“The Apple iPhone X will only show lockscreen notifications with actual content when it knows you are the one who is watching and if it’s somebody else, they will only see the notification source, but not the notification content itself (which might be sensitive),” Victor H. reports for Phone Arena.
“The future also comes with iOS 11 to earlier iPhones,” Victor reports, “but it’s slightly modified: since you do not have Face ID on those earlier models, you can go into settings and enable showing notifications with content / preview only when the device has been unlocked.”
MacDailyNews Take: Such user control should have been included in Settings with the advent of lockscreen notifications. But, better late than never!
“What iOS did offer up until now was two options,” Victor reports, “which were either to show full lockscreen notifications with content or not show lockscreen notifications at all (to be perfectly exact, the feature was available in Mail and Messages, but nowhere else).”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This is only the tip of the spear.
When the device knows you’re looking at it or even if you’re nearby (within
eyesightsensorsight), there’s a lot that can be accomplished to improve the user experience beyond simply unlocking the device. — MacDailyNews, August 9, 2017SEE ALSO:
Apple’s next-gen iPhone to intelligently silence audio notifications – August 9, 2017
So does it ‘flip-flop’ between the two lockscreens when you try to show your notification to a friend after viewing it yourself?
It’s likely that it will only populate those boxes once when it wakes… so if you sleep the phone and your friend opens it up, it will not show detail. However, if you looked at it and show your friend, it would show the detail still.
Most likely true. Imagine the can of worms otherwise. 😛
Actually, is that a ‘good’ thing? One more possible security risk that does not need unlocking to view?
Face ID sounds like it will eat your batteries for breakfast.
As in, your battery won’t last past breakfast.