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Looks like I finally moved my dad from an iPod touch to an iPhone SE at the right time. (He was convinced, for whatever reason, he couldn’t figure out how to u

Looks like I finally moved my dad from an iPod touch to an iPhone SE at the right time. (He was convinced, for whatever reason, he couldn’t figure out how to use an iPhone…despite he uses an iPod touch, and an iPad, and quite fluently. And within 1 day he was delighted, because he finally had something approximating a useful camera in his pocket.)

m463 4y ago
I liked that ipods were "safe". I think a lot of non tech people would REALLY benefit from a setting to "confirm before dialing" in ios. For example, touching ANYTHING in the phone app will immediately dial that number. That leads to real problems with inexperienced users, who then get the mindset that they're not good with tech. To be clear - the blame here is 100% on apple. Most people I know have butt dialed. I consider myself highly aware of my phone, yet have accidentally called back spam callers. yikes!
- tehnub 4y ago
  Yes, yes. I also would consider myself highly aware of my phone, and I have called back spam callers I don't know how many times from both the "Recents" tab and the notification screen. I'm generally impressed with the usability of Apple's default apps, so this one stands out. You'd really think the "Phone" app on the "iPhone" would be a bit better thought out.
  - perardi 4y ago
    And the thing is: this is better than it used to be. At least every single phone call doesn’t interrupt at the absolute highest level of priority and take over your screen entirely. Up until…iOS 14?…you didn’t really have a choice to not deal with an incoming call while using the phone: a call immediately took over.
    - Headwig 4y ago
      Made it really hard to ignore my friends and family
  - jdminhbg 4y ago
    I think the problem is that the Phone app has a lot of legacy behavior from the early days of the iPhone when people actually used the phone functionality. As the sibling commenter notes, they only recently changed the incoming call notification to not take over the entire screen regardless of what else you were doing. It's just not totally fixed yet.

m463 4y ago

I liked that ipods were "safe". I think a lot of non tech people would REALLY benefit from a setting to "confirm before dialing" in ios. For example, touching ANYTHING in the phone app will immediately dial that number. That leads to real problems with inexperienced users, who then get the mindset that they're not good with tech. To be clear - the blame here is 100% on apple. Most people I know have butt dialed. I consider myself highly aware of my phone, yet have accidentally called back spam callers. yikes!

tehnub 4y ago
Yes, yes. I also would consider myself highly aware of my phone, and I have called back spam callers I don't know how many times from both the "Recents" tab and the notification screen. I'm generally impressed with the usability of Apple's default apps, so this one stands out. You'd really think the "Phone" app on the "iPhone" would be a bit better thought out.
- perardi 4y ago
  And the thing is: this is better than it used to be. At least every single phone call doesn’t interrupt at the absolute highest level of priority and take over your screen entirely. Up until…iOS 14?…you didn’t really have a choice to not deal with an incoming call while using the phone: a call immediately took over.
  - Headwig 4y ago
    Made it really hard to ignore my friends and family
- jdminhbg 4y ago
  I think the problem is that the Phone app has a lot of legacy behavior from the early days of the iPhone when people actually used the phone functionality. As the sibling commenter notes, they only recently changed the incoming call notification to not take over the entire screen regardless of what else you were doing. It's just not totally fixed yet.