The one and only feature that is available in my old phone – a Motorola Razr – and that I miss the most in my iPhone is the missed call notification. You leave your iPhone and go for a quick coffee or a bath and you miss an important call. When you are back, iPhone does nothing to let you know that there is a missed call. You will not know about the missed call until you check it yourself. My old phone used to give a voice alert every 5 or 15 minutes if there are missed calls that I haven’t checked.
iPhone does give you an alert if there are SMS messages to be read. But it alerts you only two more times. We badly need the missed call notifications and there should be a way to configure if it should alert only 2 times or until you clear them.
Another important thing that iPhone badly needs is a summary screen for notifications. Push notifications are great. But the serious limitation of push notifications is that you only see the latest push notification on home screen. If I have many apps that push notifications and I fail to check the phone for few hours, I would easily miss many push notifications. How about providing a consolidated alert such as “You have 5 push notifications” that directs you to a screen where you can see the list of all notifications that you have got ?
Badge numbers for apps is a nice feature. But is there a simple way to see all apps that have badge numbers ? Let’s say I have few appointments in Calendar app, new mails in Mail app and some things to do in my To-do list app. I have to check all my screens for apps with badges if I want to check all apps with badge notifications now. There should be an easy way to see the list of apps that have badge notifications so that I can address them now.
I’m sure there are hundred more things that are missing if you check with everyone. But I wanted to highlight few of the issues that are not discussed elsewhere. Add your missing features to the list in the comments.
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