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iPhone Notifications - Mark as Read

Former Member
Former Member over 9 years ago
Sorry if this was already asked/answered... And, I'd guess this is a limitation somewhere in iOS...

tactix Bravo, using 7.0 beta, and iOS 9.3

When I "clear" a notification on my watch, whether a text or email, the notification on my iPhone is simply dismissed. I have to then take extra steps on my iPhone to find that message to respond to or mark as read. And, when I do, I suspect because the message is still not read, the notifications send all over again to my watch.

Why doesn't or can't "clearing" the notification mark the message as read on the iPhone?

Thanks!
  • 0 over 9 years ago
    Why doesn't or can't "clearing" the notification mark the message as read on the iPhone?
    Clearing a message notification in the Notification Centre in iOS does not in fact mark the message as read, either. Surely you knew that already?

    Tapping on a message notification in the Notification Centre implicitly clears the notification, and activates the associated app on the iOS device so the user could actually read the message. Reading the text in the NC itself is not considered having read the message, and tapping on the ⊗ for the section heading inside the NC, which then turns into a (CLEAR) button for the user to confirm the operation, does not mark the message(s) associated with the notification(s) as read in the associated app.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    :-) I guess I phrased my question poorly. I just wanted to understand where the limitation was, whether Garmin or iOS. It would be helpful to be able to choose the action that occurs on the phone (e.g. whether the notification is just dismissed as it is today, or marked Read, or Deleted) when a notification is acted on on the watch.
  • 0 over 9 years ago
    I just wanted to understand where the limitation was, whether Garmin or iOS.
    The limitation is in that events (including receipt of messages in particular apps) and notifications are logically different things, irrespective of whether the user see them as practically equivalent.

    Let's say you receive a message (“Could you please pick up a two-litre bottle of wool bleach from Woolworths on your way home? It's on special this week.” from user MaryLittleLamb) as a user of the OohTalkCleanToMe app. The app decides what goes into the content of the notification – perhaps taking into account some user-specified settings if the app developer so allows, and perhaps not – and neither Apple/iOS nor Garmin has a say in that. The notification content could convey:
    • You received a new message.
    • You (now) have three unread messages.
    • You received a new message from MaryLittleLamb.
    • MaryLittleLamb said, “Could you please pick up…”
    • You haven't read your messages in 48 hours. Isn't it high time for you to do so?
    singularly on in combination, without warranting any assumption that the entire text of the received message is contained in the notification. (From my testing as a user, each notification that get sent to my Garmin Forerunner 235 can only contain 700 characters of content.)

    You can acknowledge a notification (and dismiss it and/or mark it as read), but not all notifications correspond to receipt of incoming messages from other parties that can also has a logical state of having been read.

    It would be helpful to be able to choose the action that occurs on the phone (e.g. whether the notification is just dismissed as it is today, or marked Read, or Deleted) when a notification is acted on on the watch.
    Remember it's not a fully-fledged smartphone you're wearing.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    Well, first, thank you for taking the time to reply.

    I think I understand that each app is different and that this isn't a full-fledged smartwatch. In fact, it's what I enjoy about it. But, let me ask one last question (prefacing that I'm neither a developer or programmer):

    Can Garmin handle different responses to notifications back to the device, generally iOS or Android, if the app provided handling for different actions in their API (and no way to include this for the myriad of apps out there but each ecosystem [iOS/Android] has a basic set [messaging/email])? Of course, my question is a little silly if that's the definition of the notification capability, notify/dismiss only ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Thanks again!
  • 0 over 9 years ago
    Can Garmin handle different responses to notifications back to the device, generally iOS or Android, if the app provided handling for different actions in their API
    Not being a developer in such areas of IT myself, I can only venture a guess that when the user is presented with selectable actions in response to notifications in the Notification Centre on his/her mobile device – e.g. on my Android phone, Call and Reply (beside the implied tap-to-Read in the native Messages app) in response to a notification of a new incoming TXT message – the actions call on APIs that are only accessible by apps on the same device. In the case of my example, Call is an action in the native Phone app's API, and both Read and Reply are actions in the native Messages app's API, that are accessible to the Notification Centre as an app running on the same mobile device and operating system. It would make no sense for a logically remote receiver of notifications, e.g. a Garmin watch, to be able to trigger the Reply action in the Messages app on a phone, in response to a notification of a received TXT message.

    I'd be happy to be proven wrong and enlightened by other forum members who are actually developers in that sort of technology, though.