Modern messaging apps bombard users with notifications, creating stress and distraction. While iOS offers some notification management, it lacks granular control—users can't prioritize messages from important contacts while muting others. This forces people to choose between notification overload or potentially missing crucial messages, a problem particularly acute for professionals, caregivers, and anyone needing selective availability.
One approach could be creating a system that lets users designate 1-5 "VIP" contacts whose messages always trigger notifications, while automatically muting all others. Non-VIP messages could appear in a separate inbox that doesn't interrupt focus. The system might offer:
This could particularly benefit professionals needing boss/client availability, caregivers requiring family reachability, or students balancing study focus with emergency contacts.
Current options fall short in different ways:
This concept would provide finer-grained control specifically for messaging, potentially integrating deeper with Apple's ecosystem than third-party solutions.
An MVP could start as a standalone iOS app using Message framework APIs with basic VIP list functionality. Subsequent phases might add:
The system could maintain privacy through on-device processing while offering users unprecedented control over their messaging interruptions.
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