Question: Q: iOS 10 notifications won't go away

Hi, dbell12

In this case, try restarting your phone. The link below will help you with this-

Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Same thing. This is very annoying. Cant sild up the notifications up to close them. Will I have to turn off notifications? Come on apple

I am dealing with something similar. The banner will stay on the screen for an extended period of time and not go away automatically after a couple seconds seeing the notification.

Try going to Settings, Notifications, and any particular app. There is a setting that makes it so it doesn't go away. Once your in notifications, and in any app, try seeing if banners are on instead of alerts. When upgrading to iOS 10 it could have defaulted to banners. Hope this helped!

I am having the same issue. The 'banners' appear on my locked screen and stay there until I take action to remove them. I have already verified in Settings > Notifications that my apps are set to Banner and Alert is not selected.

This is very annoying. In settings it describes banners as appearing momentarily and then going away.

if you click the home button the notification will go away - this is not a bug (fixed by restarting) but a new "feature"... hate it. but no way to remove as far as I can tell

Same issue here! I made sure my settings were set to banner, as banners are SUPPOSED to go away automatically whereas alerts require an action. This doesn't apply to just one app either, as it's happening with texts, emails, Amazon notifications, etc. If this kind of extra battery draining is a new "feature", I'd like to roll back my ios version!

It is a widget. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there is a edit setting. You can disable there.

This is the new functionality of Alert notifications. Make sure your notifications are set to Banner if you would like them to go away after a few seconds. Drove me mad for a few weeks!

I'm having the same problem and it's most frustrating. I have checked that all my notifications are set to banners and NOT alerts. I have also tried restarting my phone but this made no difference. As this is affecting my currently opened apps, as I can not view that section of my screen, my only thought is to remove the notifications all together but then this will just raise another problem of not knowing that you have been notified, so not really the best option. I hope Apple resolves this problem soon! :/

I quickly rolled back to iOS 9 and it fixed all the new bugs introduced with 10. Text banners set to alert on iOS 10 DO NOT go away if you are using an app. They will stay there at the top of the screen indefinitely until you respond to them, click the home button or lock the phone. This is not the intended operation yet this extremely obvious flaw somehow made it all the way through the crack team of beta testers and into the final release. iOS keeps getting worse and worse with every new release. The amount of bugs I have discovered in 10 is completely inexcusable. iOS 6 was the last good version of iOS Ever made.

T00LF00L wrote:

I quickly rolled back to iOS 9 and it fixed all the new bugs introduced with 10. Text banners set to alert on iOS 10 DO NOT go away if you are using an app. They will stay there at the top of the screen indefinitely until you respond to them, click the home button or lock the phone.

They work fine for me in iOS 10.

100% agree

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