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Anybody know when you get an email alert how much of the message do you get when it comes up on the notification center?
 
the sender, the subject, and what looks like a sentence or two

ios5_notification_center_.jpg
 
I tried an earlier beta and was annoyed you couldn't be alerted you have an email without having the email displayed on the screen. You can have message alerts appear on the lockscreen with just the sender and no message info... shame you can't do this with emails or has that been changed?
 
TheOriginalKi said:
I tried an earlier beta and was annoyed you couldn't be alerted you have an email without having the email displayed on the screen. You can have message alerts appear on the lockscreen with just the sender and no message info... shame you can't do this with emails or has that been changed?
In iOS5 betas you can turn off previews, so non of the message contents show up. Lots of new options in General -> Notifications.

Notification center is irrelevant IMO, i someone has bypassed your passcode, hy could just open the mail app itself if they wanted.
 
In iOS5 betas you can turn off previews, so non of the message contents show up. Lots of new options in General -> Notifications.

Notification center is irrelevant IMO, i someone has bypassed your passcode, hy could just open the mail app itself if they wanted.

Sweet! :D

What about the option to view the photo roll from the lock screen (via the camera), without unlocking? I'm not too keen on people being able to pick my phone up off my desk or if lost and being able to view my pictures without unlocking.
 
In iOS5 betas you can turn off previews, so non of the message contents show up. Lots of new options in General -> Notifications.

Notification center is irrelevant IMO, i someone has bypassed your passcode, hy could just open the mail app itself if they wanted.

How could they bypass my passcode without knowing it? I'm talking casual people here, not some hacker.
 
What he's saying is that if someone has access to the Notification Center there is no point in disabling previews since he has access to Mail too.

That is not completely true though, since we are also talking about the notifications, not only the Center itself.
 
Sweet! :D

What about the option to view the photo roll from the lock screen (via the camera), without unlocking? I'm not too keen on people being able to pick my phone up off my desk or if lost and being able to view my pictures without unlocking.
There is no such option. It's even demoed in the keynote, camera app from lockscreen shows blank camera roll.

Then only shows pictures taken during that lockscreen photo session.
 
What he's saying is that if someone has access to the Notification Center there is no point in disabling previews since he has access to Mail too.

That is not completely true though, since we are also talking about the notifications, not only the Center itself.
Several options.

In General -> Nofitications -> Mail.app

Notification Center ON/OFF
Show 1/5/10 Unread items

Alert Style: none/banner/old-school ios4 alert

Badge App Icon ON/OFF - I think this toggle use of graphical app icon in banners and notifications?

Show Preview ON/OFF - Kills the preview text for both notifications and lock screen, but not notification center (see above for that)

View in Lockscreen ON/OFF

Fully customizable.
 
Menel said:
Several options.

In General -> Nofitications -> Mail.app

Notification Center ON/OFF
Show 1/5/10 Unread items

Alert Style: none/banner/old-school ios4 alert

Badge App Icon ON/OFF - I think this toggle use of graphical app icon in banners and notifications?

Show Preview ON/OFF - Kills the preview text for both notifications and lock screen, but not notification center (see above for that)

View in Lockscreen ON/OFF

Fully customizable.

 
What he's saying is that if someone has access to the Notification Center there is no point in disabling previews since he has access to Mail too.

That is not completely true though, since we are also talking about the notifications, not only the Center itself.

Ah I see. Sorry I should have said I was talking about the lockscreen, not the pull down.
 
There is no such option. It's even demoed in the keynote, camera app from lockscreen shows blank camera roll.

Then only shows pictures taken during that lockscreen photo session.

That makes sense. That's all my worries gone then. I can't wait for GM.
 
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