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Monday 28 July 2014

iPhone could automatically silence alerts when you exercise, Apple patent hints

Apple patent (DND while excercising 001)


Notifications on mobile devices are both a curse and a blessing. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would diminish the value in receiving a timely notification about an important event while on the go.


On the other hand, virtually every app wants to send notifications these days. Even though iOS does offer some granularity as to the times of day when these alerts are allowed to buzz your device, by no measure is this sufficient.


An Apple patent publicized by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last Thursday gives an insight into Apple’s research efforts that would automatically enable a Do Not Disturb mode (added in iOS 6) when the device has determined that a user is working out, saving you a few taps…... Read the rest of this post here




"iPhone could automatically silence alerts when you exercise, Apple patent hints" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.

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