1 Organized and Simplified Notifications
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At present, Apple’s notification system in iOS 11 is a mess — they trickle in, one by one, seemingly piling up on top of one another like a sloppy stack of pancakes.
Thankfully, in iOS 12, Apple has introduced Grouped Notifications — a new feature designed to simplify and consolidate your notifications into a condensed, app-specific banner, from which all other notifications for that app can be viewed or hidden with ease.
There are plenty of other ways iOS 12 represents one of Apple’s most consumer-focused software updates yet. As noted in his post WWDC 2018 research note, Loup Ventures chief analyst Gene Munster pointed out how at WWDC 2018, Apple announced more new features for users than it did new tools for developers.
Features including “screen time limits, monitoring, and reports, grouped notifications, Do Not Disturb at bedtime, Siri shortcuts, new Safari privacy features, performance improvements for previous generation iPhones, and even third-party navigation apps on CarPlay” prove that Apple is “forgoing near-term benefits for developers and themselves in favor of a better user experience.”