How to make the iOS notification system even better

Conventional iOS notifications are designed to quickly draw attention to what is happening in your application. However, you can make them more user-friendly, smart, helpful and not so intrusive. In this article you will learn how.

As we have repeatedly wrote, Notice - is evil. They distract you from the real world and are constantly pulled for any reason. But why do people do not isolate them?

The answer is obvious: people are afraid to miss important information for them. Afraid to miss something important, and in return receive a permanent shaft unnecessary messages. Would not it be great if there were intelligent notification, which are able to filter out only the really valuable information and not disturb us for nothing. And this way of eating. We are talking about the application IFTTT for iOS.

What are the advantages of this solution:

1. You only need one application for all notifications. That is, there is no need to install client each service to receive notification of it. For example, if you want to receive the latest sports news, it can be done without any additional software.

2. Fine-tuning of notifications. Usually, you do not ask too much, what do you want to be notified. With IFTTT you can set up notifications only for events of interest to you. For example, you can receive from the social network Facebook is only what really interests you.

3. Receive notifications, even in cases when it is not provided. For example, some applications are able to weather warn of rain or sudden temperature changes. You can enable notifications about the fog, ice, heat and any other monitor the weather indicator.

Thus, IFTTT app can act as a center of notifications to all sources and deprives the need to tinker with each application separately. Among other things, this will help to slightly increase the operation time of the smartphone battery.

How to configure notifications using IFTTT

Make it very simple. First of all, you need to install the application on your IFTTT mobile device.

1. Open IFTTT and click on the icon to create a new recipe in the upper right corner.
2. tapnite Channels and find iOS Notifications.
3. press Activate and follow the instructions.

After that, you need to choose the channels and events that will trigger the appearance of the notification. Make it easy, because IFTTT offers integration with the most popular network services, including, Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and many other.

Here's an example, several features that you can implement this method.

Receive email alerts only on special letters

Notifications of new messages really are sometimes necessary, especially if you are expecting an important letter. But because of this, we have to put up posts about all this spam, fills up our mailbox. The output can be found in this recipe, which will notify you of new messages only from a specific sender.

The weather at the time of awakening

Weather forecast need exactly when you are going to work, but not before or after. So use this recipe to get it at certain times. You can also set up notifications for certain natural disasters such as precipitation, temperature, visibility, and so on.

Reminder to turn off Wi-Fi when leaving the house

Turning off the wireless network at a time when you do not need, can significantly extend the life of your device. To do this, use the recipe that will remind you to turn off WiFi when out of the house exit.

Set recurring reminders

If there is any thing that you need to do at regular intervals, such as once a month to pay for an apartment or to call mom on Fridays, it is possible to organize timely reminders through this prescription.

Getting certain notifications from social networks

This is exactly what we wrote a little higher. Any social network seeks to fill us the maximum number of notifications about different events. With IFTTT you can get only what really interests you. For example, if a particular user has added a photo to Instagram, someone tagged you on Facebook, and so on.

We hope that after reading this article you will be able to get to work on the notification, and not to subordinate their lives constantly demand something from you smartphone.