Quick Reply Notifications [Concept]

[Nathan20]

The other day i posted a concept for messages share sheets: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1528817/

Following on from that here is a concept for replying quickly to notifications from anywhere. The example attached is with iMessage but could be accessed and used by 3rd party apps.

 

[stevelam]

so basically you just made a worse version of bitesms.

 

[Nathan20]

so basically you just made a worse version of bitesms.

An alternative...

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

Looks good to me, although I'd prefer if the quick-reply sheet was more like the actual Messages window - allowing you to see previous messages and see your reply show up in the window.

 

[King Bowser]

so basically you just made a worse version of bitesms.

lmao sorry this is funny to me.

 

[MasterHowl]

Nice

Although I'd much prefer it if swiping down took you to the normal notification centre, then there was a little "reply" icon next to the text message in notification centre, which brought up a share-sheet-like reply box.

Good work though

 

[Nathan20]

Nice

Although I'd much prefer it if swiping down took you to the normal notification centre, then there was a little "reply" icon next to the text message in notification centre, which brought up a share-sheet-like reply box.

Good work though

yeah, thats actually a great idea

 

[jinkoh]

Won't happen, but you can keep wishing : )

 

[MacOG728893]

Can you tell me what's so slow about the current setup? If you see the notification and click it once, it will take you immediately to where you can start typing a message.

The only time I can see anything like this being useful is if there were multiple text messages in your notification center and you could quick reply to each one, that might be useful. But even then, there's almost no point.

 

[Beeplance]

Can you tell me what's so slow about the current setup? If you see the notification and click it once, it will take you immediately to where you can start typing a message.

The only time I can see anything like this being useful is if there were multiple text messages in your notification center and you could quick reply to each one, that might be useful. But even then, there's almost no point.

People want to reply to the message without leaving the current app/game they're in. After the reply, they can resume it immediately without double-tapping the home button, choosing the app then wait for it to resume.

 

[MacOG728893]

Haha. You make it sound so difficult when put like that. I see your reasoning, but saving myself two seconds isn't really that big of a deal for me.

Clicking the home button twice really doesn't bother me. Now, if they come up with a better way to multitask or better way of intiating multitasking, then I might have some interest in that.

 

[pear21]

Pretty good idea, I like it alot, I used an android for a little bit and I liked this feature so that way I could remain in my apps.

 

[Small White Car]

People want to reply to the message without leaving the current app/game they're in. After the reply, they can resume it immediately without double-tapping the home button, choosing the app then wait for it to resume.

What this says to me is that we need:

A) A faster animation to get into the message app when you tap the notification.

B) A back button in the message app to go back to the app you were in before.

C) An API that allows apps to understand that the message app is special and should not be considered a reason to stop of shut down whatever its doing.


I'd rather attack the actual problems then invent multiple ways to do the same thing (a tap does this! a swipe does this! they're almost the same, but slightly different!) That just leads to confusion.