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Notifications in iOS 12
- saagarjha 8y agoHaven't gotten a whole lot of proactive Siri suggestions yet, but the grouped notifications are really great. Quick replies have gotten a bit odd, though, because now all notifications also support ignoring them as an action so there's more context actions to everything.
- dep_b 8y agoIt's a pity I still coulnd't testdrive Siri Shortcuts. That app is coming much later apparently.
- saagarjha 8y agoSupposedly its launch will coincide with the public release of iOS 12. But you can try out a limit set of Siri's new features in Settings > Siri & Search.
- Infernal 8y agoYou can see a fairly large subset of what Siri Shortcuts appears to be by checking out the (now free) Workflow app: https://www.workflow.is https://www.workflow.is Apple bought it last spring, and based on the imagery from the WWDC keynote on Siri Shortcuts, SS is the same Workflow app with deeper system integration.
- dep_b 8y agoI have it actually and I like it. But I was looking forward to all the system integrated functions. They're partially there like I can create a workflow from the visited websites in Settings but it's not editable without the Shortcuts app.
- nottorp 8y agoThis is a really funny one. I opened The Verge and got the usual GDPR popup, I followed (pretty well hidden) links to the form where you can set your ad preferences and guess what they told me: You are using Safari which blocks third party tracking cookies. You have to enable third party tracking cookies to be able to disable our tracking cookies. No shit, Verge. No I won't. I'd rather not read the article.
- nottorp 8y agoSay, anyone can recommend a good Safari extension that blocks all the tracking stuff? I don't mean only ad blocking here... all the ad network data that isn't visible as an annoying video or so.
- moreira 8y agohttps://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari -> uBlock Origin for Safari. It's quite good.
- konradb 8y agoI would love something also for Safari and Chrome that just removed all the 'we value your privacy, press some button' popup that so many sites now have.
- overcast 8y agoMy solution for notifications, was disabling all of them, including noises. Keep the little badge icon that you can only see when logged in. Quality of life went up.
- ghaff 8y agoI don't disable all of them but I tend to agree that the best approach to notifications is to disable pretty much everything that isn't relatively low volume and/or something you actually want/need to deal with or know about more or less immediately. Social media, news. etc. definitely does not qualify.
- overcast 8y agoIt would be nice if there was something more granular, show notifications from your girlfriend.
- ghaff 8y agoIn messages/phone you can put people in a group that you can set to bypass Do Not Disturb which is almost the same thing as you're asking for. In other apps, I'm not sure how iOS would have the identity information to do what you ask.
- dpark 8y agoIs there some magic to make that work? So far as I can tell, this is only honored for phone calls. I don’t get texts from my wife when my phone is in DND mode, and she is in my allowed group.
- ghaff 8y agoIt's possible :-) that I'm wrong. I knew the feature existed for phone calls and I assumed that meant it worked for texts as well. But I haven't personally tried it. [ADDED: I could see the thinking being that if it's really urgent, someone will call and, if you're sleeping, a message notification won't reliably wake you up.]
- guardian5x 8y agoI would already be happy with a "Clear all" notifications button on my iPad Pro.
- yoz-y 8y agoPress and hold on the x on the top right of notifications does not work? (on iPhone it is done via 3d touch)
- bthrm 8y agoIdk about the iPad Pro but on iPhones with no 3D Touch there simply is no way to clear all notifications on iOS 11
- dkersten 8y agoOn my iPad pro, the X button only clears one days worth, so if I ignored them for a few days, I have to clear each day separately. Usually not a big deal since I do it every few days, but sometimes it can add up.
- beagle3 8y agoHopefully at some point they’ll get background safari notification, even at a very low “sampling” rate, e.g. check only once in ten minutes. Until then, there’s no hope for web apps compared to native apps.
- Gaelan 8y agoI thought this existed, but nope, it's Mac only. Darn.
- bthrm 8y agoThere will never be hope to web apps compared to native apps.
- MBCook 8y agoAllowing websites to harass me about notifications is one of the stupidest standards I’ve seen. No, I DONT want the latest news from X. If I did I’d use your RSS feed or Twitter or FV or something else.
- slig 8y agoThose notifications work for normal people, and there're services that will send them for free and with no limits. No wonder lots of sites use them.
- codq 8y agoEven with grouping (FIANLLY) and granular DnD and priority settings, iOS notifications still seem stuck in the Stone Age compared with Android P.
- microcolonel 8y agoIt really is astonishing that they've gone all these years without copying the best parts of the clearly-more-beloved android notification tray.
- drb91 8y agoIt’s a point of constant frustration for me when on call—i actually want three levels of notifications (most notifications show without alert, some vibrate, and pagerduty rings). When awake, i want more notifications to vibrate, but i want all phone calls to ring. Thankfully the apple watch has addressed this by actually waking me up when i get a call, so i can just turn vibrate + Do Not Disturb on, but it’s so confusing how they market their mobile devices as being for professionals when their notifications settings feel like they haven’t been updated since they were introduced. The resulting notification system (especially Do Not Disturb and the vibrate physical switch) feels like a toy.
- ghaff 8y agoI get what you're saying but you're describing how user interfaces can get really complex and unusable. So, now, for an edge case that the vast majority of people have no need for, you would now have 4 levels of notification, with possibly different behaviors depending upon whether Do Not Disturb is on or not. Whereas many of us were already pretty much fine with turning off most notifications and using DND when appropriate for the others.
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- lev99 8y ago> pagerduty rings iOS has the option to whitelist DnD phone calls. I have Pager Duty on it, my boss, as well as a few trusted colleagues that know to only call if something _needs_ my immediate attention. In addition my family knows that my phone will always ring if you call me twice in a row, and that they can always do this if they need me. There are times when I do not want to pick up a phone calls. We use to just be able to pretend to not be at home, or to actually leave home to not receive calls. I want DnD to filter out the calls that I would previously screen with an answering machine when avoiding people.
- mikece 8y agoWould be nice if there was a long-press option that allowed me to either mute all notifications from an app for a given amount of time or mute all but the app in question for a given amount of time.
- noncoml 8y agoNew notifications are nice, but I would honestly prefer no new features and instead focus on bugs and performance.
- jclardy 8y agoI don't know if you missed it...but that is the focus of iOS 12. Performance is improved even on older devices and all devices that can install iOS 11 can install 12. There are barely any new features other than some small quality of life improvements, like these changes to notifications.
- noncoml 8y agoYes, I missed it indeed, that's great news! I wish I had asked for a million dollars in my post :D