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One UI 5.0 vs iOS 16 – Which has best Notification customization features?
Samsung and Apple have introduced their latest software for their respective Galaxy and iPhone users. Both One UI 5.0 and iOS 16 bring a lot of new features and improvements, and we are going to see which one offers the best functions when it comes to Notification customization.
Notifications are an essential way to maintain at-a-glance insight into the people, messages, and app-related events that matter to them. But just getting notifications and reading them through the notification panel is not enough, we need some more advanced options to maintain our privacy and reduce clutter.
Let’s check out which smartphone brand offers the best Notification customization features – Samsung One UI 5.0 or Apple iOS 16.
One UI 5.0 Notification Customization
Samsung One UI 5.0 brings some notable tweaks to notifications. To begin with, the company has made app icons larger and more colorful in the Notification panel which helps you analyze at a glance which notifications came from which app.
Next, Samsung has brought an excellent feature to provide you with more control over your phone’s notifications, known as Notification permission. With this feature implementation in new software, when you use an app for the first time, it will ask you whether you want to receive notifications from it or not. You can say no to apps if you don’t want them to disturb you by sending worthless notifications.
Another great feature of One UI software is the Notification History which lets you see your cleared notifications so if you have accidentally cleared new notifications from the notification panel, you can still view them to stay aware of any new information.
Aside from these, you can choose which apps send alerts and which don’t, you can block app notifications, enable flash notifications, get notifications on bubble pop-ups, and select notification pop-up style, enable edge lighting, and much more. Meanwhile for privacy, you can also choose whether you want the notification content to show on the Lock screen or not.
iOS 16 Notification Customization
Apple has undoubtedly made its iOS 16 software a bit customizable for iPhone users. The company has also brought some changes to the Notification section. Firstly, iOS 16 has moved notifications to the bottom of the display to reduce clutter on the lock screen.
This move also makes room for the personalization features that you can now set up on your lock screen. Notifications on iPhones still work the same as they do earlier, one can simply swipe up to see them all, interact with them, and more. But there are also new ways to optimize what they do. Apple iOS 16 divides notifications into three different parts:
- Count: You see just a few words on your screen to tell you how many notifications you’ve got, and you have to swipe up to see them.
- Stacks: Notifications by the app are stacked on top of each other, and you can swipe to work through them.
- List: All your notifications in one list, just like they’ve always been.
You can also swipe down the notifications when in Stack or List view to instantly convert them to Count view. This is so handy if users just want to ignore notifications for a while but still want to check them.
One UI 5.0 vs iOS 16 – Notification Customization
I am not disagreeing that Apple’s work for the Notification section is not good. Actually, it’s great! But still, iOS 16 is far behind the customization capabilities of Samsung One UI 5.0 Notifications, and the company needs some more work so that it can walk next to Samsung.