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Comment by mrweasel | Hacker News Reader

The notification feature looks nice. I've pretty much exclusively used iOS, but honestly notifications is a weak point for iOS, in my opinion. I frequently have the 1 notification on my home screen, but once unlocked notifications are pretty much impossible to find again.

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I'm certainly happy to see "force grouping". Grouping is a great opt-in enhancement, but it never should've been wholly in apps' control to begin with - apps in general cannot be trusted to not be dumb, gotta have user control to override them.

I agree that Android notifications are broadly better than iOS but the live activities feature was a good idea and I’m quite glad that’s been added to Android now

Yeah, I've not quite figured out what I'm doing wrong, but sometimes iOS notifications just disappear after clicking on them. I think it's when iOS decides my face isn't good enough (I have an iPhone 11 where the FaceID isn't as good as the newer phones), and then it tries three times and fails...then the notification is dismissed because I clicked on it but I haven't actually unlocked the phone? Then it's gone forever seemingly.

Once unlocked, swipe down from the top of the screen to open Notification Center.

On iOS the annoying thing about this gesture is that it only does that if you swipe down from the center. If you do it from top right corner (which is rather generously defined), you get shortcuts instead.

It works if you swipe down from the left side of the screen.

With a case on the phone, my success rate of swiping downwards like that is about 60%

Seems about right and the missing ones are the ones you're most likely to be the ones you don't understand.

The swiping downward is also fairly dumb. There zero discoverability and triggering it seems hit in miss.

If you have no notification swiping down also locks your phone, rather than telling you that you have zero notification... WHY?

From my perspective they merely added features Apple has had in notifications for years.

Agreed. I was surprised to see this, given the constant meme that iOS notifications are just copying Android.

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