iOS 10 - How to group notifications by app?

I just downloaded and installed the new iOS 10 and the first thing I noticed that I want to change is the notifications. I would like to get them grouped by app again, how I had them set up on iOS 9. However, I can't seem to find this option anywhere in the settings. Can someone please tell me how I can change this setting or if it's no longer an option?

Thank you in advance.

iPhone 6, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 11:30 AM

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Posted on Dec 1, 2017 10:01 AM

It has been over a year since Apple removed that feature. At a guess, it's not likely to come back. But, if it's important to you, you should still submit your feedback to Apple and let them know.


http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Sep 19, 2016 2:44 PM in response to pucknfruck

I love iOS but what Apple did with notifications is really a mess:

  1. As everybody mentioned, not grouping is a big miss, why I have to read 35 twitter irrelevant notifications to find a really critical phone call or message. Why not let us first group notifications but also prioritize or sort the notifications (as was before iOS10), so I still can receive the 35 twitter notifications but if in settings I put phone on top of the list I´m sure that always will see missed calls on top.
  2. Why we need this giant "clear" button, years of swiping left to clear were not enough to understand how this works? I understand that there should be compatibility for non-3D Touch devices, but for those devices a long press would be a more elegant solution (IMO) to view additional options.
  3. The 3D Touch preview in the notification center for Mail is very poor, if your mail has any kind of HTML content the preview is really annoying.
  4. Many (MANY) times touching a Notification does not work (to open the app to see the notification content), it happened to many apps (top offender is the mail app), only restarting the iPhone solves (temporarily) the issue.


Anyway, these are those that I remember right now, I think Notifications on iOS10 are a little step in the right direction (because of being more interactive) but a huge step in the wrong direction from usability point of view.


I´m a long time iPhone user but I can also appreciate that Android under Marshmallow and specially under Nougat get Notifications right, it´s difficult to understand why is so difficult for Apple to deliver a proper notification system.

Sep 19, 2016 2:51 PM in response to pucknfruck

I wound up solving this a different way:


I have disabled "show in notification center" on every app, except wallet.


Notification Center in IOS 10 is just not useful to me.


Even Banner notifications have become annoying (harder to dismiss, and it seems like they notify you of things that are no longer "new" -- like if you read a text message via "hand off" on your Mac -- I'm 99% sure that on IOS 9, it wouldn't give you a banner when you unlocked your iPhone, because it was already marked as read. But now it does give you that banner, even though you can clearly see there's no badge on the Messages app. Messages knows you read it, but apparently the banner notifications don't know you've already read it. That's a definitely usability / user-experience gaff).

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