If there’s one thing at the top of our iOS wish list, it’s for a better notification system. Especially now that Android and webOS have figured out a way to make notifications seamless and unobtrusive, Apple’s roadblock system has become seriously outmoded.
For starters, Cupertino can take a look at MobileNotifier, a jailbreak app developed by Peter Hajas that gives us the iPhone pings of our dreams. Steal it, buy it, modify it, I don’t care; just make my iPhone work like this, please. [9 to 5 Mac]
Nathan Young
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 9:00 AM+1
Your Mate Alex
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 10:26 AMIt’s definitely better, but switching apps is still clunky on the iphone and it still interrupts whatever it is you’re doing.
My wish list (that will never ever happen) -
1) a little led on the iphone with different colours indicating various states.
green – current or missed call
orange – message sms or text
blue – push alert
red – low battery or no coverage etc
off – everything is fine
if multiple alerts, flash between different colours.
It means not having to press the home button to see if there are any messages.
2) details of the alerts on the lock screen read only
3) alerts to be incorporated in (or preferably replace) the search screen. These are interactive.
4) when you unlock your phone, it should go to the alert (search) screen if there are any alerts.
5) Obviously there won’t be an led light so consider putting a virtual led next to the battery indicator. Regardless of which screen you are in, the entire outer single pixel border to glow the colour of alert for a second but nothing to pop up on the screen or interrupt what you’re doing.
Wade
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 12:33 PMWhy can’t we have what android has and have a pull down top bar. or a little envelope in the top bar.
And it annoys me to no end how the alarm clock shows up as a little clock and not the time its set for.
Also i dont know if anyone else has noticed if you load a video onto you iOS device and the title is longer than the screen you can’t see the whole title. Like if its #4 in a series. Then you are screwed.
Little things apple, its not 2007, things have changed.
Steve
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 6:33 PMThis. They should just out-right copy Android’s notification system, along with the red/orange/green LED.
And the lack of live Widgets is a colossal oversight. If Android can have screen-size widgets with everything for timer, weather, facebook, RSS feeds etc, the least IOS can do is make their icons update. “No, it’s not actually 23 degrees right now.”
Simon Reidy
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 12:53 PMI tried it and it’s not bad, but personally I find Notified Pro + the “Notification Grip” add-on far less intrusive and customisable. You get transparent growl style notifications + a pull-down notification bar like Android.
http://moreinfo.thebigboss.org/moreinfo/notificationgrip1.png
Notified Pro: http://modmyi.com/cydia/package.php?id=28607
Notification Grip add-on: http://modmyi.com/cydia/package.php?id=26437
dean
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 10:54 PMhow do we get the clock to move! that is so cool!
Aditya
Friday, June 17, 2011 at 5:01 PMthere’s a tweak called LiveClock available in Cydia….. although i dont think theres any point in getting the icon to show the time, since theres already a pretty readable clock on the statusbar…