What about air drop? Are they secretly taking that away from us too? I’m not so sure I’ll update again given apples latest move toward totalitarianism.
In a small but significant change to the way the Notification Center works in the latest iOS 16.2 beta, older notifications are now shown by default without having to swipe up.
In the current release as well as earlier versions of iOS 16, users do not automatically see older notifications in the Notification Center like they did in iOS 15, and instead must manually swipe up from the middle to reveal them, if there are any.
In other words, if a new notification is received and the user unlocks and then locks their iPhone without interacting with it, iOS treats it as an old notification and sends it to the Notification Center where it is hidden, which some users say often results in important notifications being missed.
Note that in iOS 16.2 beta 4, the Lock Screen still hides older notifications unless the user swipes up from the middle of the screen. The change to showing older notifications by default only applies to Notification Center, which can be pulled down with a swipe down from the top of the screen when the iPhone has been unlocked.
Whether or not the change will make it into the official release of iOS 16.2, due later this month, is unknown, but if it does, many users will welcome the new behavior as an improvement to the way iOS deals with older notifications.
Article Link: PSA: Older Notifications No Longer Hidden in Notification Center in iOS 16.2 Beta 4
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PSA: Older Notifications No Longer Hidden in Notification Center in iOS 16.2 Beta 4
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About time. Should have been an option.
Agreed. The “current” way is an abomination. I miss so many notifications.
Really hope it will hit the final version.
Glad to see MacRumors talks about this subject after so many complains on the forum and on on other medias, it will help attract attention. I met a number of people who just totally ignores that they have "hidden notifications" with so many missed calls and messages!
Glad to see MacRumors talks about this subject after so many complains on the forum and on on other medias, it will help attract attention. I met a number of people who just totally ignores that they have "hidden notifications" with so many missed calls and messages!
Thank god. Who thought this was a good idea in the first place? Sometimes I think they intentionally make their software worse just so they can eventually push an update to “improve” it by reverting things back to how they were in the first place.
Great! Coming from Android, I never understood why I had to go to the notification center then swipe back up again to see everything. Welcome change.
In a small but significant change to the way the Notification Center works in the latest iOS 16.2 beta, older notifications are now shown by default without having to swipe up.
In the current release as well as earlier versions of iOS 16, users do not automatically see older notifications in the Notification Center like they did in iOS 15, and instead must manually swipe up from the middle to reveal them, if there are any.
In other words, if a new notification is received and the user unlocks and then locks their iPhone without interacting with it, iOS treats it as an old notification and sends it to the Notification Center where it is hidden, which some users say often results in important notifications being missed.
Note that in iOS 16.2 beta 4, the Lock Screen still hides older notifications unless the user swipes up from the middle of the screen. The change to showing older notifications by default only applies to Notification Center, which can be pulled down with a swipe down from the top of the screen when the iPhone has been unlocked.
Whether or not the change will make it into the official release of iOS 16.2, due later this month, is unknown, but if it does, many users will welcome the new behavior as an improvement to the way iOS deals with older notifications.
Article Link: PSA: Older Notifications No Longer Hidden in Notification Center in iOS 16.2 Beta 4
Nothing is changing with the Lock Screen, which the article even points out. This only affects the top swipe down from the Home Screen or when in an app.
Say I get a notification from a news app. I tap the notification and the app loads into a deep-link in the app. I start to read the article, but am unable to finish at that time. I get another notification from that same app later, and tap it. Now the app has deep-linked to that new article. How do I get back to the first article that I received the notification about? Unless the app provides a history, or some navigation to maintain that stack of deep-linked articles (some do, but not all), there's no easy way - I need to search the app and hope that I find the match.
That's one example of many, and each app has its own quirks.
So yeah, I do get the point of notifications --- but the way you use them may not be the way everyone uses them, and I'm unaware of a solution to the scenario I've outlined without involving some other workflow such as bookmarking in-some-way the article linked-to from the initial notification.
It's a big world. Not everyone does things the same way.
False. Notifications have a distinct and universally acceptable purpose, and wanting them to act like some kind of permanent index is a ridiculous idea.
It’s a mystery to me why Apple struggles so much with notifications on iOS. Every iOS version introduces a new approach with its own quirks.
This was one of those annoying, puzzling, Appley changes in the original iOS 16 release. Glad they’re changing it.
That is why I stay at ios15.7. I feel Notification Center in ios16 is too weird to handle. And the animation during swiping （to see old notifications) is too fast.
Glad I read the article, I was about to loose my mind over them walking this back until I realized they were only talking about Notification Center, and not the lock screen. 😂
So wait, the notifications will STILL not stay on the Lock Screen? That's the whole problem.
I feel like this change is the best of both worlds. Those of us who prefer the clean lock screen get to keep that, and people who use notification center get a more useful notification center. I literally only ever pull that thing down by accident, personally, but even still I can see how the behavior introduced to the lock screen in iOS16 wouldn't be super helpful in notification center.
Thanks for catching my error. I meant to type notification center instead of lock screen. I do like having both the notification center and lock screen less cluttered with less important notifications (which is why I've gone through settings to cut down on which notifications make it in there).
Yea please fix it on LOCKSCREEN
Now get rid of the stupid three dots at the top of my iPad!
I already liked the new behaviour; this is a regression to me.
