Notification Banner - how to keep it displayed

There isn't.

Apple needs at least a status bar icon indicating waiting notification. This guessing game is not gonna work.

I'm willing to bet at least 80% of iPhone users will accidentally find out about the drop notification bar and not actually realize it's a part of the os when they install iOS 5

The apps still have the little red circles and such after a notification comes in.

robjulo said:

I agree completely. A small unobtrusive icon in the corner would be suffecient.

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Unfortunately I filed a bug report (or feature request) for this very thing a few months ago during iOS5 beta 1. There were also many threads in the dev forums but Apple never responded.

A simple "!" in the status bar would do wonders for the notifications. Maybe it could slowly fade in and out if a new notification came in and you haven't pulled down notification center.

For me this is more of an issue on my iPad as I have it set to keep the screen awake for a long time, so I often put it down and don't see new notifications. On iPhone I am pretty much always using it if the screen is on.

I agree. If an alert comes in and I just happen to not be looking at my iPhone, I'll miss it.

Also, about the number above the icon... I'm not ALWAYS on the home screen. I may have the Music app open or something. Without anything telling me I have a notification, it could take me a while to respond back because I didn't know I had one.

At least with the intrusive way, I could just look at my screen to see a message awaiting my reply.

Just as the jailbreak app Notified did, there should be an option to display a status bar icon that denotes unread notifications are available. Hopefully in 5.1 we will see this!

i think thats the point of having ur notifications show up in the lock screen.
If ur using ur phone and u get a text message, the banner will disappear after a few seconds but if u havent pulled down notification center they will still show up on ur lock screen.

back on JB 4.2.1 or whatever it was I had statusnotifier which was great, had one for FB Email and IM as well as sms, if apple implimented this sort of idea that'd be awesome.

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U can also use the LED notification to help remind u about notifications

CosmoPilot said:

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U can also use the LED notification to help remind u about notifications

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That's a bright idea... pun intended.

Nah, the LED is way too bright. I tried this out last night... no thank you!

Richardgm said:

There isn't.

Apple needs at least a status bar icon indicating waiting notification. This guessing game is not gonna work.

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Then it would look too much like Android.

The Cat Empire said:

That's a bright idea... pun intended.

Nah, the LED is way too bright. I tried this out last night... no thank you!

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How long does it take for the LED light to go off after you get a notification? I've tried leaving my phone upside-down for about 5 mins after getting a text and no LED light went off. And yes it was locked with the screen off.

i'd be in favor of apple getting rid of the red number on app icons, completely, and just adding a little symbol in the corner near the battery icon like others have mentioned.