

Example A: Multiple Twitter Notifications

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Example B: Android's Combined Notifications ​

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iOS 10 added a much needed and complete overhaul of the notification system. Personally, I accept this new redesign with open arms. However, there seems to be one major complaint: they take upof space. Now, it's easy to blame theof the notifications, and that's definitely part of the situation, but realistically,Currently, iOS handles notifications by creating afor every interaction with an app. To manage the multiple notifications, Apple offers an option to group notifications by app. If I have 5 Facebook notifications, I have 5notifications. If I have 8 texts, I haveindividual notifications, etc., etc. This is the system Apple has used since the introduction of the Notification Center in iOS 5.An active group chat can result in hundreds of individual notifications. For example I'm in a group chat of friends with about 12 active people, and I have to leave it muted anytime I choose not to participate, due to the amount of notifications that collect.However, a solution exists, and it can be observed on any Android phone running Lollipop or newer. Currently, Android handles multiple notifications from the same application byThis allows the Notification Center to still display many different notifications, but in a design that is cleaner than what iOS provides.The obvious solution to this issue is to create a single notification for what an app generates. I'm currently working an example with Apple's UI elements, but here's a sketch of how iOS notifications should be in the future:As you can see, this approach allows you to address the two major notification issues:andIn addition, this concept can be taken further, by allowing applications to create unique notifications for independent events, such as two different group chats, or two different email accounts:This solves the major issue of how iOS notifications are displayed.One issue of concern I've come up with is how you can still make the notifications interactive. For example an app may have specific force touch/interactions associated with that notification, so combining them into one list poses a challenge on how to access those actions.Interacting with the notification group allows you to then see a normal list of notifications (how it's currently displayed), and then notification actions can be taken from there.What do you guys think? I would like to get feedback and critiques, negative and positive. What do you guys like about the idea? What do you dislike? What could be improved?Thanks for reading! I'll have actual iOS screenshots of the concept up soon.