Saturday, March 25, 2017

Two essential Windows 10 Mobile features?

Hi,

About a year ago I had to give up using my Windows phone (Lumia 1520 running W10M) because it didn't have two essential features:

1/ Automatic silencing on calendar events

2/ Repeating audible notifications (e.g. if I missed an SMS)

WP8.1 provides 1/ via Cortana, but bizarrely Microsoft removed that feature in W10M's Cortana. As for 2/, the last time I researched it I found that W10M prohibits any app from seeing notifications from another app (therefore it wasn't possible to write an app that would check for unacknowledged notifications and make a beep). Obviously it should be baked into the OS anyway, as a user-selectable option.

Of course, both are easy to do on Android, which is why I'm using an Android phone.

Has the situation changed since a year ago? Are either of these features available yet?

Thanks!


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