iOS 10 - How to group notifications by app?

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.

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).

Yes,

we do want grouping by app as in IOS9...this is new way is a waste of

efficiency..

I submitted feedback. I just upgraded and the notifications are making me regret it. I also upgraded my Mac to iTunes 12.5.1 and really regret that.

i agree with everyone here too. Please bring back grouped notifications!!

mistaplane wrote:

i agree with everyone here too.

Which is fine, dandy and completely useless. Submit your feedback to Apple.

done and done.

OMG what's wrong with them??? now all they do is takinging away useful features calling this future. I am really starting to turn from apple cause this new approach since iPhone 7.

Emperor Hyperion wrote:

OMG what's wrong with them??? now all they do is takinging away useful features calling this future. I am really starting to turn from apple cause this new approach since iPhone 7.

No one here can answer why Apple made a particular UIX decision. Submit your feedback.

I agree with everyone too

Please Apple, put the ability to group by app back in the settings.

After some days without checking notifications you need one week to close all notifications one by one

I already provided feedback to Apple. Hopefully they re-add this feature!

the worst change ever did by Apple. The new Notification Center makes our life really difficult and wastes our time as well.

Please Apple return back the old feature "sort by apps".

RezaBagh wrote:

the worst change ever did by Apple. The new Notification Center makes our life really difficult and wastes our time as well.

Worse than Mac OS 7? Worse than removing the floppy drive from Macs? Worse than the UIX changes in iOS 8?

The IOS 10 notification center modification makes absolutely no sense on an ipad pro, especially. The older system worked light years better showing both notifications and widgets on the same high res screen. Now all the notificatations and widgets have some box around them and take much more room so they have to be split on to separate screens. This takes more time to view simple information. The ungrouping of apps as well as the new theme are totally a step backwards and I hope this is rethought very soon. This new notification center is a very good reason to look into using a surface book or android over an ipad pro.

I Wonder why apple stops such small but important features from ios. Pls bring iy back... notifications should be grouped with apps.

mannvicky wrote:

I Wonder why apple stops such small but important features from ios. Pls bring iy back... notifications should be grouped with apps.

Probably because they disagreed with you on its importance. Submit your feedback asking for the feature back.

Personally, I find grouping by app very annoying and not at all important. Removing the option could be viewed as simplifying the interface by removing a feature that only a small minority of people used.