A few of our iOS customers are experiencing a glitch with the Canvas App where their push notifications are reset to be "on" for everything. Changing the settings in the App or in a desktop browser changes things temporarily, but next time the app is opened they are all ON again!
The only fix seems to be removing the App and reinstalling it with push notifications off. We submitted a case with Instructure, but the technician had not heard of the issue.
I haven't heard back from my user yet. Here's what Canvas support said:
I'm sorry you are experiencing difficulty with the iOS Canvas app. It appears you are receiving an error for push notifications. After our recent app update release, if you receive this error typically it can be resolved by visiting your notification settings in the app and disabling and re-enabling push notifications. HERE is a guide that demonstrates this. Hope this helps!
I've heard of a few issues where people were getting duplicate notifications, but not reseting the notification settings. I tried to replicate the issue over a few users, but no luck. I'll keep investigating, but this might an issue that Canvas support might need to elevate to the mobile team.
One thing to try is to test on another device and see if it's device specific to these users. This can help narrow down the issue.
I haven't heard back from my user yet. Here's what Canvas support said:
I'm sorry you are experiencing difficulty with the iOS Canvas app. It appears you are receiving an error for push notifications. After our recent app update release, if you receive this error typically it can be resolved by visiting your notification settings in the app and disabling and re-enabling push notifications. HERE is a guide that demonstrates this. Hope this helps!
My user with the duplicate notifications in the iOS 3.7.2 app has found no solution to his problem. He is chalking it up as annoyance right now, but is willing to live with it until it is fixed. I've been trying to replicate on the office iPad, but so far I've not had any luck.
I have't heard back from my notifications "all on" user yet.
That duplicate notification issue should be fixed as of yesterday afternoon and into today. It was something fixed server side, so no app update needed. Let us know if you still see that issue after today!
I do agree with what support said, seems that toggling them seems to be failing for some reason. I have my fingers crossed that what they suggested fixes the issue! Let us know if that fixes it!
I began having the problem of all notifications getting toggled on every time I open the app on either my iPhone or my iPad. Here is what I have done so far to troubleshoot and attempt to repair:
1. uninstalled both apps
2. removed the access token for both devices
3. reinstalled both apps
4. set all notifications to OFF
5. launched both apps
6. re-established both access tokens
7. allowed push notifications on both apps
8. checked the Web app for status of notification toggles; all were set ON
9. closed both apps on mobile devices
10. set all notification toggles to OFF
11. reopened both apps
12. checked the Web app for status of notification toggles again; all were ON again
13. turned off push notifications in Settings for both devices.
14. repeated setting notification toggles to off
15. turned on push notifications in Settings for both devices
16. repeated checking Web app for status of notification toggles again; all were back ON again
I've had it. I'm turning push notifications OFF on both iPhone and iPad apps and leaving them off. Until the developers can correct this problem, it does nothing but fill up my notification screens with dozens of unnecessary and unwanted notifications every hour.
