Pull to Clear [Concept]

We need something that's for sure, and I think you're on the right track with a gesture, but my only worry is that it'd be inconsistent with pull to refresh. When in mail, it'd refresh, when in notifications all would be cleared; not a good thing to lose some important notifications because you've been pulling to refresh (emerging as a standard control) for many apps.

Maybe to take your concept and flip it, you could "push to clear". Once you've scrolled to the bottom. You need to make an additional push up with your finger to evoke the clear. This would work exactly like pull to refresh does so accidentally doing it would be difficult. Upon release, all items are cleared.

Just my 2 cents.

 

I second that, they gotta make an X at the top and when you press on it, it says are you sure you want to delete all notifications, because a simple refresh, that might happen by accident or something

 

Seems like a bad idea to use the same gesture as refreshing—getting new content—to clear all your notifications. Especially when you already pull the notification centre down with a swipe from the top of the screen.

I’d say that if anything were to be introduced, it should be the standard horizontal swipe to delete.

Then again, if this is a frequent problem for you, you may want to reconsider what apps you are allowing, and how you are using notifications.

 

Maybe if Apple works out how Pull to Refresh should work then they can do something like this. Apple had how many years of Apps using pull to refresh on their own and they still mess it up?

pist Apple - Pull to refresh works on the release, not the pull.

 

Probably the worst idea ever. Right up there with "click refresh to delete everything."

 

You should be able to just swipe away notifications.

 

I can't help thinking this implementation for refreshing and clearing is just copying Tweetie/Twitter for iOS.

 

Feels like ClearLockNotifications.