The lack of notification center presents a problem in Windows Phone,
as toast notifications simply disappear after they are shown, and the only way to know you have something to attend to is a Live Tile that you have to set up on your phone's Start Screen.
Not exact matches
The little
toast notification shows up just
as the brightness drops on its own in the middle of the game you're playing, and when the system cools down you are once again allowed to control the screen brightness on your own.
Inline progress bar for
notifications (PC): Based on your feedback, app developers can now send
toast notifications with a progress indicator to show progress to the user, such
as download progress, exercise progress, etc..
If you find some
notifications useful, such
as calendar events, but you don't want a
toast notification for every Facebook «Like» or new e-mail you receive, you can turn them off on a per - app basis.
The new app, which starts its rollout in the Windows Store today, appears to be a UWP web app with a few Windows 10 integrations such
as a Live Tile and
toast notifications.
Acting
as a hub for the
toast notifications and alerts related to the UWP apps installed on your PC and other system apps, Action Center -LSB-...]
You can do the same, according to Microsoft, with new texts and other messages that appear
as so - called «
toast»
notifications at the top of the screen.
Other Microsoft representatives that The Verge has talked to at Build this week have pointed towards Live Tiles
as a way to display
notifications, but it's clear that Microsoft is considering a system to aggregate
toast notifications for a quick overview.
Acting
as a hub for the
toast notifications and alerts related to the UWP apps installed on your PC and other system apps, Action Center provides you the quick overview of what's going on in the world of your apps and programs.
You can even expand
Toast notifications when they come in
as they too have a the same down / up arrow.
- Marking a message
as read from a
toast notification will reduce the tile count on the application tile if you have live tiles enabled
[See our earlier hands - on video] A cursory look of the app shows no major changes to the UI, but the big new feature is the ability to receive Direct Messages and Mentions
as pushed «
toast»
notifications (those at the top of the screen) and Home (live tile)
notifications...
In addition, the Action Center also houses the
Notification Center, where users can see all the missed incoming
Toast notifications,
as well
as...
Additionally, a battery
toast will alert users when charge is low,
as well
as a
notification upon pairing.
As an alternative, users can reply to messages and dismiss alarms and reminders directly from the
toast notifications, without opening the main app.