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It's interesting that the controversy is completely centered around the iPhone. The behavior described for mute is exactly how Android's alarm app works as well
by kemayo 15y ago
It's interesting that the controversy is completely centered around the iPhone. The behavior described for mute is exactly how Android's alarm app works as well. So it's not Apple going it alone in some quixotic quest to enforce their own twisted idea of how this should work on users in defiance of the rest of the industry.
I'm delighted with this behavior, because it perfectly meets one use case of mine: I want to set my phone to silent mode when I go to sleep and have it stop making notification sounds, but still beep to wake me up in the morning.
- gry 15y agoI have my iPhone on vibrate all the time and use it for an alarm. I get in to trouble when I turn the volume down. I would expect to hear about someone who missed something important because the phone wasn't audible if it were the other way. On the other hand, it would only affect those in the future, not those in the present.
- kalleboo 15y agoThe Android alarm actually has an option in settings to choose if you want the alarm to override silent or not.
- kemayo 15y agoNow you mention it, I vaguely remember seeing that. The overriding is the default though, right?