The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Jake]

It got super old, super fast. I mean i always have my phone in my pocket or on the table next to me so it was really annoying and redundant to have my tablet going off too when I got a text.

Apple manages to figure out which device you're using and send notifications there. So, if I'm actively using my iPad (screen on, Facebooking or fapping or whatever) and get a text, it'll have the iPad make the "new message" noise. My iPhone screen will still light up and show "John Smith - iMessage" but will not vibrate or make noise, because I wasn't using the phone most recently.

It seems that if both devices have their screens off, the iPad will default to "no noise" and the iPhone will default to whatever buzz/noise setting I have selected phone-wide.

I think they call it "Continuity" - the only weirdness I experienced was when I got a phone call as Continuity will let you pick up calls on your iPad or Mac. My iPad was streaming a Top Gear episode to my AppleTV. Somehow it decided that the best behavior was to pause the show and ring the iPad and iPhone together. But, because the iPad was streaming... it really made my phone and my surround sound start ringing.