Notifications Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Managing Notification Center annoyances

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 11th, 2013)

Reminders is either one of the most useful apps in OS X 10.8 or one of the most annoying, depending on who you talk to. I use Reminders on my iPhone a lot, but not so much on my Mac. Part of the reason is because I assumed that once a Reminder notification popped up on screen my only options ...

Hack brings all iPhone notifications to Pebble watch

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 14th, 2013)

Pebble watch owners have a good reason to jailbreak their iOS device. A new jailbreak app from developer Conrad Kramer lets the smartwatch accept all incoming notifications, not just the ones from native iOS apps, like messages and phone calls. This hack is available to most iPhone owners now ...

Apple rejects Mac app update that shows iTunes 11 notifications

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2012)

An app update has been rejected from the Mac App Store for using Notification Center in a way Apple says is wrong. Listening To is a US$1.99 app by developer Sherief Farouk, and the whole point of the app is to get a notification whenever iTunes plays a new music track. It seems straightforward ...

Google announces iOS Notification Center support for Gmail

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2012)

Google has announced some good news for prospective Mountain Lion users on its official blog: The company will tie Gmail notifications into Apple's Notification Center, which means you'll be able to know at a moment's notice when you've got emails to read. The integration will support banners, ...

Notifications, AirPlay, Game Center all coming to the Mac with Mountain Lion

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2012)

We knew these were coming to the next version of OS X already, but Apple has just demoed all three of them at the WWDC Keynote in San Francisco today. As you might expect, all three of these famous iOS features look pretty much the same on a Mac (especially now that the sweet MacBook Pro with ...

Indie video portrays the crazy, notification-driven life of an Apple user

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 1st, 2012)

Ever get bombarded by messages or miss out on something important because you had your nose in your computer? If you can answer "yes" to either question, then you will likely enjoy Digitals, a short film by Chris Crutchfield that portrays our busy digital life. Crutchfield says this about his video ...

Apple to improve Notification Center with fresh talent

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 14th, 2011)

Apple is looking outside its ranks and hiring a college student to help revise its iOS notification system. This isn't any college student. The new hire is Jan-Michael Cart, the whizkid who created a clever mocked up Notification Center redesign and then posted it to YouTube. Cart will join ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Can I disable those battery alerts?

by Erica Sadun (Oct 24th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Maybe I'm the only one this bothers, but Apple made a big deal about their whole new notifications in iOS 5. Then one day I was playing Canabalt, and I'm up to over 15,000! My high score is 17, so my heart really starts beating as I draw in. Suddenly I got a big pop-up on my ...

iOS 5 features: Custom notification sounds and alerts now available

by Chris Rawson (Oct 12th, 2011)

In January, I called on Apple to allow iOS users to customize the notification sounds on their devices beyond the nearly two dozen built-in sounds offered on the iPhone 4 and iPad. Back then I said, "The iPhone has been on the market for going on four years now, and yet we still haven't been ...

Interview: Growl's project lead on coming to the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

After the news yesterday that the popular notification service Growl was officially coming to the Mac App Store with the release of OS X Lion, TUAW tracked down Project Lead Christopher Forsythe and had a quick conversation about the reasons behind the decision and the future of Growl in ...

Growl coming to the Mac App Store as a full application

by Mike Schramm (Jul 6th, 2011)

Growl is one of my favorite things about the Mac platform -- it's a notification service whose customization and power is unmatched on anything I've seen in other operating systems. And it's going through some changes in the near future: Project Lead Christopher Forsythe has posted on the Growl ...

iOS 5 jailbreak offers third-party Notification Center widgets

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 14th, 2011)

Jailbreakers have already cracked iOS 5's Notification Center widgets, according to 9to5Mac. Notification screen widgets are little apps -- or widgets -- that run in the new Notifications Center in iOS 5. iOS 5 will ship with two widgets, stocks and weather. However, as usual, the jailbreak ...

iOS notifications might be getting a jailbreak boost (Updated)

by Mike Schramm (Jun 3rd, 2011)

When Steve Jobs takes the stage next Monday to introduce the world to iOS 5, one of the things we're most hoping to see is an update to the notifications system -- it's a little old at this point, and we've seen some really innovative suggestions on how to spice it up. Like, for example, this ...

iOS 5 to feature 'completely revamped' notifications, widgets

by Michael Grothaus (May 27th, 2011)

TechCrunch reports that iOS 5, expected to debut at WWDC next month, will feature a "completely revamped" notification system and widgets. Apple has long been rumored to be revamping its notifications system in iOS, and many have expected that such a notification system revamp would make its way ...

Designer pitches concept for usable iOS notifications in video

by Dana Franklin (May 3rd, 2011)

Like many of us here in the TUAW compound, designer Andreas Hellqvist is dissatisfied with the intrusive and often downright annoying notifications system iOS 4 offers today. Like me, he expresses his distaste for iOS's notifications by turning them off in almost every app on his device. After ...