I long for the day when a device upgrade, or major software update, doesn’t leave me wondering what the F people were thinking when they decided on this or that.
Picked up the S9 yesterday. Came with Nougat. Upgraded to Oreo. Everything is fine...except for one iddy bitty MAJOR ISSUE.
On the S7 (Nougat), there were notifications in the pull down shade, and there were also unread badge counts (for email and texts). If you swiped away the notification banner, the unread badge count remained and you would continue to see your number of unread emails or texts. This was useful. If I’m in the car, for example, and I get an email on the S7, I would see the banner (on a wake screen) telling me who it was from, and typically swipe it away. The unread badge count would remain until I actually went into the app and selected the unread email/message. If there were 3 unread emails and I read one, the unread badge count would continue to indicate 2. It was reliable and a very useful way to monitor what you still needed to read/respond to. (You could even mark something unread and that by itself would create/add to in unread badge).
The S9 does away with all of that. There are notification banners and unread badge counts. But if you swipe away even a single notification banner, then the unread badge disappears entirely even though you haven’t read a single email. If you have 10 unread emails, dismissing the notification banner when the 11th e-mail comes in will wipe the badge out completely for all 11 emails. Also, if you don’t touch the notification banner but just go into your email app and open a single email among 10 unreads, that single opening will wipe out the unread badge count completely even though you leave the 9 other emails unread.
Why would they do this? What could possibly be the logic behind Samsung abandoning the old way for this new way?
And most importantly, is there a RELIABLE workaround to reclaim the old functionality, whether via Samsung’s native apps or a 3rd party solution?
Thanks.
Picked up the S9 yesterday. Came with Nougat. Upgraded to Oreo. Everything is fine...except for one iddy bitty MAJOR ISSUE.
On the S7 (Nougat), there were notifications in the pull down shade, and there were also unread badge counts (for email and texts). If you swiped away the notification banner, the unread badge count remained and you would continue to see your number of unread emails or texts. This was useful. If I’m in the car, for example, and I get an email on the S7, I would see the banner (on a wake screen) telling me who it was from, and typically swipe it away. The unread badge count would remain until I actually went into the app and selected the unread email/message. If there were 3 unread emails and I read one, the unread badge count would continue to indicate 2. It was reliable and a very useful way to monitor what you still needed to read/respond to. (You could even mark something unread and that by itself would create/add to in unread badge).
The S9 does away with all of that. There are notification banners and unread badge counts. But if you swipe away even a single notification banner, then the unread badge disappears entirely even though you haven’t read a single email. If you have 10 unread emails, dismissing the notification banner when the 11th e-mail comes in will wipe the badge out completely for all 11 emails. Also, if you don’t touch the notification banner but just go into your email app and open a single email among 10 unreads, that single opening will wipe out the unread badge count completely even though you leave the 9 other emails unread.
Why would they do this? What could possibly be the logic behind Samsung abandoning the old way for this new way?
And most importantly, is there a RELIABLE workaround to reclaim the old functionality, whether via Samsung’s native apps or a 3rd party solution?
Thanks.