All of the Changes to Notifications in iOS 12

[HarryDevlin]

Did ios12 add separate volume controls for ringtones and notifications?

Sometimes you want your ringtone very low, but your notifications higher. The way I've worked around this, with the advice of Apple, is to create a very low volume ring tone and then turn the combined volume control high enough to hear notifications but the ringer is still low volume. They said that this is a common question that they receive and that the iOS team knows about this issue.

Android has had separate volume sliders for calls and notifications for a long time.

 

[Mad.Whack]

Did ios12 add separate volume controls for ringtones and notifications?

Sometimes you want your ringtone very low, but your notifications higher. The way I've worked around this, with the advice of Apple, is to create a very low volume ring tone and then turn the combined volume control high enough to hear notifications but the ringer is still low volume. They said that this is a common question that they receive and that the iOS team knows about this issue.

Android has had separate volume sliders for calls and notifications for a long time.

As far back as I remember ios has had much better volume controls than android. I've been using smartwatches since the beginning and I want ALL sounds muted except for music (media).

On Android this used to be impossible; media and apps noise were under the same soundbar (this was fixed recently).
On ios it has always worked flawlessly.

This is one of the few areas ios has had it right from the get go imo.

 

[liberte1776]

Will somebody please tell me why the heck Mojave does not ALSO group notifications?!

 

[DrumApple]

Grouped notifications are much better, but still don't like the overall large window design. Should be able to turn on a compact mode where notifications don't take as much screen real estate.

 

[jonnysods]

Don't think this is a beta - both my i-thingies prompted me to update this morning.

It's not out officially yet you may have signed up and not known it!

 

[HarryDevlin]

As far back as I remember ios has had much better volume controls than android. I've been using smartwatches since the beginning and I want ALL sounds muted except for music (media).

On Android this used to be impossible; media and apps noise were under the same soundbar (this was fixed recently).
On ios it has always worked flawlessly.

This is one of the few areas ios has had it right from the get go imo.

You can mute all sounds on Android, but sometimes you want calls muted (or a low volume ringer) and notifications louder. There are good reason for this, just because YOU want ALL sounds muted, doesn't mean that others want something different. You may not realize that the world does not revolve around YOU.

Amazing that iOS doesn't have this basic capability of setting volumes individually. Perhaps there is a patent issue that prevents them from doing so. If the Genius bar in just ONE store says that this is a common question you can bet that there are a LOT of people wanting this capability added. What's the old saying: "If one customer complains, one hundred others have the same issue but are silent and just don’t ever come back."

 

[Black Belt]

Waitaminute. What is Glucose Monitor? Is that a new Apple watch capability? Because that app with medical device monitoring does not exist in the App store.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Waitaminute. What is Glucose Monitor? Is that a new Apple watch capability? Because that app with device monitoring does not exist in the App store.

I thought about that. Maybe it will be a new feature of the next Apple Watch?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Waitaminute. What is Glucose Monitor? Is that a new Apple watch capability? Because that app with medical device monitoring does not exist in the App store.

That picture is from an app that is already in the iOS store. It isn't a hint about a new upcoming feature with the Apple Watch.

 

[GermanSuplex]

The announcements are always great, but recently they announce features that takes months after the initial iOS releases come out, and then they are littered with mundane bugs like album art not displaying in the music app and things like that. Things that are the most basic functions that never had issues in even the first iOS version 11 years ago seem to stop working and take months to get fixed, sometimes years.

 

[Aston441]

doesn’t need a new device for iOS 12 the beta right now is amazing on my old devices iPhone iPad it’s a stability fix for the damages done by iOS 11

The iOS 11 betas seemed great.

The release 11 was A DISASTER, and as many a lawsuit have been filed for: probably with intentional slowing of old devices, and intentional battery life destruction on old devices.

Who knows what trickery and deception Apple has lurking in Release 12.

 

[pipis2010]

First coffee.
Did you update? Read somewhere that iOS 11.4 was worse considering battery life and such.
Don’t know if it’s true.

I am on a 6s+ and the battery is a bit worse with 11.4, thought I was the only one...
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Did ios12 add separate volume controls for ringtones and notifications?

