Changes in Notification (iOS 15): Focus Mode/ Notification Summary
Notification Management
In iOS 15, there are new system controls that affect the delivery and interruption of notifications.
- Notification Summary
- Focus
Notification Summary: Notification Summary is an optional feature that allows users to stop receiving notifications in real-time, and instead receive a summary of iPhone push notifications at particular times of the day depending on their personal preferences.
Notification can now be delivered at a scheduled time in the day as a summary.
This reduces the number of active interruptions from incoming notifications and presents them collectively at a preset time.
All notification delivered to the summary on a schedule is present in the notification list on the Lock Screen
Include media attachments with notification content it is a better chance for the notification to be featured at the top of the notification summary.
The process of Scheduled Summary: Settings > Notifications > Scheduled Summary.
After enabling a scheduled summary with a time(like 7:00 Am set in the SS), On that time you will receive a notification summary.
Focus Mode: With Focus, you can create an activity, such as working, exercise, Driving, Sleep, Reading, etc. It’s basically Do Not Disturb with more options for refining that which type of notification you want to see or not.
If you turn on Focus on your iPhone, your iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac will also enter Focus mode automatically.
Create Focus Mode: Settings > Click on the + symbol to create custom focus > select people, you want a notification from a specific person then select add apps that you want notification during the enable focus.
How to manage Interruption Levels?
we have a new API as a part of the UserNotificatoin framework that is Interruptionlevels
Interruption Levels:
Passive (new) (No Sound / No screen Light / No breakthrough)
- Delivered to the notification list silently.
- Don’t break through system management of notifications.
- Do not require immediate attention to interrupt.
Active (default) (Sound and vibration / Screen Light Up / No breakthrough)
- This is the default interruption level.
- Delivered notification with sound, screen light up.
- Don’t break through system management of notifications.
- Do not require immediate attention to interrupt.
Time Sensitive (new) (Sound and vibration / Screen Light Up / Allowed to breakthrough)
- Delivered notification with sound, screen light up.
- They can break through system control, such as notification summary and focus, If it has been allowed.
- Use in case of Immediate attention
Example:
- Account security
- Package delivery Etc
- Banking security notifications
- Package delivery notifications
- Food delivery alerts
- Ride pick-up alerts
Critical (Sound and vibration / Screen Light Up / Allowed to breakthrough / Bypassed ringer switch )
- Delivered notification with sound, screen light up.
- They can break through system control, such as notification summary and focus, If it has been allowed.
- Bypass the ringer switch on the device.
- The critical interruption level is equivalent to the critical notification support that exists in iOS 14.
Example: Weather Notification, Health-related Notification
https://medium.com/@shashidharyamsani/implementing-ios-critical-alerts-7d82b4bb5026
Local notification with interruption level
Push notification payload
Likewise, we can set the interruption level according to need and replace
“Interruption-level” with “passive”, “active”, “time-sensitive”, “critical”
Changes in the Notification Permission:
When Notification Summary is enabled, app permission requests will offer two options for users to choose from when setting up how they want to receive notifications. These are, ‘Allow Immediate Notifications’, ‘Add to Scheduled Summary’ or ‘Don’t Allow’.
Arrangement of the Notification in the lock screen, in case of focus, Notification summary is enable
YouTube Tutorial Link: https://youtu.be/pkvmiWrgCis
Thank you for reading.
