iPhone Top Bar not useless after all

Well known feature but thanks for pointing it out.

(not being sarcastic)

 

Yeah, Apple's helpful tips mention it. Very convenient feature.

 

I guess "Hold Home button till Voice panel appears" would be new as well?

 

you can also tap the title banners in some apps to go to home page try it on facebook for example

 

I Didn't Know

you had your iphone for a couple of months!!

 

Well known feature.

Still, wouldn't having notifications on the top bar be more useful than just popping the page back to the top? IDK, maybe that's just me.

LockInfo ftw. It adds an Android-like notification panel which slides down.

 

There's a lot of little known features like this, it's always fun to discover these. I think we have a thread floating around in here that is full of them - let me see if I can dig it up. It's probably stickied.

Edit:

Yup, here it is: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=944425. Check it out!

 

great feature,

I find myself clicking on the top bar in windows to unsuccessfully do the same thing.

 

It's a shame there isn't some kind of shortcut to scroll to the bottom.

 

I thought about this quite often.

 

The first time I ever tried an Android phone, my first impression was "Damn, Androids have better top bar than my iPhone".

In my opinion, that's the only feature that I do like about the Android. But then again if I think about it, you're absolutely right. I don't want notifications bugging me all the time. I think adding a notification bar on top will just clutter up the iPhone and might even slow down the older models.

I like the Apple's way of doing this. It works for me too.


Oh and I knew about the scrolling feature. I just wished there was a shortcut to scroll to the bottom of the page. It would save a lot of time for me.

 

hmmm
http://www.apple.com/iphone/tips/

 

You dont like notifications bugging you so you opt for the ones that pop up and stop whatever you are doing versus the ones that appear on the top bar. Makes sense I guess.

 

You can have just that on an iPhone. Just jailbreak it and then install Notifier+.

 

I didn't know this^, but I knew about the mentioned scrolling feature...
since you didn't know about it then I'm gonna tell you a more 'obscure' one: You can do a screenshot (saves it in the photos roll) if you press the wake and home button at the same time...

 

I have push notification enabled but for only Google Voice. That's it. I do my texting through that so I don't get pop ups from my messages even, except for rare ocassions. I don't want to have to go unlock the phone and pull open the top bar just to view I got a message.

Like I said, I prefer the iPhone's way of doing things.

 

Not trying to flame you here- just want to clear up your misconceptions about Android.

You can put all the app icons on the homescreens in Android like iOS, if you want. Android does not, despite what you may think, force you to use widgets. Many third-party launchers can also enable you to place any application in the bottom bar a la iOS.

The search widget can, in addition to searching the Web, perform system searches (SMS, email, apps etc).

I do realize that you prefer iOS, and that's nice. Some of your misconceptions really bug me though, and I hope that this post clears it up for you

 

If you want to disable notification, you can do it on both devices, but if you need them, Android's implementation is objectively less intrusive (for the simple fact that it doesn't force you to stop doing whatever you're doing just to close notification dialog).

 

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Um I'm pretty sure this is a well documented feature.