1818422 - Audit Android 13+ notifications use cases

Status: ASSIGNED

(Fenix :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Joe M [:jmahon]]

In order to make the right product choices for how to handle the new types of notification permissions prompts & in-app settings, we need to know what use cases trigger the notifications in the first place.

This epic is an opportunity for someone to do an investigation to identify all the places that would be affected by notification permissions. For instance:

item	impact	proposed permission handling
sync tabs	sending tabs won't work	prompt after 'sign in to sync' flows
file downloads	download notification won't show	prompt after downloading a file
media controls	won't appear	not sure

(this is just a sample; please actually review these use cases, and identify any additional use cases for notifications)

Please create a document (and link it here) with the results of this investigation so Engineering can pull in Product and UX to make some decisions about how to handle them on a case-by-case basis.

Comment 1

[Joe M [:jmahon]]

Update from conversation with Mike: Android 11+ permissions don't need to be evaluated in this audit; the app currently has a fine workaround, and the solution to the Android 11 permissions flow would apply to all instance of permissions requests equally.

This epic should focus on identifying all the places that notifications could occur.

Comment 2

[Alexandru Putanu [:aputanu]]

Hi! Here are the results of the investigation: document

Comment 3

[Joe M [:jmahon]]

Thanks so much, :aputanu! That outline looks great.

This ticket is effecitvely done, but I'm going to leave it open (and self-assign it) to ensure we have next steps documented.

Comment 4

[Joe M [:jmahon]]

Channing is going to create a UX ticket and link it to this one, then we can resolve this one