Current Events > It's pretty annoying how bad notifications are on the iPhone

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IMO notifications are pretty much the most important software feature of a smartphone.

for those of you guys that don't use iPhones, they have always used the little badge icons to indicate if there's a notification for an app:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8w7488

unfortunately these don't really give you a good overview of what's up on your phone, so a while ago Apple copied the notification shade from Android and made their own version that looks like this:

https://i.redd.it/7os9rxxib7nz.jpg

And that was pretty cool, you can see all your notifications at once, separated by category. Then iOS 10 rolls around and they changed the shade to look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/y8q9ptom

So you can't see the notifications sorted by group anymore, it's all just a giant wall of notifications, and every single action on your phone gets you an individual notification rather than grouping similar ones together (if you get 20 messages in a group chat it gives you 20 notifications rather than 1 that says you have 20 group messages).

to take it to an even dumber level, iOS 11 does this:

http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/iOS-11-Notification-Center-redesign.jpeg

So now to top off the lack of organization in 10 the notifications are not grouped together & the shade is bascially just the lock screen, with your music widget and clock and shit taking up all the space so you have to scroll.


who thought this was a good idea? it's been driving me nuts
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That seems like a good idea. That way I wouldn't have to open a bunch of different apps to see individual messages.
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"Air miles would like to offer you 5x the miles when you soend 300 dollars!"

Every. Fucking. Day.

lol iphone
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KainWind posted...

That seems like a good idea. That way I wouldn't have to open a bunch of different apps to see individual messages.

the thing is that most apps only show you a portion of the message you receive and they're in ascending order, so it's not really intuitive
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