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Absolutely loathe the new notifications and control center update. Just horrible!
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Really difficult to accept the font change on lock screen, not to mention that my time now show 08:00 instead of the regular 8:00. Agree on the very bright notification tabs. Should be also in dark background or selectable transparency. Hate the volume adjustment on the next screen . . . it just all feels very clumsy. I do not like the small space for writing iMassages . . . gosh, I think I will go back to the previous. I have to agree with those saying, that Steve would no accept this. Its just more steps to achieve what was easier before. I just don't like this direction Apple . . simplicity and elegance is missing.
[doublepost=1473841678][/doublepost]BTW, anybody has their time off centre on the iPad when in wide screen? What a . .
[doublepost=1473841678][/doublepost]BTW, anybody has their time off centre on the iPad when in wide screen? What a . .
I hate how large everything is and all the wasted space.
its also annoying that after all these years you still can't swipe a notification away, you've still got to press the little X and then clear it.
Face it, Android does notifications better. And their version of control centre is better!
its also annoying that after all these years you still can't swipe a notification away, you've still got to press the little X and then clear it.
Face it, Android does notifications better. And their version of control centre is better!
Agreed with everything above. Big step backward for me. I used to love Apple because the smaller font was much more efficient to see more on a screen. The big bold fonts, notification cards, fluff in Messages make it look like Apple is becoming more n more like Android these days. AND I HATE IT!
The only positive for me was the Home app, or specifically how it can be accessed from Control Center. Everything else is a step back, even though it seems more fluid overall, but oh so inconsistent.
The only positive for me was the Home app, or specifically how it can be accessed from Control Center. Everything else is a step back, even though it seems more fluid overall, but oh so inconsistent.
Agree with this completely. Not a fan of the new Bubble notifications as they are huge and the background also makes them less easy to read.
Apple seem to be hell bent on removing useful features at the moment too.
As far as I can tell you can only remove all notifications at once or remove them individually.
You used to be able to clear them by app which was brilliant.
After scanning them I used to clear those from Periscope, for example, as there is always loads of them. This then left the panel more readable to check the notifications from other apps.
It's crazy to remove this capability.
Here's another Design quirk:
When you access control center, you get a card that takes up half the screen. However, you can't do anything with the rest of the screen like interacting with the icons behind it.
So why only make the control center half size and lose the real estate?
Please don't tell me just for looks and to maintain the look of a card. You can still do that with a larger card. Even one that takes up 90-100% of the screen. And don't tell me it's just for reachability. That's a really poor reason.
If you made it even 30% larger you could fit music controls back on the first card.
When you access control center, you get a card that takes up half the screen. However, you can't do anything with the rest of the screen like interacting with the icons behind it.
So why only make the control center half size and lose the real estate?
Please don't tell me just for looks and to maintain the look of a card. You can still do that with a larger card. Even one that takes up 90-100% of the screen. And don't tell me it's just for reachability. That's a really poor reason.
If you made it even 30% larger you could fit music controls back on the first card.
Dude you are the best! Thank you so, so, so very much. I can now download this to all my devices without worry. Thanks again.
Actually one last question/concern... will this work with iPad as well, (where I don't have to click on the home button ever?) The home button is my biggest concern until they release an iPad with a haptic home button.
Kallum.
My only complaint is notifications not sorted by app. It's made it virtually useless to me and too much time to deal with notifications one at a time or ALL at once. Already turning off notifications on many apps and may not use the whole thing. It WAS one of my favorite features. Just don't get how this is seen as an improvement.
Yes, it's a two-step action device now, no more touch, and go. Such a bummer, waking up at night because the room lights up, because it's not a dark notification anymore, really bothers me as well. I tend to ignore people 90% more now by turning dnd on etc. It has so much white space, and the widgets show one thing, and never the frequently used ones.. throughout the whole beta period. Let the haters hate who tell us we dont like the changes. You like it/ Fine! Enjoy them. I just really don't like this one bit at the moment.
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I don't understand, from a UI logic point of view, why touches on a slider control would ever be interpreted as swiping. I'm very surprised they missed this obvious bug in beta.
And replies that auto-brightness works great for you are really not helpful.
Thanks to gp101 for this...
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Home Button -> Rest Finger to Open
Would sort that issue
Don't worry, you can still unlock without ever pressing down the Home button. Just enable "rest finger to unlock" in Settings-General-Accessibility-Home button. Then it's just as you described - press the Power button and rest finger on Home without pressing it.
Well, there are chances of that, but it doesn't add clutter.
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Well, it is mainly for reachability purposes.
I'm not a big fan, either. I've noticed odd, inconsistent behavior with the notifications - when swiping down, sometimes I can click a notification and have it take me into the app/action, but sometimes clicking it doesn't work. Sometimes I have to 3D touch into it, which I don't want to do every time.
As a side note, my calendar has birthdays set up, and has always shown birthdays on the main notification/today screen. See attached; looks like that.
However, on iOS 10, it no longer shows anything there, even though I had both "Up Next" and "Calendar" shown - it says "No events" under Calendar. Am I doing anything wrong?
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As a side note, my calendar has birthdays set up, and has always shown birthdays on the main notification/today screen. See attached; looks like that.
However, on iOS 10, it no longer shows anything there, even though I had both "Up Next" and "Calendar" shown - it says "No events" under Calendar. Am I doing anything wrong?
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Is there a way to shrink the size of the notifications? I can turn off preview for the lock screen to keep the mail notifications small. But when I look at the unlocked version of notification center (pull down from home screen) it shows almost the full email in each notification.
Is there a way to turn this off to have them be compact? I have previews turned off everywhere.
Is there a way to turn this off to have them be compact? I have previews turned off everywhere.
I actually made the font size system wide smaller to try and combat this. The bubbles are huge.
Then you need to adjust it. If you need help doing so, I'd be happy to help. Say something in this thread, or PM me.
This is the notification center pulldown from the top of the screen after the phone is unlocked. It resized all of them to include a ton of extra info even though I just want previews.
I don't have the mail widget enabled.
Thank you, but I do know how to adjust it. I'm 55, though, and I need it to be brighter than it thinks it should be for the surrounding light.
Hey guys, please send your feedback to Apple about this at this site https://www.apple.com/feedback/ and hopefully they'll listen.
Try re-calibrating it essentially: http://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...fix-your-phones-brightness-settings-15839497/
One more odd thing, when I get banner notifications while the phone is unlocked I can't swipe up and dismiss them quickly. In iOS9 you could just swipe up and they would go away, now you have to wait until they are gone. Not a big deal but when they take up so much screen space, it's sort of annoying. Am I missing something?