Jason Snell: 7 iPhone features I’d like to see in iOS 12

Thoughtful post from Jason Snell for Tom’s Guide, with some interesting suggestions for iOS 12.

One section focuses on Notification Center:

Notification Center on iOS is kind of a mess. It’s time for an overhaul. App notifications should be grouped together, with more opportunities to act on notifications directly from the notifications list. Clearing all notifications should be an obvious feature, and one that’s available even on devices without 3D Touch.

I’d add this: Consider requiring a longer tap to jump from a notification to the app tied to that notification.

Why? I frequently find myself going to tap on something toward the top of the screen and, just as I’m about to make contact, a notification appears and I end up tapping the notification instead, launching myself out of my app. If a bit of a long press was required to respond to a notification, my simple tap would be ignored by the notification and I could dismiss it and return to my tap-happiness.