Let’s just say it like it is: notifications in iOS suck.
There are five things I routinely am getting notifications from: iCal alarms, reminders I set in Due, text messages, DMs from Twitter, Voicemails.
What irks me most about messages are two things:
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Text messages have to be responded to right away or else marked as read. If I want to ignore the text message so it doesn’t keep buzzing I don’t want it to be marked as read.
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iCal alarms that go off on my iPad, iPhone, and Mac at the same time. I can think of two ways to fix this: (a) the devices know when they are on the same Wi-Fi network and then just one device displays the alarm; or (b) give me the option to set a default device that is the only one that ever displays the alarm.