A perk from work is that I have an Apple Watch, iPad, Macbook Air, and an iPhone. People who know me probably know how this is pretty much a hell personalised for me to maximise grief. The iPhone is my primary device as it goes everywhere with me as a portal to the internet. The Macbook I use every day as I do all my work coding on it. But the iPad only gets used twice a month because to this day I still struggle to find a way to make it useful. Right now I am typing this post on the iPad just because I haven't used it in a while, but I have to fear that Safari will crash because it loves to do that. And the Apple Watch only gets put on to monitor blood oxygen when I get Covid for the nth time because I'm stuck in Texas.

But today's annoyance is the notifications. Both the iPad and the Watch when they are unlocked for the first time in a week or two, will then spend the next five to ten minutes replaying every damn notification that has come in during the time I have not used them. Each one dropping down from the top running a train upon the screen. All of these notifications which I have been dismissed by either the iPhone or Macbook as I delt with them.

This is the era where vendors want to cram unwanted AI bullshit into everything, despite the fact not even yet having a grasp of data management from the 1970s. Maybe you guys should try graduating basic computer science first? What makes this double offensive is I know all of these devices are constantly chattering to each other both locally and over cloud services. Copy text on Macbook, paste it on the iPhone. Hell even my mouse cursor seamlessly bounces from the Macbook to the iPad just by sliding it over. All of this magic has been achieved and yet the basic building block of iOS, the notification, can't be handled properly?