I have to admit, most of my feelings about push notifications on the iPhone are in the sort of ‘bah humbug’ category. Not a big fan at all so far, and just don’t feel I need or want them from the vast majority of apps. One of the few exceptions so far is Twitter – I do quite like the idea of getting alerts for DMs and @ mentions in Twitter.
Even with Twitter alerts though, I do not want them all the time on my iPhone. Most days, during daylight hours I am at or near my Mac more or less all the time – and when I’m not, nothing really urgent is going to come to me via Twitter (urgent is nearly always conveyed by phone or email).
So … I only really want Twitter notifications on my iPhone during evening hours.
And that’s the first change / addition to the iPhone push modifications system that I’d like to see – an ability to add some time settings. Let me tell whichever app is doing my Twitter push that I only want to receive alerts from 7:00pm – 7:00am or similar. Or even give me a setting to choose to ‘stay connected for X hours’ like the IM apps do. I assume this will save me a good bit of battery juice as well.
Without this sort of setting, I’m afraid I’ll soon choose to turn Twitter alerts off altogether.
What do you all think? What changes / additions would you like to see with push notifications?
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Our app, "Tweet Push" allows you to do exactly this. You can set a "Quiet Time" which will automatically disable push notifications to your phone for a period that you specify each day. (I'm the developer of Tweet Push)
That's a great feature Layton, glad to hear you've included it – but I would really like to see this be a standard that was available to set for all apps that want to use push. Are you guys planning to expand your push coverage to other, non-Twitter apps?
Agree completely. Apple needs to straighten this out asap. We need to be able to set up hours/days etc. (or not depending on your preference) when push notificaitons can't happen.
You haven't lived until Agile messenger pushes out a buzzing notifcation to you at 2 o'clock in the morning to let you know each or your 5 IM accounts has gone offline… and it does so 1 by 1!!!! geeez, a little thought to the process guys (which Apple is usually much better at.)
Rich
LOL – and ouch – I think I have seen that once or twice when the right sort of disconnect period hit. Yes, more clever thought from Apple needed here for sure.
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