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0 pointsm4631y ago0 comments

My mother got her first iphone years ago and was just petrified of the phone app.

I couldn't blame her. You touch ANYTHING, even the spam caller in recent calls, and it immediately calls.

why oh why can't there be a setting - on by default - confirm before dialing?

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It’s not the specific solution you want (and that would be a good one to have) but one option might be enabling the touch accommodations in the accessibility settings and increasing the touch delay slightly so that it takes a more deliberate touch to activate. Downside is that it applies across the whole system and applies to typing on the keyboard too

newaccount741y ago

It won't help at all. The problem is that Apple seems to hate explicit buttons, so you never know what tapping something will do. Here's an example in the phone app:

- in the contacts tab, tapping a contact will show details

- in the call list tab, tapping a contact will call them

There is no way to know ahead of time. You have to try it out, and then remember that the two tabs behave differently.

I have accidentally called people when I just wanted to look at their contact details more than once, and I've been using an iPhone for 15 years or so.

actionfromafar1y ago

I mean, the horizontal middle of the screen could be "dead" and a call only only initiated to the left or right.

Or whatever. There are many solutions and they chose to go for one of the most frustrating designs possible.

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