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There's room for improvement in Android's notification system. I get serious notification fatigue with Android. I see that there are 5 or 6 tiny indistinguishab
by jsz0 16y ago
There's room for improvement in Android's notification system. I get serious notification fatigue with Android. I see that there are 5 or 6 tiny indistinguishable icons up there but I have to pull down the tray to get any useful information. In this sense it's more like an Inbox than a notification system to me. It also treats all notifications equally. To me a missed phone call is a lot more important than application updates. I would prefer to get the higher priority notifications (voicemail, SMS, etc) pushed at me more aggressively. Ideally show them on the lock screen like WebOS does so you don't have to unlock the device and goto the notification tray to check manually. There's also the problem of third party apps using the notification tray for SPAM which I do not care for one bit.
- seabee 16y agoHTC Sense shows missed call & SMS notifications on the lock screen. I've found it to be an ideal notification experience, personally. Spam is a problem best solved by removing the offending app. It's not like they can't do worse things to your phone (unless you're one of the few who pay attention to that permissions screen).
- thwarted 16y agoI would prefer to get the higher priority notifications (voicemail, SMS, etc) pushed at me more aggressively. Your example "higher priority" notifications are two that I care the least about. I rarely use my phone for actually talking to people, and I don't listen to voicemail, so those I don't care about. I do care that I missed a call however -- who it was that called is much more important than the message they left. I also get so many text messages, they need to be ranked in importance by who sent it, not that it's a text message. But setting up priorities based on sender is a lot of work, so I wouldn't do it. Maybe if it worked like gmail's priority inbox.