that or have the menu bar pulse and flick from the top of the screen to the bottom to make what ever is on the screen go away and you get a list

i personally think the first would be more elegant, but hey. . . the later seems to work well for android.

so you get 10 messages all at once, the dialog would say:

“message” [close] [action] 10 others [close all]

providing you an option to quickly clear the deck that would work in all apps.

then you would have a “notification app”, which might not actually be an “app”, but a “page” to the left of spotlight or some other UI gimmick. this “app” would list all your notifications in sequence, with some kind of tab to view to view only “unread notifications” that had been missed by tapping “close all”.

or maybe apple just forces people to tap “close” ten times, and then unsubscribe from some services.

the problem might not be the UI, but that people are oversubscribed to too many alerts. so many that UI improvements would only help people ignore them to the point that they become less and less useful.

Honestly the status bar notification is the only reason I opted to jailbreak.

Back to my suggestion a few posts ago, tapping on the top bar while in a call could open up that messages/settings list (since the top bar goes back to the call from anywhere else, again I'd rather have a triple click). Then it could just show me a badge in the top bar for new messages, eliminating the popup but I can still pull the phone away from my ear and look at it.

The settngs/messages page can also be 2 screens. One for settings, the other for new messages with the apps with new messages tiled like any other home screen. You could even rearrange and delete them (delete would ignore all new messages). Maybe a setting for which page opens up by default.

Another idea for the lock screen, if apple insists on keeping it clean, is to have a second half-sized slider pop up off the existing one that slides to the left instead of the right. It can have the different colored badges, mentioned in a previous post, right on the slider. Green for SMS, blue for mail, red for apps. Sliding this slider to the left opens the settings/messages page, defaulting to the messages page. Even better, treat SMS the same as it does now and the new messages page is only for apps (and maybe mail, but that's usually docked anyway. Although it'd be nice to finally have some sort of notification for it)

Green for Messages Blue for e-mails.

Maybe they should do that for PNS. They might not the numbered icons for Mess. and E-mails but they should do that for PNS definitely.

A nice list on the lock screen would be nice. For example, it could say "Twitterific 6 new", "Mail 3 new", etc. Or even just duplicate the icon with badge and organize all the ones with new messages nicely on the lock screen. They could put a dimmed-out badge on the left side for ones that are older than a specified amount of time (or ignored by unlocking and not checking them) so you can see what's new since the last time you checked.

This could also be put at the bottom of the SBSettings-ish screen everyone wants (pleeeease, Apple?). It would make sense for that to be either a triple click of the home button or a tap on the top bar from any home page. I would prefer a triple click just so I can change settings while in an app, but I'd be ecstatic just to get the feature that I'd be mostly happy anyway. Mostly. (south park reference, anyone?)

If I miss Monica's message to get the milk on my way home and that causes an argument between Monica and me ... then we have bigger problems in our relationship than my stupid iPhone. Steve Jobs sets an example by openly managing the top line rather than the bottom line (say, holding managers accountable instead of operators or contractors or anyone else "below the line"), and that can translate quite well to family life. Gadgets are the bottom line, not the top, in my opinion.

It doesn't have to be goodbye blue sky.

What people are really saying is: I have too many notifications coming in, they're interrupting my work/play etc. In effect, this is the same as saying that you don't want notifications, because, really, all that stuff can wait until I can deal with it later.

And if a user decides to ignore the notification a blinking notification icon (an arrow pointing downwards for example) could be drawn down to reveal a list of notifications. This would definitely be a better solution than what apple currently has in place.

Less an iPhone problem and more of a "we let the SMS horse out of the barn without a bridle" and have no way of catching him" problem.

So hopefully I'll be able to manage it myself by keeping only a few apps that really need the PNS, there are just some things that do not need it.

Would help

An idea would be to maximize and take advantage of existing empty space on the top status bar, and then place the following two additional, clickable icons on the right-hand side.

1. Central Notification Center Such an icon could call up a systemwide application that would break down all user notifications among categories laid out along the bottom of the app:

   • Phone (sub-tabs of Recents and Visual Voicemail on this screen)
   • Messages (including email, SMS, MMS, and instant messages)
   • Notifications (e.g., from third-party ESPN app, RSS reader, etc.)

2. Network and Power Settings Icon (posted previously as a comment on the /Dear Apple: Turning Off Bluetooth/ post) Such an icon could call up a control panel similar to the one in which volume and controls appear when double-tapping the Home button when it is configured to activate the iPod while a song is playing. This panel would have simple on-off switches immediately available for Wi-Fi, 3G (for those with the iPhone 3G), Bluetooth, Push services, and Brightness. (These are not only features that users want to be able to readily change depending on their usage needs, but also because they are the biggest battery hogs.)

   The panels that these two icons would normally bring up with a tap of their respective status bar icons could also be accessible via a double- (or triple-) click of the Home button.

Well, this will be kind of like the copy-paste issue, they deny it until it's impossible to continue and then they change it.

That's Apple. You must learn to like it.

They should do what they blackberry does and silence them, or do something like the Pre.