Among i OS 8's many new features are some cool ways to let you interact with your apps without actually having to open them. Interactive notifications are one example, and another is the brand-new widgets available in Notification Center. Apple is a little late to this game— Android has had widgets for years, and users can put them right on their home screens—but at least what we have is both elegant and functional. Getting started takes a little bit of setup, but once you have it down you will be relying less on the grid of icons and swiping right into your favorite widget for quickly accessing what you need. Even though i OS 8 has only been out a few days there are already several great widgets, so be sure to keep your apps updated so you'll have access to widgets as developers roll them out. The only problem you may run into is managing such a long scroll of them once you find all the ones you like. It's time to add some widgets Widgets are enabled by default on i OS 8. To get started, swipe down to the Notification Center, then choose the tab on the left entitled Today. A few of Apple's own selections are already in place, such as the Today Summary, which gives the weather and notifies you of upcoming appointments, Calendar, and Reminders. Move around widgets in the Notification Center. There is also a Calendar widget, traffic conditions, and the ability to add in Apple's Reminders app. You can rearrange, add, or remove any of these by scrolling all the way to the bottom of the list, tapping Edit, and then dragging them to a new order, or pressing the plus and minus icons to add or remove widgets from your list. With that down, it's time to check out some of the better widgets that third-party developers have whipped up. Here is a sampling of what's available, and how this extra functionality can change how you interact with these apps. PCalc Forget searching.
Not to be confused with NSNotification Center part of the Cocoa API. Notification Center is a feature in i OS[1] and OS X[2] that provides an overview of alerts from applications. It displays notifications until the user completes an associated action, rather than requiring instant resolution. Users may choose what applications appear in Notification Center, and how they are handled. Initially released with i OS 5 in October 2011, Notification Center was made available on Macs as part of O ountain Lion in July 2012. Features[edit] Notification Center in O ountain Lion, showing a banner, the Tweet and Post buttons. Notification Center was released in i OS 5 to replace the previous system for dealing with push and local notifications. Instead of interrupting the user with an alert, Notification Center instead displays a banner at the top of the screen. This allows the user to continue using their device, and disappears after a set period of time. All previous notifications are collated into the Notification Center panel, which can be displayed in i OS by dragging down from the status bar, and in OS X by clicking on the notification center button (or using track-pad gestures, swiping from right to left). Notifications may be selected by the user, which redirects the user to the application where the notification was initially created, and marking that alert as read. Once a notification is read, it is removed from the panel. Users may also remove notifications without reading them by deleting individual alerts, or dismissing all of an application's alerts from within the application that is generating them. When an i OS device is locked, new notifications appear on the lock screen, and users may access the application generating an alert by swiping the application's icon with their finger from left to right along the notification. Notification Center on i Phone and i Pod.
Nelson Aguilar 17 K 1 hour ago Follow Probably the most under-utilized feature in i OS 8 is the Notification Center, a powerful tool for quickly viewing app alerts, checking your calendar, reading notes, playing music, and so much more. While there are already hundreds of apps that take advantage of i OS 8's widget feature, there's a whole other world of features that you can add the Notification Center if you have a jailbroken i Pad, i Phone, or i Pod touch. Below are our ten favorite jailbreak tweaks for i OS 8's Notification Center. Hide Me8, from CP Digital Darkroom, allows you to hide UI elements from all across i OS 8, including the Notification Center. You can hide the bottom separator, status bar, and date with the help of a few toggles from the settings page. An easy way to clear up some of the clutter in your Notification Center is to use Steve Rolfe's no NCheader tweak, which hides the app headers. Removing the app headers will not bring the widgets closer together, but will just leave a blank space where the header should be, which I personally prefer. [1] With headers, [2] Without headers Install Steve Rolfe's Chesmieser repo by going to Cydia -> Sources -> Edit -> Add, then entering which is where you'll find the no NCheader tweak. It's annoying having to tap twice in order to clear each section of notifications in your Notification Center, but with One Tap Clear from developer Rave, you can clear each section with a single tap. Previous versions of i OS allowed users to send tweets and post updates to Facebook directly from the Notification Center, until the feature vanished in i OS 8. Share Widget for i OS 8, from autopear, brings back Facebook, Twitter, and other share widgets to the Notification Center. Just tap on an icon to share something, or hold down on it to upload a photo. Add some life to your Notification Center with NC Date.
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