Sometimes you want your ringtone very low, but your notifications higher. The way I've worked around this, with the advice of Apple, is to create a very low volume ring tone and then turn the combined volume control high enough to hear notifications but the ringer is still low volume. They said that this is a common question that they receive and that the iOS team knows about this issue.

Android has had separate volume sliders for calls and notifications for a long time.

And yet they don’t do anything to implement it for so many years. It also drives me crazy to have a single volume slider for everything

 

[MobiusStrip]

Did they fix the most embarrassing and ridiculous defect: the lack of audible notifications for MISSED CALLS?

How stupid can Apple be?

 

[GoodWheaties]

Click one message, press Cmd-A to select all, then press the Delete key.

Or you can click one message, hold Shift, and click another message to select all messages in between.

Sometimes I think half of all Mac users have never used Command or Option. It opens up a whole new world of capabilities and brings..... immeasurable power to all!!!!! Ok I got carried away, but it’s incredible what is hidden away behind those keys sometimes. People really should learn to use them more often.

 

[Suckfest 9001]

Did they fix the most embarrassing and ridiculous defect: the lack of audible notifications for MISSED CALLS?

How stupid can Apple be?

So after the phone couldn't get your attention by playing a loud constant notification + vibrating for like 30 seconds, you expect a little blip right after to get the job done? Or are you just complaining for the sake of complaining and probably typed out that embarrassing attempt at criticism using some Korean Android device?

Gonna go with column b, fight me

 

[RogerWilco]

And what continuous/real-time glucose monitor is actually available for iOS? Oh, there is only one product. Is it practical? Not really, but Apple PR has to keep the iOS medical monitoring fairy-tale alive in the investment community. If only Theranos was this clever...

 

[jonblatho]

I would argue that they don't design iOS that way specifically *because* they care about the user experience.

Yeah, because the user experience with notifications—dozens of white bubbles from the past week in a scrolling list—was just brilliant unless you, well, went through and switched dozens of toggles.
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And what continuous/real-time glucose monitor is actually available for iOS? Oh, there is only one product. Is it practical? Not really, but Apple PR has to keep the iOS medical monitoring fairy-tale alive in the investment community. If only Theranos was this clever...

It’s almost like it can be used for things other than health

 

[ROGmaster]

If I oook at my phone, odds are I have a new notification. I don’t need a tacky led to tell me what I know. I guess it is useful for people who only play candy crush on their device, using it for nothing else, and want to know when their lives are reset.

The notification led can be customized to work only with the apps you want so it will light up only when you miss a phone call or a SMS for example.
Maybe you should inform yourself a little before generally insulting people that care for the notification led.

 

[Jaybee75]

Maybe we'll get a freaking notification LED so I don't have to leave my freaking screen on 24/7.

You mean something like that:
https://www.imore.com/how-to-turn-on-led-notification-light-iphone

j.

 

[Drogba11]

How about the ability to delete all mail? It makes no sense there is no way to select all email messages and delete. Who in Apple thinks it is efficient to delete one by one. Beyone annoying, mindboggling and stupid.

The same person who designs mail must be in charge of the apple music layout and settings.

Delete all mail as in your entire mailbox? I don't know anyone would want to do that - Why even have an email account if you want to delete all of the mail from it?

You can send a mail to the trash by 3D touching the notification and sending to trash or go into the Inbox, click on edit on the top right, select multiple emails and send them to the trash.

 

[DDustiNN]

so you can interact with notifications in new ways, doing more on the Lock screen without having to open up your iPhone.

I will never understand this. At what point does a “lock” screen become pointless?

 

[Aston441]

You mean something like that:
https://www.imore.com/how-to-turn-on-led-notification-light-iphone

j.

Only flashes once or twice. Essentially useless. And rediculously bright and annoying.

 

[Black Belt]

That picture is from an app that is already in the iOS store. It isn't a hint about a new upcoming feature with the Apple Watch.

That app couldn't do any of these notifications if you bothered to read my post.

 

[twennywonn]

Hopefully, Nest can somehow have just smoke and carbon monoxide alerts approved for critical alerts.

 

[markdes]

One user experience that is not addressed is for the first time a user of an app using iOS12. Today, when a user enters an app and that app will send push notifications, they would see an iOS opt-in popup. With iOS 12 will they not see that, meaning they are automatically opted in and then can select to opt-out after receiving the first notification?