{"id":1229,"date":"2009-06-18T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:01:43","slug":"iphone-notifications-annoyingly-not-scalable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/06\/iphone-notifications-annoyingly-not-scalable\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone notifications: Annoyingly not scalable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the iPhone&#8217;s UI, but there&#8217;s one part of it that I don&#8217;t like: those popup dialog boxes that take over the screen. I first got annoyed with this after leaving my phone at my apartment for a day while I was at work. Since I have it synced to my calendar, a reminder popped up every time I had a meeting that day. Since I wasn&#8217;t there to close out the messages as they came in, the next time I used my phone I had to sit there and tap &#8220;close&#8221; a bunch of times before I could do anything with my phone.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I turned on my iPhone for the first time in a while (I&#8217;ve been using Android) to try out the 3.0 software. After updating the OS, I had a bunch of apps which hadn&#8217;t been updated in a while. For each app I tried to update, I received a notification that the iTunes terms of service had changed. This bug (multiple notifications instead of one) would only be a minor annoyance if the UI didn&#8217;t require that the messages block the operation of the phone. I took a short video of having to tap through the notifications, which I&#8217;m embedding below. I actually had to tap &#8220;OK&#8221; a bunch more times, but the tape is corrupted so I wasn&#8217;t able to capture the whole segment:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2nAErJvzm_Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the iPhone&#8217;s UI, but there&#8217;s one part of it that I don&#8217;t like: those popup dialog boxes that take over the screen. I first got annoyed with this after leaving my phone at my apartment for a day while I was at work. Since I have it synced to my calendar, a reminder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/06\/iphone-notifications-annoyingly-not-scalable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iPhone notifications: Annoyingly not scalable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}