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Here's an alternate solution: Have the sound for the notification play before the popup actually appears on the screen, say 0.25 seconds.
by nibnalin 9y ago
Here's an alternate solution: Have the sound for the notification play before the popup actually appears on the screen, say 0.25 seconds.
- RandallBrown 9y agoI never have the sound turned up on my phone. Most people I know are the same.
- nibnalin 9y agoOf course, in such a case, the vibration should be before the popup...
- jsjohnst 9y agoHow would that help? Not saying you are wrong, just not seeing how it would help so would like you to explain your theory more.
- nibnalin 9y agoIt's easy to get our brains used to frequent gestures, I haven't tested, but I'd guess after a while, our brains would get programmed to just swipe away the dialog before continuing with the original task
- jsjohnst 9y agoDisagree, human reaction time isn’t fast enough. This literally happens when my finger is millimeters from touching the screen to perform my intended action.
- zimpenfish 9y agoMy phone is permanently on mute. How would that help me?
- nibnalin 9y agoIt does vibrate on notifications still, right? I'd be willing to guess users who have vibrate turned off as well are a very small percentage.
- natch 9y agoI have all sounds and vibrations turned off. Works great in conjunction with an Apple watch that has vibrations turned on. Not arguing with your percentage guess; I'd guess the same thing... just saying there are some of us :-). Edit: BTW the described idea probably wouldn't work with my Apple watch setup, because it seems there can be some latency between the iPhone and the watch with respect to notifications. I wouldn't want to get a vibration on the watch then be wondering for a few seconds "when is something going to pop up on my phone?" I realize technically the notification comes to the phone first under the hood... but where it is displayed first is a matter of programming.
- nibnalin 9y agoVery interesting. Slightly unrelated, but since this seems to be the primary motive behind an Apple Watch(notification improvements), I'm curious how your workflow works out for you? Having seen how often the bluetooth/wifi calling and messaging fails b/w my iPhone and Mac, I decided against trying an Apple Watch. Is it any better?
- natch 9y agoThere's not much workflow to it. Unfortunately I don't use the watch for much other than two very useful functions: 1) getting bumped when there's an incoming notification, or getting a hard to ignore vibration when I have an incoming call; 2) using the "find my phone" feature, which is super convenient compared to logging on to icloud.com, and makes your phone play a ping sound even if it's otherwise silent. Sometimes I have to turn on sound on the phone for things like Waze or for playing videos or music. But the ringer stays off (due to settings). The connection with the iPhone and Mac seems fine. However, with my watch (1st generation) a couple of updates ago the lost phone ping feature got a new unwelcome degree of latency. It can now take up to 30 seconds for the phone to ping, where it used to be immediate. I don't know if this is the case for newer models. Nor could I say whether the problem is on the watch side, or the phone side (doesn't matter, I guess). But at least it still works.