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ANDYMILLMAN

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Guys when I get an sms message through whilst I'm Using my phone I get the standard banner notification but I find I cannot do anything with it to initiate the quick reply function the only thing that happens is that it eventually launches the full messages app

What gesture do I use to initiate quick reply on the banner ?

Thanks
 
It freezes in whatever application you're in after you hit send?

Ah ok you edited your message, you need to change it from banner to alerts in the notification settings for messages.
 
ANDYMILLMAN said:
Guys when I get an sms message through whilst I'm Using my phone I get the standard banner notification but I find I cannot do anything with it to initiate the quick reply function the only thing that happens is that it eventually launches the full messages app

What gesture do I use to initiate quick reply on the banner ?

Thanks
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Pull down on the banner.
 
Armen said:
You may want to finish your sentence haha
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This site may want to make its mobile version a little more friendly with ios 8 then :)

Cursor bouncing around all over the show :p

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afsnyder said:
Pull down on the banner.
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Will try that again on my next message. I had 0 success with that method yesterday though weird.

So you can confirm that quick reply does indeed work with banners ?

the other post above suggest it will only work with the other type of notifications
 
When inside Apps (not locked)
Swipe from the top to mid-screen when the prompt pops up.

When device locked
Swipe right to left and choose "Reply".
 
You also have to ensure that you have set Messages notifications to show the preview.

If it's off then you can't quick reply.
 
CrEsTo said:
You also have to ensure that you have set Messages notifications to show the preview.

If it's off then you can't quick reply.
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I believe you can (I can, anyway), but it's not very useful if you don't know what the message says!
 
mirageboss said:
When inside Apps (not locked)
Swipe from the top to mid-screen when the prompt pops up.

When device locked
Swipe right to left and choose "Reply".
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Still not working on my device mate - how weird
message banner shows up - the bottom of the banner has the _ line on it like notification centre, but pulling down on it does absolutely nothing. The only thing I can do is click the banner to launch the messages app.
 
ANDYMILLMAN said:
Still not working on my device mate - how weird
message banner shows up - the bottom of the banner has the _ line on it like notification centre, but pulling down on it does absolutely nothing. The only thing I can do is click the banner to launch the messages app.
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I hate this too... It only ever works if you have show preview set to on, so that you can see the first line of the message, instead of it just saying "iMessage" etc.
(IE It doesn't work unless you could read the actual message without going onto the messages app itself)


Hopefully this will be fixed in an upcoming beta, because as you say you can't even pull down at all, and I don't like the idea of someone picking up my phone and being able to read my messages.
 
chumps52 said:
I hate this too... It only ever works if you have show preview set to on, so that you can see the first line of the message, instead of it just saying "iMessage" etc.
(IE It doesn't work unless you could read the actual message without going onto the messages app itself)


Hopefully this will be fixed in an upcoming beta, because as you say you can't even pull down at all, and I don't like the idea of someone picking up my phone and being able to read my messages.
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My preview was always set to on mate
A full reboot of my device has rectified the issue anyway - The old IT cliche "reboot" seems to have fixed it for me at least :)
 
ANDYMILLMAN said:
Still not working on my device mate - how weird
message banner shows up - the bottom of the banner has the _ line on it like notification centre, but pulling down on it does absolutely nothing. The only thing I can do is click the banner to launch the messages app.
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That's incredibly odd... Bug Report there you go! :p
 
chumps52 said:
Hopefully this will be fixed in an upcoming beta, because as you say you can't even pull down at all, and I don't like the idea of someone picking up my phone and being able to read my messages.
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I really doubt they even consider this a bug. If you don't want people picking up your phone and reading your messages then you can't use quick reply. Even if they did make it so that quick reply worked with preview off it would defeat the purpose, the person could slide the message down to read it, or swipe it to read it on the lock screen. If you were to do quick reply without actually seeing the message... well that's even less of a bug, you can't see what you are replying to.
 
WordMasterRice said:
I really doubt they even consider this a bug. If you don't want people picking up your phone and reading your messages then you can't use quick reply. Even if they did make it so that quick reply worked with preview off it would defeat the purpose, the person could slide the message down to read it, or swipe it to read it on the lock screen. If you were to do quick reply without actually seeing the message... well that's even less of a bug, you can't see what you are replying to.
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Try using iOS 7 with Previews off. Even then, when the phone is unlocked, you can pull the banner down to read the message in notification centre.

At the moment you have to push the banner back up, and then pull down the whole notification centre to be able to read it.


Fine if they turn it off on the lockscreen, but it should still be allowed when the phone is unlocked.
 
Yeah, 'no preview' worked much better before because you could drag down the notification to see the message. They need to allow quick reply with 'no preview', the drag down should reveal the message, it would be much more consistent with how it was before imo (with added reply feature obviously).

And yeah, personally I only have 'no preview' to prevent it being visible on the lock screen. More discrete options for lock screen / unlocked would work for me, too.
 
snappyfool said:
Yeah, 'no preview' worked much better before because you could drag down the notification to see the message. They need to allow quick reply with 'no preview', the drag down should reveal the message, it would be much more consistent with how it was before imo (with added reply feature obviously).

And yeah, personally I only have 'no preview' to prevent it being visible on the lock screen. More discrete options for lock screen / unlocked would work for me, too.
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Exactly, I liked how it revealed itself in iOS 7
 
chumps52 said:
Try using iOS 7 with Previews off. Even then, when the phone is unlocked, you can pull the banner down to read the message in notification centre.

At the moment you have to push the banner back up, and then pull down the whole notification centre to be able to read it.


Fine if they turn it off on the lockscreen, but it should still be allowed when the phone is unlocked.
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snappyfool said:
Yeah, 'no preview' worked much better before because you could drag down the notification to see the message. They need to allow quick reply with 'no preview', the drag down should reveal the message, it would be much more consistent with how it was before imo (with added reply feature obviously).

And yeah, personally I only have 'no preview' to prevent it being visible on the lock screen. More discrete options for lock screen / unlocked would work for me, too.
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I kind of found it a little disjointed as far as how that was set up in iOS 7. When you pull down any banner you simply bring down the notification center, not so much reveal anything in particular, it's just that the notification center itself didn't seem to respect (at least in my experience) the no preview option--for example, if you have previews turned off, get a banner notification without a preview, let it go away or swipe it away, and then later go to the notification center you'll see the preview there, despite the previews being turned off. Even the "show preview" setting itself says it should apply to notification center too, so perhaps this was some sort of oversight/bug of some sort.

iOS 8 banner notifications changed the behavior of the pull-down revealing notification center and simply made it work for quick reply type of purposes. Perhaps for things of this nature they should add a bit more to it where pulling down would reveal the message and the quick reply options that would apply to it.
 
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Even the "show preview" setting itself says it should apply to notification center too, so perhaps this was some sort of oversight/bug of some sort.
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Yeah that's interesting. On iOS 8 it doesn't mention notification center - so the behaviour now matches the label.

iOS 8 banner notifications changed the behavior of the pull-down revealing notification center and simply made it work for quick reply type of purposes. Perhaps for things of this nature they should add a bit more to it where pulling down would reveal the message and the quick reply options that would apply to it.
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Yeah.

BTW, in case anyone's interested, notifications that aren't actionable (i.e. all third party app notifications atm) behave the same as no preview message notifications.
 
Seems like this--quick reply with preview disabled--might have been addressed in iOS 8 beta 2.
 
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