6 ways to make the most of the iOS notification center 9 - Do not feel bad if you almost never slide down on your iPhone or iPad screen t...
Do not feel bad if you almost never slide down on your iPhone or iPad screen to open the notification center in iOS twofold 9. of course, it is useful for looking at the weather or check your upcoming calendar events, but you may have little need for the ticker depressing, not to mention the tufts application of random alerts.
With a little effort, however, you can really put to work notification center. To begin, you should not settle for standard widgets together in the Today view, neither should you resign yourself to the order of the default widget. You can also keep specific applications skipping notification alerts center, access to the notification center to disable the lock screen, and more.
Rearrange your widgets
The first thing you see when you drag down the notification center window is the Today tab, which gives you the day and date, an automatically generated summary of the weather and the day's events and a series of "widgets" based on applications such as calendar, stocks, reminders, Find My friends, and so right now.
Ben Patterson Just tap, hold and drag a handle to rearrange the widgets.
Fortunately, it is easy to rearrange widgets or nix everything you do not like. Just scroll down to the Today view and press the Edit button. You will see a list of all your Notification Center widgets active, complete with red remove buttons on one side and the handles on the three others online.
To remove a widget, press the red circle and press the Delete button. The widget will scoot off to the "Do not include" where you will find other inactive notification center widgets you can add to the list of active widgets by pressing the green plus sign.
To arrange a widget, press and hold the handle, then drag it where you want. Oddly, while you can delete the Summary Today, traffic conditions, and tomorrow summary widgets, you can not rearrange them.
Keep an eye on new widgets
If we can not find any widgets in the section you want to enable "Do not include" do not give up just yet.
Ben Patterson Check the bottom of the Today view widget for news alerts.
Every time one of your installed applications adds support for widgets, a "New Widgets Available" alert appears next to the Edit button at the bottom of the Today view. Press Edit to see what new widgets have been added to the list and who knows, maybe you'll find one that makes notification center is using again.
Group alerts by date rather than by the application
When you tap the Notifications tab in the notification center (or just slide the screen from right to left ), you'll pass the Today view a list of all your recent alerts and the longer I am sorry that my notifications were grouped according to the application, with less interesting applications always first.
Ben Patterson Make sure the group by the App setting is disabled to organize alerts in the Notifications pane by date.
Finally, I decided to stop ignoring the Notifications tab and began to search my iOS parameters for a solution. Before long, I found: setting the group by App.
At some point, I must have changed the Group By App parameter you'll find by typing Settings> Notifications , with the sort order by setting up and forgotten, leaving my notification alerts Center agglomerated together by application.
Put the Group By App from, and alerts in the Notifications panel will be organized by date, which, for me anyway, is the Notifications see much more useful.
In order to take full charge of the order in which the notifications are listed, press Settings> Notifications and switching parameter Tri Manual Order. You can then tap, hold and drag the handles next to each application to organize your Notification Center alerts in any way you see fit.
Scan a notice to take action
Widgets and alerts in the notification center will obtain a review this fall with iOS 10. With the arrival of rich notifications in iOS 10 you be able to do things like open a Uber alert to call your driver or see a whole fillet with a message alert.
Ben Patterson You can mark a mail message as "read" or remove completely by dragging the Notification Center alerts.
Of course, you can already take action on some alerts notification center without waiting around for iOS 10 grounded. You may know, for example, you can drag down on a notification messages to respond to a message directly in the alert. What you may not know, however, is that you can also drag the alerts listed on the Notifications tab.
Swipe on a Mail Alert, and you will see a pair of buttons: Mark read and Trash. You can also drag a message alert and press Answer. Sweeping most other alerts only reveal a small button "x" you can press to dismiss the notification.
Keep your notifications on your lock screen
There is certainly convenient to be able to slide down on your iPhone or iPad locked for a look on the weather or your next event schedule.
Ben Patterson You can keep strangers from browsing your Notification Center alerts by changing your lock screen settings.
But you might be less enthusiastic about this idea the next time your device goes missing, especially since it is possible to read, for example, text messages Notifications from view, even if your iPhone or iPad is locked.
To keep foreigners poking Notification Center on your device is locked, press Settings> Touch ID & Passcode , scroll down to Allow access when locked section and uncheck the Today and / or See Notifications settings.
If you want applications to set notifications on your lock screen while keeping the most sensitive notifications security applications behind your password, go to Settings> Notifications where you will find a list of each application that has asked permission to inform you. Under each application, you will find separate switches to enable these notifications on your lock screen and notification center.
Disable Notification Center alerts for specific applications
If there is a particular application that keeps stuffing Notification Center with alerts that you do not need to see you can easily prohibit the application of Notifications view.
Ben Patterson You can expel alert notification center application by modifying the application's notification settings.
Touch Settings> Notifications , scroll down to the offending application (or just find the application from the main screen settings) and then uncheck the Show in the notification Center settings.
Keep in mind that the cut of the Show in the Notification Center only keeps up alerts to appear in the notification panel; all banners of the application, badges, and other alerts will still function normally. To review, banners appear briefly and then disappear, an alert is like a banner, but must be dismissed manually, and a badge is a number in a red circle that appears on the application icon.
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