disable notification center completely iphone

Apple removed my first post for no good reason, so I'm going to try to be as constructive as possible without being as blatantly angry as I actually am... even though I find it ironic that their deity ; Steve Jobs, was never anything close to constructive or reserved when criticizing people or products, yet somehow it seemed to work...

Anyways, I agree with the above post 1,000%. I too have absolutely no desire for the notification center. I badly need to disable this so called feature. Why exactly was it added to my phone in the first place? It does nothing but hinder my experience and pop up in the middle of my games when I don't want it. Did I ask for it? No. I don't want it at all. Give me the option to remove it, many people have asked for it and it seems to be slowing down a lot of games.

I too would like to disable completely the function to access new notifications by swiping down from the top of the screen. My 2 year old daughter is often playing with my iphone and she is now constantly giving me the device back again as its got stuck in the new notification centre.

I honestly thought that this new notification system was a bug which was introduced as I was testing a new app on my phone recently. I'm stunned that this is deemed a critical feature which can't be disabled.

Why oh why oh why have Apple decided that this is a core feature which we cannot disable? Grr....

Playing games like Fruit Ninja and Infinity Blade are dampened by this annoying slide to drop down notification center. PLEASE, add an option to disable atleast the drop down feature. I absolutely hate it.

I hate notification center too and I see it as a "bug". I dont use it but still an empy grey screen comes down. Logicly it must be disabled if nothing is on right?

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I hate the notification center, it gets in the way when you want to skip forward in youtube and in the ipod when tou want to forward on a track from the actual bar at the top, ios 5 is not all that at all it is not user friendly so make a option for the notification center to be disabled for people who dont want to use it ASAP

How does it get in the way when not pulled down?

And you can disable notifications for any and all apps that are currently in Notification Center. I don't think notifications were enabled for any apps by themselves, but they can be turned off for each app currently available in Notification Center and don't enable notifications for any other apps.

So you want it to go back to the stopping your game while in the middle with a text notification right in the middle of the screen? I bet you don't want it to do that. The notification system is perfect the way it is now. You can't please everyone.

Hi guys,

When you install an application (games and utilities), it prompts you with "App_name would like send you push notifications". You just have to select "Don't Allow" everytime. This way, even when there's an update for that app, or a new message and what not, it won't have pop up in your screen. Works for all apps. http://iphone-and-i.blogspot.com/

scott

What are you thinking KC7GNM?! If we DIDN'T want it to go back to the original method of stopping the game, then we wouldn't have POSTED in this thread in the FIRST PLACE. Is that really hard to comprehend? What exactly is the point of your post in this thread? Stop you're attempt at trolling.

We all want it to stop the game like it did before. That will prevent me from DYING every time I get a text message when I'm playing my games, which is currently what happens. I don't care about pleasing everyone, I care about getting what I PAID FOR, when I purchased my phone! Now, a lot of my games are unplayable

unicohijo86: This won't prevent notification center from pulling down during a game that requires swiping like Fruit Ninja does. This seems to be what most people in this thread want.

And even still, this isn't a sufficient fix for what we're complaining about because we don't want to "not receive any message when we get a text" for example. We only want a text message to NOT ruin our gaming experience or disrupt any other task we might be doing. Usually when I get a text message while I'm playing some of my favorite games, I'll be killed in my game (or something equivelant) simply because the new texting methods cause the game to stutter and lag and then when the game updates, I'm dead.... LAME!!!!!!

Disabling all notifications of text messaging is not a sufficient solution for this problem. If there were a way to remove notifcation center and revert to the previous method with the game stopped (as it should because Apple phones don't multi-task worth crap) then I could recover just fine once the game resumes... which is what I had been doing for over a year! That's all I want.

My mistake. I get the problem now. There is no way no turn it off, at the moment. Even when you turn off individual apps an empty Notification Center will still pull down when you swipe twice from the top of the screen. Hopefully an iOS update will give an option to turn it off.

I found a solution - check out the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvfjF4Ds3Iw

It doesn't include directions so I had to play around with it a few times. Try to follow it as best you can. No more NC swipe downs and smoother, snappier iphone performance.

Zeeeeeeez. Looks cool what you did, but that ain't working for me. I followed the instructions as closely as I could and it didn't disable my notification centre. Perhaps some written instructions may help because the video is not explicit on some details.

And what's with all that accessibility stuff? I work in the industry and know a thing or two but a newbie like me to those accessibility advanced options were totally incomprehensible. I set up a few new custom gestures but couldn't see how to assign a command to them, so they just sat their rather pointlessly. Did anyone else have the same eexperience as me?

Will