Many users of the Airbnb app received a notification very early in the morning (in the United States), which was completely innocuous. Little joke of a developer or simple error, the mystery remains whole.
Midway through last week, Wednesday to be exact, your Android smartphone may have lit up with a notification from the Airbnb app saying, ” Dev testing “. No worries or pride to be derived from it: you have neither been chosen for a special test, nor been hacked. It was just a bug.
An event relayed on Twitter
Some users who received the notification were quick to share this key event in their existence on Twitter. Most of the notifications were sent very early on Wednesday morning, around 3 or 4 a.m. Northeast American time, or between 9 and 10 a.m. in France. Obviously, it was addressed to a large number of people.
The more reckless – or the more unaware – who dared to click on this “Test dev” alert were unfortunately not entitled to the slightest surprise: it returned prosaically to the home page of the Airbnb application, without any other extravagance or reward.
Apologies, but no explanations
Airbnb spokesperson Elle Wyve apologized to app users: A push notification was mistakenly sent to Android users of the Airbnb app, and we are investigating how this happened. Users who received the notification can safely ignore it, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. “.
It’s likely that this notification was just accidentally sent by a developer working on the app. The latter has probably inadvertently chosen the wrong channel of the application for his tests. At least this test worked.
Well, you will agree, this incident was not dramatic. And if you decide to turn off app notifications on Android, but you don’t know how to do it, follow the guide.
Source : 9to5Google
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