This. It drives me up the wall. My ipad is forever cluttered with notifications for stuff that I have already seen and checked, because somehow iOS is incapable of clearing these notifications, god knows why. If I have a new discord notification on my android phone, and then open discord on my pc, that notification disappears. Why can't it work on iOS too???
Notifications are an interesting case because his logical model doesn’t match the system’s (badges numbers are not just a notification counter - for example, my newsreader & podcast app badge unread items), or which apps he’s using which don’t sync notification state across devices as all of the Apple apps and most mainstream ones do, but also what I think of as a war of attrition trying to have the UI cope with abusive app developers. The App Store ToS disallows marketing spam but if the app is pushing that line, you really should disable notifications or, better, delete it and leave a negative review — trying to filter spam is a losing game when you’re doing it part-time and the developers has a team trying to exploit your attention.
The decision was made for apple watch and airpods to keep the connection I think.
To turn Bluetooth really off, one has to go to settings > Bluetooth, then toggle.
2) Since I imagine you'd like an example anyway - because I want to prevent my device from automatically connecting to headphones/speakers/cars that it has been paired to in the past.
It is true that clearing a notification may not clear the app badge, but that's because there's a distinction between clearing and dismissing notifications. To dismiss a notification, you have to view it, either by pulling down the notification banner as it comes in, or long pressing; that peeks at the notification, and if you pull down on it again, it's dismissed. Otherwise, if you clear the notification, it's assumed that you have not viewed it (since you can bulk clear and not have to interact with every notification individually). This may not be straightforward at first, but at least I prefer that it fails safe for the user, and they don't miss a notification they accidentally swiped away. I hear notifications on iOS 15 are coming closer to the Android experience, if that helps.
On the subject of getting to the settings quicker, at least on iOS 15 you can get to Spotlight search faster.
Regarding auto-correct, it's the first thing I turn off and only keep predictive text, but at least when you do have it on, you get a visual cue that the word has been changed with the word flashing. It would be better if it underlined the word like it does for when it's not sure whether it chose the correct word during dictation.
I would've expected something more systemically wrong (of which I'm sure there are at least a few) referred to in the article than just a few UI/UX quirks.
iOS 15 is introducing some welcome changes that I wouldn't mind Android copying in the future, such as notification summaries, but that does little to fix the core issues of iOS notification management.
I pretty aggressively manage notifications on my phone. And will selectively disable either the entire thing or the little red bubble depending on their use case.
Also you can clear individual notifications by selecting them or swiping them off. Or you can en-mass delete them, theres an X at the top right of the main banner
For example:
By default most are off. I really dont need notifications from say...Pandora or Zoom or Youtube.
For things that i check, work email, phone calls, texts or chat apps or even TOTP/push like DUO I allow the banners and badges but generally disable sounds.
My kids daycare app that is largely required for basic communication, absolutely abuses the communication feature. Every time a picture is posted you get one, and if they post say...10 you get 10. They ONLY get the bubble, so i know theres something i should check.
This makes it look like theres more work than I put into as well. In general i deny notifications. For those that I want it I allow them and if they abuse it, i simply trim down what is bothering it. Its actually a pretty solid system imho.
Maybe something to do with the Rounded Rectangle patent?
The author clearly used the fact most people never click on a link to read it to their advantage to get an incredibly meh blog post to the front.
While I am bothered by the latest privacy issues with iOS, I also realize that Android is terrible at privacy. Right now there is no mainstream option with good privacy.
