Ghosted by my phone

We are more reachable than ever yet constantly missing the memo as the useful gets filtered out along with the fluff

- Shephali Bhatt

A few weeks ago, I was obsessively checking my phone, hoping to see a notification from Google Docs. I had shared a piece with my editor and wanted to hear her thoughts. A day passed. Then two. Nothing.

A few days later, while opening the doc for something else, I noticed she'd already made comments and edits—all sitting there silently. I just never got the notification.

After a little digging, I discovered I now had to manually enable notifications to be alerted if someone made changes to my document—a setting I didn't remember touching. I had been getting updates smoothly for years. So, who was at fault? The app or the device?