toggling Device Activity Synced
The push notification settings do not affect the in-app notifications you receive in the mobile app or on the Strava website.
Again, we appreciate the feedback and it has been passed along to the Team.
+18Hi @Jane11 this could be disabled instantly and reimplemented when there's a proper way to enable/disable the notices. People have voiced their complaints for weeks yet nothing has changed.
+26Wow! Great work at writing a post @Jane11! Your post is ready, please dive into your stats! Kudos for completely ignoring every complaint!
@Jane11 - So Strava's solution is to blatently ignore all of their paying customers? Wow. The push notifications are the only way most of us know whether or not our activities uploaded which is increasingly necessary due to the glitchy-ness of the program. All we want is a simple "your activity has been uploaded". That's it. Why can't there be two different sets of push notifications, one for basic confirmation of upload and another for the 3rd graders who need the extra encouragement? What was the point of the testing phase if you were already planning to completely ignore the responses? Did you actually get ANY positive feedback from that?
+6Messages saying things like 'wow' or 'amazing' when I've completed an activity seem a bit over the top. I did a run. Probably slower than most, but the app thinks I need a trumpet fanfare. My last run involved climbing 40m over a 5km distance, but apparently I'm some kind of superhero.
I'm an adult. I don't need this kind of language. If anything, it's demotivating.
It's useful to have a notification, but when a bot pretends to be my biggest fan, it seems a bit ridiculous.
Any chance of Strava toning things down, do you think?
Well said. They are not changing anything back, apparently. My only recourse is to stop payment when my subscription is up so at least I won't be paying to be annoyed. I'll have fewer features but at least the irony won't be killing me.
These are so annoying. I know when I have done an activity, I don’t need a reminder from Strava. Maybe Strava should ask their users what we want. Turn this spam off please.
I am cancelling the subscription portion of my account when it is up for exactly this reason.
Omg. These are so annoying and awful.
Strava please please please remove:
- motivational messages
- missing health data messages. Please STOP!!
I canceled my subscription today with a note: "Motivational" notifications after uploading an activity.
Too bad, I'd been a subscriber since 2015 but I'm not going to pay money to have Strava can push out childish notifications like these with no user control.
They left us no choice when they ignored our complaint. Only way to get people's attention is through the wallet. My theory is that they saw the meteoric rise of Peloton and wanted a piece of that, somehow. What they fail to remember is that this once-great platform is about athletes and the athletes they follow. Cheerleaders have no place where athletes are already so motivated that they are looking only for more time to ride. Strava has really blown it. Cheers, taa022! Have a great season.
I'm with you, and many others. I have been a subscriber since 2013 (with a 2 yr hiatus due to Strava ignoring paying customers on a very similar topic - they were forcing us to see the activities of everyone we followed each time we uploaded a new activity, instead of letting us immediately check OUR activity and browse for the rest if we felt like).
I just canceled my subscription with this message:
Hate "Motivational" notifications after uploading an activity. Many PAYING customers are asking you to AT LEAST give us the option to turn off this FEATURE but you keep ignoring us. I'm not going to pay to be annoyed every time I upload an activity.
I'm fed up. This time I'm going to re-work how I get the same features I was using here through a combination of other apps that I've tried and I use on and off.
Jane,
Your reply sounds a little tone deaf, to say the least (basically, we heard all of you and we've decided not to do anything about your request). How does your reply even qualify as an "Accepted Solution"?! It's neither! First, you didn't solve the problem, and second, nobody that I can see "accepted" it in the dozens of replies to this thread. In fact you haven't got a SINGLE kudos on your proposed "solution" - that should be a hint.
I guess Strava has done the math and you're getting more money through that feature (somehow) that you're losing from people like me. What's really a pity is that you could get both (so all the money/not lose any revenue) if you were only a bit more flexible. Why are you so obtuse and bent over FORCING these things on PAYING customers. Can it be so difficult to add the functionality to get these messages or not when there's already tons of places in the app to do basically the same thing (customize the interface/experience, specifically the messages)? You'd just add one more line/toggle switch. Just baffled...
I just canceled my paid subscription with this message:
Hate "Motivational" notifications after uploading an activity. Many PAYING customers are asking you to AT LEAST give us the option to turn off this FEATURE but you keep ignoring us. I'm not going to pay to be annoyed every time I upload an activity. I'm fed up. This time I'm going to re-work how I get the same features I was using here through a combination of other apps that I've tried and I use on and off.
Plus one to everyone else. We’re athletes, not school children. Please turn off the patronizing messages.
Enough with the condescending bot motivation push notifications, irritating, like congratulating an infant for farting
+7I'm not sure why would anyone need to know if it was successfully uploaded, wouldn't it be better get notification only when it failed to upload or when require user interaction? Again, every single type of notification should have an option to turn it off, it's should be a law.
As an internally motivated adult paying money to use Strava as a tool, the patronising/motivational communication style is extremely aggravating. At the very least there should be the option to switch to concise matter-of-fact updates.
Turn this crap off. Wow, you went for a 900 meter dog stroll. You're so freaking amazing. My whole day is amazing now.
+18Doesn't that just make you feel so motivated? Nothing like pathetic pats on the back
Stil get the kudos from Strava itself. Very annoying. Problem was issued last year but stil not fixed!!
This is not a solution. PLEASE give subscribers the option to change notification style. It wouldn’t be hard. I don’t have push notifications set up but this is still so annoying. Which in-app notification goes to which activity? It doesn’t say which makes it hard to navigate to the activity I actually want to review (for example, a short dog walk vs my 50 mile bike ride. One of which deserves "diving into those stats" and one of which absolutely doesn't) Seriously an update that pisses off your subscribers makes zero sense.
+18Jane this is still a major issue. When will Strava turn it off or allow us to disable it. So annoying
Spent three days playing with notification setting trying to turn these off. Seriously, does anyone actually want these? I want to be notified when there is something that needs my attention, kudos from a bot for an activity I’m clearly already aware of is not something that needs my attention.
+12Yes, it's that bad. It undermines the value of words just like how the fed printing more money undermines the value of the money you already have.
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