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Michal Bryxรญ
Michal Bryxรญ

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Google Photos & undismissable notification in Utilities

There are few things more frustrating than misbehaving tech with easy to reproduce bugs that, for some reason, are ignored for years.

One of those for me is Google Photos "Utilities notification" that simply keeps re-appearing cards with automated creations that I dismissed twenty times before.

Utilities with number one as notification next to it

If you have the same issue, then you can pop open developer tools console (command + option i) and paste following code there:

$$('[aria-label="Dismiss"]').forEach(element => element.click());
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This will find all the "dismiss" buttons on all the cards and press them. You will probably need to do few full page reloads and repeat the command, as Google Photos is even bad at the "infinite scrolling" load implementation, but this alone should save you few dozens of clicks.

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