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FitzZic

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Sep 16, 2022
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Hi everyone,

Following this thread about changes in notification behavior on iOS 16, it comes to me that we do not have all the same methodology to deal with notifications. And I want to know about your habits.

I was surprised that they are basically two camps of workflow about notifications:

  • the ones that treats each notification, by taping it, dismissing it, or let it in the Notification Center for later (it needs a fine methodology to enable/disable apps that only do useful notification);
  • the ones that see them in the Lock Screen, and don't interact with it directly and never use the Notification Center, relying only on red badges to backtrack missed conversations/things (basically let all notifications on, as Lock Screen to Notification Center workflow of iOS already "dismiss" these notifications).
Clearly I'm from the first camp and that's why the "always hidden" Notification Center bothers me, as I always swipe up to see if "there's more here".

But I don't blame the second camp, because:
1) my wife is doing the same, and she never miss calls or messages, so it's a workflow which works well too;
2) I tend to be of the second camp for macOS. On macOS, Notification is just a timely glance view of incoming things, but I never touch the Notification Center of macOS or clicking on notification. I'm just using the red badges on my Dock.

What about you?
 
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