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notifications on my iPhone make me nuts. They appear, and I do want to see what
they're telling me, but they stick around seemingly forever. Is there some way
to dismiss them as soon as I see them?
This really is Ken’s question,
because this happens to him often: He’s looking at his email on his iPhone, and
new email arrives. When the new email arrives (perhaps an email he’s been
anticipating, and that he wants to read immediately), the phone displays an
alert in Notification Center. The banner alert stays onscreen for what feels
like a full minute (but is, in fact, just a few seconds). He was looking for a
way to quickly dismiss the banner so he could get back to the business of
reading his emails.
The solution to this problem is
surprisingly easy: When a banner appears, if you’d like that banner to dismiss
immediately, simply swipe down on the banner just a little bit, then swipe up
to remove it. That’s it! Swipe down, and then up, and the banner is history.
On the other hand (and this is
important), on the iPhone, and on almost any smart phone, you have the option
to completely turn off notifications if you don't want to see them at all. On
the iPhone, using iOS 7, go to the Settings app and select the Notifications
Center option. In Notifications Center settings, you can select from None,
Banners, and Alerts for notifications. You can also set other notifications
options. You can set Notifications settings for each app individually, which
means you can have the phone display notifications for the Mail app (with
specific settings for each mail provider) distinctly from the way it displays
notifications for other applications.
For more information on dismissing
notifications quickly, check out this site: http://goo.gl/B51ldn.
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