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Re:Notifications are Evil by Splines on Monday February 20, 2012 @03:27PM (#3613751)
On the same note, I've never understood how people could stand iOS' SMS notifications; it just plain breaks the basic rule of not stealing focus from what the user is doing. Irritates me to no end.

In iOS5 there's a notification bar (similar to Android, from what I've heard). You can set SMS messages to only appear there.

It provides a welcome level of control, but I found the whole notification UI initially confusing. I found it difficult to match my mental model of an app's notification to the right settings to flip in the UI.

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Re:Notifications are Evil by commandar on Monday February 20, 2012 @03:39PM (#3613799)
>(similar to Android, from what I've heard).

Yes, it's lifted almost directly from Android. I wasn't aware that they'd offered the option to disable the annoying SMS pop up, though.

>I found it difficult to match my mental model of an app's notification to the right settings to flip in the UI.

On Android, notification options are in the settings menu for each app.

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