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                 TipBITS: Stop Grouping Reminders Notifications

   Josh Centers

   When I need to be reminded of something, I pick up my iPhone and tell
   Siri to remind me of it at the appointed time. ('Hey Siri, remind me to
   crank the truck at 9 AM.') When the clock strikes that time, the iPhone
   pings me with a notification, which also remains on the Lock screen
   until I complete or clear it.

   (If some task needs to happen soon, but not at a specific time, I still
   schedule it for some time, like 9 AM, on the day I'm most likely to
   complete it. That way the Lock screen notification reminds me of the
   task's existence until I deal with it. If you don't ask to be reminded
   at a particular time, you have to remember to find the task in
   Reminders itself, which defeats the purpose of asking for a reminder.)

   But lately, I've been missing a lot of important notifications.

   The culprit was notification grouping, a feature introduced in iOS 12
   to stack notifications in Notification Center so more apps'
   notifications could fit onscreen. Before that, a chatty Messages thread
   or Slack conversation could dominate the Lock screen, hiding more
   important notifications from Reminders and Calendar. That's a worthy
   goal, but if I had more than one Reminders notification on a given day,
   I would have to tap the stack to see anything beyond the top one.
   That's not difficult, but the stack prevented the Reminders
   notifications from serving their purpose of continuing to remind me of
   what I needed to accomplish.

   Thankfully, you can turn off this feature for any app, including
   Reminders. Go to Settings > Notifications > Reminders > Notification
   Grouping (at the bottom of the screen) and choose Off. That prevents
   iOS from stacking your Reminders notifications, so you see each one
   individually.

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