Where is the setting in the app? There’s nothing in my LHV app to switch on push notifications. I’m using an Android phone.
I’m on iOS. The App update just said notifications were now enabled. Not had chance to test it out yet.
I’ve just updated to the latest Android app release and nothing obvious in settings to enable/disable.
If you go to your phone’s app management though, there is a toggle there.
No idea if it works mind 
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Push notifications hidden behind feature flags ahead of being turned on.
I made a purchase this afternoon using my LHV debit card on my Google Pixel and got a notification - so it looks like the service is live!
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Yup, works for me on iOS. Just did a transfer and received a notification from LHV.
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I’m having cold feet about LHV. I’d been using the bank for all my spending, apart from direct debits. At the end of August I bought a new phone. I set up the LHV app and for a few days it worked perfectly fine. Then suddenly it decided I needed to go through the setup process again and I got a message to say LHV had been set up on a new phone. I emailed the bank and they said if it happened again could I send a video. Two days later, I was out and about and it happened again. I tried capturing screenshots, but they were all blank. Clearly screenshots had been disabled - not sure for whose benefit though.
App-only banking makes me nervous anyway, there is no alternative access to your funds - and when this sort of thing happens it makes you realise that at some point you might not even be able to transfer your money to an alternative bank. LHV doesn’t offer phone banking or timely support so you could be in a very difficult position with no recourse.
I emailed them again but have received no response. It’s back to my Child & Co account for now.
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I don’t know why LHV suddenly became so popular. It was clear that it was not ready for prime time.
For me with LHV I went to sign up and they insisted on my details around my income/student status. I don’t see how being a student is related to opening a non-student account so I refused and they withdrew the application based on me telling them I would rather cancel it if they weren’t willing to ignore that.
DD’s now live in the payments section of the App.
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I really want to use LHV as my main bank account, but my bank details are not being accepted by companies - I fill in the direct debit mandate online and they tell me my account number is incorrect - which it’s not. It’s a case of one step forward, two steps back. I can’t abide the nannification of the banking system. I know my account details but clearly the computer says ‘no’. Any ideas what I need to do next?
I suspect they are using an out of date database that they haven’t bothered to update.
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I have no idea what you mean, but this is nothing to do with the banks; this is entirely down to whichever ‘companies’ you’re trying to use.
Other than nag the relevant companies to update their arbitrary sort code definitions, which is quite likely to be fruitless, there is nothing you can do.
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I am really surprised you, or all people, have no idea what I mean. The increasing tendency to have the customer jump through hoops to access their own money, ostensibly to ‘protect’ them. Do you really think the banks have no input on the matter in question?
Validating this field is usually for the purposes of protecting the organisations who need your bank details, i.e. ensuring they do not attempt to send money to non-existent sort codes.
There are ways to do it without relying on static lists, but unfortunately until recently a static list usually sufficed.
100%, this is entirely down to an oversight on the part of whoever built the form you’re filling in - it relies on a static list rather than a proper maintained database table of active sort codes.
Exactly the same as organisations who do BIN validation to check card provenance but never update the BIN definition list, causing frustration whenever new BINs are used or worse BIN are recycled from another international issuer.
Why me of all people? What’s personal about this?
It’s odd that EE Broadband accepted my LHV details and set up the direct debit, but EE Mobile was unable to set it up, even when I called and spoke to them. It was a ‘computer says no’ situation with no override. I’ve had to reinstate my old bank details because I don’t want some direct debits coming from one account and some from another when the account details are perfectly valid. It annoys me that they say it’s to protect me . . .
EE Broadband was still Orange Broadband reskinned last time I interacted with it, which has its provenance in Wannado and Freeserve before that.
EE’s mobile operations are running on what was once T-Mobile’s billing system, which may still have elements from one2one.
I dunno if you care for an explanation, but “different systems” is probably it.
It’s nothing to do with protecting you, that’s just bullshit they’re saying to get you off the phone. Complain if you want, you may or may not get anywhere with it.
I’m still none the wiser as to how you’ve concluded that EE’s irrationality is a symptom of “nannification of the banking system”, given EE is not a bank…
Maybe I should have used the word ‘financial’ rather than ‘banking’.
Not sure that makes sense either “the financial system” isn’t a thing, even within EE it seems!
Perhaps just a general pivot away from sensationalism might help.
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Maybe a pivot away from egotism might help too? You’re nit-picking words. Let’s find an acceptable term instead of ‘banking’ or ‘financial system’ which might elude pedantry. Maybe ‘when dealing with financial matters’? I know many people who would know exactly what I mean about the ‘nannification of the banking system’. People who want to do perfectly ordinary things like accessing their own money, calling a company to pay a bill, depositing a large sum of money, transferring funds to another of their accounts and it being blocked or delayed, using a credit card to pay a perfectly normal bill and it triggering a fraud algorithm, wanting to access their banking on a computer and having to verify in an app which they didn’t want to use in the first place, setting up a direct debit now many companies have instigated verification and telling the customer they have input incorrect account details; just a few examples. I find it incredulous you fail to see what I mean.