The lock screen is not the only protagonist with the arrival of iOS 16, and it is that the notification center and the way we interact with it have also been updated with the latest version of iOS.
All of these changes can often be a bit difficult to understand, which is why iPhone News We decided to bring you the definitive guide to understanding and customizing iOS 16 notifications. This way you can take full advantage of these new features and above all dominate your iPhone as if you were a real “Pro”, don’t miss it!
How they are displayed in the notification center
As you know, in the Settings app we have the option Noticewhere we are going to find everything we need to know how they work and put into practice the tricks that we tell you about in this definitive guide.
For this we have the section Show aswhich will allow us to customize the way notifications are displayed in the notification center.
Count
This is one of the most controversial options with the arrival of iOS 16, and many users have seen how the Count option appears as an automatic parameter.
With this function, instead of displaying notifications on the screen in an orderly fashion, it will just display a prompt at the bottom of the screen which will refer to the number of pending notifications to read.
To interact with notifications you need to click on the indicator that appears at the bottom, between the flashlight button and the camera button, and then make a motion gesture between them. Honestly, this option invites you to easily miss a notification, my advice is not to activate it.
Band
View as Group is the middle option. This way, notifications will accumulate at the bottom, which can be viewed quickly in a timeline system. In the same way, they will be arranged according to the time we received it, leaving aside those which we have not attended for a long time.
This is probably the one that seems to me the most appropriate option. You can see the content of the notifications, or at least get an idea of ​​if we have a lot to do just by lighting up our iPhone screen or through the always-on display.
In addition, This leaves us with enough space so that the notification center and the lock screen do not become a real gibberish. content, so it seems to me the most consistent option.
Listing
This certainly seems to me the most anarchic and least clean option. Although in counting mode and in group mode the notifications will be stacked, in this case they will appear differently, one below the other, possibly creating an endless list depending on the number of notifications we can receive.
You could say that This is the most traditional version of giving us notifications in iOS. It can get a bit chaotic, which is why I think we’d all agree that it’s one of the less desirable options.
Notification layout options
In addition to these options, Apple gives us in iOS 16 the possibility of adjusting the design and content of notifications through three main functions that are available:
- Summary programmed: In this way we will be able to select that instead of receiving notifications instantly, they are postponed and scheduled at specific times of the day. Likewise, we will set a time when we want the summary of notifications to arrive, only receiving notifications from the applications that we have selected as the most important.
- Insight: As you well know, we can choose if we want the content of the message to be displayed in the notification center and the lock screen, i.e. an excerpt from the message or the email that was sent to us. Otherwise, only the “Notification” message will appear. At this point we will have three options: always show them, show them only if the iPhone is locked or never show them and we must enter the application in service.
- When screen sharing: When we make a FaceTime call and use SharePlay, we can share our screen content. In this way, the theory says that they will be able to see the notifications that we receive. This feature is disabled natively, so they will not be able to see them, but if for some reason we want it, we can enable it.
Ultimately We can also involve Siri in how notifications arrive. We have two options, the first allows us to have Siri announce the notifications received and read us an excerpt. The second option will allow us to receive suggestions from Siri in the notification center.
Customization of each application
In this aspect we can also configure how we want an application to send us notifications. To do this, simply go to Settings > Notifications and select the app you want to customize.
That much we can even disable notifications from a specific application, if we do this with applications that we are not interested in, we will save a lot of battery because we will avoid the transmission of push information.
Then we can configure, or rather enable and disable the display of these notifications on the screen when we use the phone or in the notification center:
- Lock screen: Whether or not we want them to be displayed on the locked screen.
- Notification Center: Whether or not we want it to be displayed in the notification center.
- bands: Whether or not we want a notification to arrive at the top of the screen when we receive a notification. In addition, we can choose if we want this strip to be displayed only for a few seconds or to remain there permanently until we click on it.
We also offer different options for displaying notifications on the screen:
- Sounds: Whether or not to receive a sound when the notification arrives.
- Keep: Activate or deactivate the red bubble which indicates by number the number of pending notifications in this application.
- Show in CarPlay: We will receive notice of notifications in CarPlay while driving.
Ultimately, we will be able to select individually, for each application, whether we want a preview of the notification content to be displayed or not, in case we do not want WhatsApp or Telegram messages to be displayed, a good idea.
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