YouVersion · User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged
A friend’s new prayer among badges and friendships
The Notifications list, newest first, mixes “You earned the Daily Refresh Badge”, new friendships and likes, invitations to read a plan together, “New Prayer from [a friend]: ‘Ukraine’” and “New Prayer from YouVersion: ‘A Prayer for Our World’”. Names and photos of friends are blurred here.
Design takeaway
A shared prayer arrives in the same stream as badges and friendship likes. A request from a friend may deserve a quieter, separate place, and the person sharing should know it will appear in friends’ notifications.
What this example establishes
The Notifications list, newest first, mixes “You earned the Daily Refresh Badge”, new friendships and likes, invitations to read a plan together, “New Prayer from [a friend]: ‘Ukraine’” and “New Prayer from YouVersion: ‘A Prayer for Our World’”. Names and photos of friends are blurred here.
Limits and further verification
A still image shows one interface state. Gestures, timing, accessibility, persistence and what happens next were not tested. App version not recorded.
Provenance
- Platform
- iOS app · device model not recorded
- Image origin
- User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged
- Source or capture date
- Captured 18 September 2025 · from embedded image metadata
- Reviewed
- 6 October 2026
- Version
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