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 has also been refreshed with the latest version of iOS.
All of these changes can often be a bit difficult to understand, which is why iPhone News We have decided to bring you the definitive guide to understand and customize iOS 16 notifications. In this way you will be able to take full advantage of these new features and above all dominate your iPhone as if you were a true “Pro”, do not miss it!
How they are displayed in the Notification Center
As you know, in the Settings application we have the option Notificationswhere we are going to find everything we need to know how they work and put into practice the tricks that we are telling 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 the automatic setting.
With this function, instead of displaying the notifications on the screen in an orderly way, it will simply display a prompt at the bottom of the screen that will refer to the number of pending notifications to read.
To interact with notifications you must click on the indicator that appears at the bottom, between the flashlight button and the camera button, to later make a movement gesture between them. Honestly, this option invites you to easily miss a notification, my advice is not to activate it.
Cluster
Show as Group is the middle option. In this way, the notifications will accumulate at the bottom, being able to consult them quickly in a timeline system. In the same way, they will be organized according to the time that we received it, leaving aside those that we have not attended for a long time.
This is undoubtedly the one that seems to me the most appropriate option. We can see the content of the notifications, or at least get an idea of whether we have many things to attend to simply by illuminating the screen of our iPhone or through the always-on-display.
Also, It leaves us 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.
Ready
This certainly seems to me the most anarchic and least clean option. Although in the Count mode and in the 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.
We could say that It is the most traditional version of offering us notifications in iOS. It can get a bit chaotic, which is why I think we’ll all agree that it’s one of the least 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:
- Scheduled Summary: In this way we will be able to select that instead of receiving notifications instantly, they are postponed and scheduled for specific times of the day. Likewise, we will define a time in which we want the summary of notifications to arrive, receiving only the notifications of those applications that we have selected as the most important.
- Preview: As you well know, we can choose if we want the message content to be displayed in the Notification Center and Lock Screen, that is, an extract of the message or email that has been sent to us. Otherwise, only the message “Notification” will appear. At this point we will have three options: Show them always, show them only if the iPhone is locked or never show them and we have to enter the application on duty.
- When sharing the screen: When we make a FaceTime call and use SharePlay, we can share the content of our screen. In this way, the theory says that they will be able to see the notifications that we receive. That feature is natively disabled, so they won’t be able to see them, but if for some reason we want them to, we can turn it on.
Finally We can also make Siri intervene in the way notifications arrive. We have two options, the first allows us to have Siri announce the notifications received and read us an extract. The second option will allow us to receive suggestions from Siri in the Notification Center.
Personalization 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.
In this point we will even be able to deactivate the notifications of 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 will be able to configure, or rather activate and deactivate how those notifications are displayed on the screen while we use the phone or in the Notification Center:
- Lock screen: If we want them to be displayed or not on the locked screen.
- Notification Center: If we want it to be displayed or not in the notification center.
- Strips: 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 that strip to be shown only for a few seconds or to stay there permanently until we click on it.
We also have different options for how notifications are displayed on the screen:
- Sounds: Whether or not to receive a sound when the notification arrives.
- Balloons: Activate or deactivate the red balloon that indicates with a number how many notifications are pending in that application.
- Show in CarPlay: We will receive a notice of notifications in CarPlay while driving.
Finally, we will be able to select individually, for each application, if we want a preview of the content of the notification to be displayed or not, in case we do not want the WhatsApp or Telegram messages to be displayed, a good idea.