Notification Center Fix Discussion

Submitted by Wede1993 t3_yx8kq4 in iphone

There’s plenty of talk about not liking how Notification Center hides notifications arbitrary. Needing to swipe to see some notifications is not instinctual to some users, hiding things that should be notifying me does seem a bit contradictory.

Notifications from the top down like before like older iOS versions helps, but being able to customize the Notification Center could make it even better.

Apple can merge the the idea of Focus modes with Notification Center, allowing us to chose which notifications are sent to the Notification Center, if any, and when they would be sent. We could use it to make our own filters. For example, I want text messages to always be displayed upfront on my Lock Screen, but I would like my emails to go right to the Notification Center so that I can easily check them without being bombarded all day by notifications. Like a “default” focus mode.

Alternatively, make it a location to snooze notifications. Notifications could have the option to swipe or long press to send to the snooze Notification Center, where they are visible by swiping up. Maybe a setting to re-notify you after a set time.

Either way, utilizing Notification Center to group by priority rather than age could have more benefit to the user. How is everyone managing notifications with iOS 16?

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Fields0fTheNephilim t1_iwng4j2 wrote

Notifications on ios are a complete clusterfuck.

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Wede1993 OP t1_iwnghbo wrote

There’s a lot of things they implement, Notification Center, focus, options of banners and stacking and such, but it still feels like it’s not simple and “just works”

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help-lm-alive t1_iwnfmcl wrote

the only thing i’m constantly annoyed by are notifications that I’ve read/cleared/clicked/etc will show up again ~2 hours later like they’re brand new.

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Wede1993 OP t1_iwnftvx wrote

Interesting, I have kind of an opposite problem where some of my notifications will just show up directly in Notification center or move there (without my locking and unlocking the phone) after a minute.

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nitroben2 t1_iwnww5z wrote

Sounds like you, like me, are looking for a more Android like experience in this area. Almost everything listed by op are things I miss about managing notifications on my pixel.

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Wede1993 OP t1_iwnxfa2 wrote

Absolutely! Apple was the best for straightforward. I converted from android to Apple around iPhone 6/6s and haven’t even thought about going back until we got iOS 16.

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nitroben2 t1_iwnxi3a wrote

Especially the temporarily silence notifications from a particular app or single conversation in text. When my family gets going about something while I'm at work I used to just silence that conversation until end of day so I would still get my work texts without getting pinged every 30 seconds for 2 hours.

Edit to add: I know iMessage can hide alerts on an individual text string but I can't do it from the notification itself.

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