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While we're on the subject, other Apple things that deserve an app: Dashboard/status - I have a smart lock, and they have their own app, where all it really d

by tikkun 4y ago

While we're on the subject, other Apple things that deserve an app: Dashboard/status - I have a smart lock, and they have their own app, where all it really does is show the current status of the lock and let me toggle it. There are quite a few apps like this. It'd be nice if they could all be condensed into a dashboard/status app that could just tweak values and show current status. Apple Home attempts to do some of this. Notifications - It'd be nice if there was a notifications app, and I could set most of my apps to deliver their notifications to that app, instead of me directly. This would reduce notification overload and distraction.

Spivak 4y ago
Isn't that first one Home/iHome/HomeKit whatever you wanna call it? If your lock doesn't support HomeKit there's a good chance Homebridge does.
WorldMaker 4y ago
Have you tried Notification Summaries yet? That's sort of like a "deliver notifications to a separate app". In the notifications settings you create at least one Scheduled Notification Summary. I've currently got ones setup roughly every four hours during "core daylight hours" for me, plus I enable the "preview option" to read the next summary early if I need to. Then you add as many apps as you want to the Notification Summaries. All of the notifications for those apps during each time period get rolled up into a single Summary object in your notifications, only give a notification alert once for the entire group of them (at the scheduled time), and don't cause Watch notifications (if that's a distraction/overload you especially juggle as I do). At this point I've even got all my email notifications going into Summaries (which is why I turned on the preview for the next summary if I feel like I need a quick glance at recent email subject lines without opening my email app up). It is such a useful tool and not a lot of iOS users discover it in the settings. May also be an indicator that it could use its own app because discovery in the Settings app itself is hard. Maybe the Settings app is just doing too many things now and needs some sort of reorg or something.

by tikkun 4y ago

Spivak 4y ago

Isn't that first one Home/iHome/HomeKit whatever you wanna call it? If your lock doesn't support HomeKit there's a good chance Homebridge does.

WorldMaker 4y ago

Have you tried Notification Summaries yet? That's sort of like a "deliver notifications to a separate app". In the notifications settings you create at least one Scheduled Notification Summary. I've currently got ones setup roughly every four hours during "core daylight hours" for me, plus I enable the "preview option" to read the next summary early if I need to. Then you add as many apps as you want to the Notification Summaries. All of the notifications for those apps during each time period get rolled up into a single Summary object in your notifications, only give a notification alert once for the entire group of them (at the scheduled time), and don't cause Watch notifications (if that's a distraction/overload you especially juggle as I do). At this point I've even got all my email notifications going into Summaries (which is why I turned on the preview for the next summary if I feel like I need a quick glance at recent email subject lines without opening my email app up). It is such a useful tool and not a lot of iOS users discover it in the settings. May also be an indicator that it could use its own app because discovery in the Settings app itself is hard. Maybe the Settings app is just doing too many things now and needs some sort of reorg or something.