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iOS 5 lock screen calendar notifications

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mrochester

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Hi all

Does anyone know how many calendar notifications you can have on the iOS 5 lock screen? My other half currently has an Android phone and says he couldn't live without the ability to see his next 5 or 6 appointments at a glance (no matter how far in advance they are). Can anyone tell me if it's possible to have these 5 or 6 next appointments show permanently on the iOS 5 lock screen?

Many thanks

M.
 
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mrochester said:
Hi all

Does anyone know how many calendar notifications you can have on the iOS 5 lock screen? My other half currently has an Android phone and says he could live without the ability to see his next 5 or 6 appointments at a glance (no matter how far in advance they are). Can anyone tell me if it's possible to have these 5 or 6 next appointments show permanently on the iOS 5 lock screen?

Many thanks

M.
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it's all within 2 days time afaik, i will test it and confirm, but currently, it shows my brothers birthday, tomorrow, and has done since yesterday
 
Nope. The Lockscreen is only for notifications you haven't seen. Once you unlock it and pull down the Notification Center it clears them all. You can have the NC show 1, 5 or 10 recent items. Doesn't help your other half much though.
 
iOS 5 is not out yet. For all you know Apple might include the feature when it's released.
 
Yeah I was actually pretty saddened by this. I was under the impression that the notification wouldn't go away until you opened the corresponding application. I'm the same as your other half.

There is, however, still hope. Have him jailbreak and install Lockinfo and he can have up to 8 weeks and 20 scrollable entries of upcoming calendar events displayed. I can't live without it which is the only reason I'm not using 5.0.
 

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lostprophet894 said:
Yeah I was actually pretty saddened by this. I was under the impression that the notification wouldn't go away until you opened the corresponding application. I'm the same as your other half.

There is, however, still hope. Have him jailbreak and install Lockinfo and you can have up to 8 weeks of upcoming calendar events displayed. I can't live without it which is the only reason I'm not using 5.0.
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Yeah there's always jailbreaking, but ideally I'd like him to be able to achieve what he wants without having to resort to that.
 
mrochester said:
Yeah there's always jailbreaking, but ideally I'd like him to be able to achieve what he wants without having to resort to that.
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Me too, but such is life.

Crazy to think about how much he's missing out on if that's the one thing stopping him.
 
lostprophet894 said:
Me too, but such is life.

Crazy to think about how much he's missing out on if that's the one thing stopping him.
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Yeah, but he has made it quite clear that it is the most important feature for him to have, so it has to be spot on.
 
QuarterSwede said:
Nope. The Lockscreen is only for notifications you haven't seen. Once you unlock it and pull down the Notification Center it clears them all. You can have the NC show 1, 5 or 10 recent items. Doesn't help your other half much though.
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yea sorry, meant notification centre lol. long day. But the Calender items stay there until they expire,you can't remove them.
 
shandyman said:
yea sorry, meant notification centre lol. long day. But the Calender items stay there until they expire,you can't remove them.
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Is that the same for everything? Like sports alerts and texts? There will dissapea when You click them?
 
The Game 161 said:
Is that the same for everything? Like sports alerts and texts? There will dissapea when You click them?
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on the lock screen, once you unlock, they disappear from lock screen and are just in the notification centre.

when you select somehthing in the notification centre, that notification will go as pressin it takes you to the app to deal with it. so say you press a text to read it fully and reply, it will take you to the text message with keyboard up to reply, then it will clear from the notification centre as you have dealt with it.
 
The constant nagging of upcoming appointments (and iCloud contact birthdays) on the lockscreen would be sweet. That and custom text tones are the only features I miss from my old Windows phone from 2007 that iPhones don't do (yet).
 
The Norman said:
The constant nagging of upcoming appointments (and iCloud contact birthdays) on the lockscreen would be sweet. That and custom text tones are the only features I miss from my old Windows phone from 2007 that iPhones don't do (yet).
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from what we see in iOS5, looks like we are getting custom SMS and email tones
 
whsbuss said:
Wishful thinking
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It's not wishful thinking, looking at the menu, it's now more like the ringtone one. We have a 'buy more tones' button. It looks very much like its there but we just need an iTunes update to enable us to copy custom tones to the device, which we should get on the launch of iOS 5
 
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