Q: iOS 10 - How to group notifications by app?

djvinceadams wrote:

 

Just want to say ditto - please Apple put the ability to group by app back in the settings. Annoying for something used so often to not have that option.

There's not much point in saying it to Apple here. If you really want them to know how you feel, submit feedback where they'll actually see it.

Please bring this option back !

Whilst I agree this feature should be brought back as its much neater and quicker, if you're looking for a way to clear notifications you don't want without clearing the entire 'day', its possible.

Simply hard-press on the notification, it will blow up, then click the X in the upper right corner to delete the single notification.

Again, I realize its a longer process than simply clearing all notifications from a particular app in one shot, but may satisfy in the meanwhile. 

Same for me. I went to the feedback site and submitted my request. Why would they think that it was ok to "remove" this feature? Seems ignorant to take it away. It can't possibly be very many lines of code to have this option.

Can you please put that back.

it is VERY Annoying sort by "Recent"

I totally agree.  What's worse is that Apple never seems to offer an alternative or customisable way of displaying such things.

Apple, let us display the notifications how we want !!!!

Go to apple.com/feedback and provide the feedback there. 

Had the same question. Disappointed to see here that they removed this feature. Not a fan of the new notification center...looks pretty messy now. And not being able to sort and group by app is terrible

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

Grouping notifications by app is (was) wonderful!  If you have 10's or 100's of notifications across multiple apps, it is VERY difficult to scan through them having to re-focus your train of thought every other message.  Please bring this back!

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!!