&gt; Second, why does the os allow this many notifications? Obviously this is an edge case, but there are countless apps and any of them could have a bug or unexpected situation like this that causes a lot of notifications.<p>A low and configurable limit exists w.r.t. the number of notifications per app that will appear in the lock screen or notification drawer.<p>The user also has full control over whether s&#x2F;he wants any notifications at all from Instagram.<p>I don’t see the problem.