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iOS 15 Features Redesigned Notifications and New Notification Summary Sorted by Priority

Apple today, with iOS 15, announced a slew of new changes coming to notifications on iPhone, including a completely redesigned interface and a new way to summarize notifications based on activities.

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Notifications now have a completely new design on the lock screen, featuring richer images for messages, and a cleaner more compact look. With the redesign, iOS 15 also introduces a Notification summary, which uses on-device machine learning to automatically populate notifications based on priority in a new lock screen design.
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Notifications have been redesigned, adding contact photos for people and larger icons for apps that make them even easier to identify. To help reduce distraction, a new notification summary collects non-time-critical notifications for delivery at a more opportune time, such as in the morning and evening. Using on-device intelligence, notifications are arranged by priority, with the most relevant notifications rising to the top, and based on a user’s interactions with apps. Urgent messages will be delivered immediately, so important communications will not end up in the summary, and it’s easy to temporarily mute any app or messaging thread for the next hour or for the day

The redesigned notifications is one of many changes coming to iOS 15. Learn more about all the other new features.

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Top Rated Comments

AppleFan91 Avatar
67 months ago
Wow…now we know why there weren’t many leaks about iOS 15 before WWDC because…well, there wasn’t much to leak, it seems.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
EricNau Avatar
67 months ago
So… out of 11 notifications, Apple’s machine learning gave highest priority to an ad from Yelp?

Great.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
67 months ago
Man IOS15 and IPadOS 15 were weak this year. Good to see the M1 and all that ram are being put to good use 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
xeux Avatar
67 months ago

So… out of 11 notifications, Apple’s machine learning gave highest priority to an ad from Yelp?

Great.
Why hasn't Yelp been banned out of existence is beyond me. (**** them)
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jackietreeh0rn Avatar
67 months ago
What a mehhhhhhhh update. This is all that was leaked and as it turned out, this is all there was to it.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
67 months ago
Don’t notifications get a completely new design every year?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)