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What are you talking about. Of course it has missed call notifications. Always has.

by 2023throwawayy 3y ago

ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
Nope. It has missed-TEXT notifications. After years of complaints about the lack of missed-call notifications, what does Apple do? Add them for TEXTS only. You can have them repeat up to 10 times. Now go to the nearly-identical settings screen for Phone. NONE. Here's a post about it. Older, but still true today: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-iphones-biggest.html https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-...
- block_dagger 3y ago
  What are you talking about
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    Who are you asking? It must not be me, since there's an elaborate explanation (not that it's needed) above.
    - gainda 3y ago
      to be fair your original unedited comment was so vague no one got it until you clarified with the blog post. so maybe there is something for you to take away there
    - K7PJP 3y ago
      > since there's an elaborate explanation (not that it's needed) Clearly the explanationn is needed. Most of us didn't understand what you meant. After grasping what you're asking for, I get your request, and I think it'd be nice if Apple implemented this for you and others, but I don't think iOS is broken, nor would I enable such an option if it were implemented – it wouldn't solve a problem for me. You might try to understand that you are in a minority in wanting this, and that the current behavior is actually acceptable for the vast majority of iPhone users.
      - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
        I don't buy that. It's just a tiny number of people who 1. Take the time to speak up about it 2. Speak up about it in a forum that you're aware of Another problem is the diminishing number of people over time who were exposed to more-functional products that were standard in the past. The obvious feature requested here was present on millions of telephonic devices for decades, including cell phones. Android phones have it. But the iPhone is now 15 years old, like many of its users. The Web is rife with requests for this feature. I posted a tiny sampling of them above.
- codetrotter 3y ago
  Ah, you mean the feature where it plings again after 2 minutes? Yeah that one is for texts only so far. But lost calls show up as notifications too. It’s just that they won’t pling again.
- function_seven 3y ago
  Are you talking about repeated alerts? “Missed Call” is a notification I regularly see in my Notification Center, but it does only make an alert sound once: immediately after the call stops ringing.
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    You see it. Not hear it. And you only see it if you happen to be staring at your phone. So yes, this is the whole problem. The fact that Apple finally added audible notifications, but only for texts, is just infantile pettiness on their part. Truly incredible, since the settings screens are otherwise nearly identical.
    - function_seven 3y ago
      Yeah, after reading the link you posted above, I get what you're talking about. Fully agree. I should be able to select any arbitrary notification and enable repeated alerts for it. Not just calls or texts or whatever, but anything that's important to me not to miss.
      - coldpie 3y ago
        What's really baffling is that iOS hides older notifications after some amount of time, or screen unlockings, or something. I like to leave notifications around so I can remember to handle them later when I unlock my phone ("oh yeah, I need to read/respond to that email"). Instead iOS just removes them from my lock screen so I don't see them when unlocking and I forget they exist. They're still there--you can swipe up from the bottom to bring back your hidden notifications--but that requires you to remember they're there, which is the whole reason I didn't dismiss them in the first place. iOS's notification system is shockingly bad. Android is leagues ahead here, both in features & configurability.
    - mcphage 3y ago
      I think, given the difficulty you're having getting people to understand what exactly is the feature that you're missing, undercuts the idea that it's an essential feature which is inexcusable to not support.

What are you talking about. Of course it has missed call notifications. Always has.

Nope. It has missed-TEXT notifications. After years of complaints about the lack of missed-call notifications, what does Apple do? Add them for TEXTS only. You can have them repeat up to 10 times. Now go to the nearly-identical settings screen for Phone. NONE. Here's a post about it. Older, but still true today: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-iphones-biggest.html https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-...

block_dagger 3y ago
What are you talking about
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  Who are you asking? It must not be me, since there's an elaborate explanation (not that it's needed) above.
  - gainda 3y ago
    to be fair your original unedited comment was so vague no one got it until you clarified with the blog post. so maybe there is something for you to take away there
  - K7PJP 3y ago
    > since there's an elaborate explanation (not that it's needed) Clearly the explanationn is needed. Most of us didn't understand what you meant. After grasping what you're asking for, I get your request, and I think it'd be nice if Apple implemented this for you and others, but I don't think iOS is broken, nor would I enable such an option if it were implemented – it wouldn't solve a problem for me. You might try to understand that you are in a minority in wanting this, and that the current behavior is actually acceptable for the vast majority of iPhone users.
    - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
      I don't buy that. It's just a tiny number of people who 1. Take the time to speak up about it 2. Speak up about it in a forum that you're aware of Another problem is the diminishing number of people over time who were exposed to more-functional products that were standard in the past. The obvious feature requested here was present on millions of telephonic devices for decades, including cell phones. Android phones have it. But the iPhone is now 15 years old, like many of its users. The Web is rife with requests for this feature. I posted a tiny sampling of them above.
codetrotter 3y ago
Ah, you mean the feature where it plings again after 2 minutes? Yeah that one is for texts only so far. But lost calls show up as notifications too. It’s just that they won’t pling again.
function_seven 3y ago
Are you talking about repeated alerts? “Missed Call” is a notification I regularly see in my Notification Center, but it does only make an alert sound once: immediately after the call stops ringing.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  You see it. Not hear it. And you only see it if you happen to be staring at your phone. So yes, this is the whole problem. The fact that Apple finally added audible notifications, but only for texts, is just infantile pettiness on their part. Truly incredible, since the settings screens are otherwise nearly identical.
  - function_seven 3y ago
    Yeah, after reading the link you posted above, I get what you're talking about. Fully agree. I should be able to select any arbitrary notification and enable repeated alerts for it. Not just calls or texts or whatever, but anything that's important to me not to miss.
    - coldpie 3y ago
      What's really baffling is that iOS hides older notifications after some amount of time, or screen unlockings, or something. I like to leave notifications around so I can remember to handle them later when I unlock my phone ("oh yeah, I need to read/respond to that email"). Instead iOS just removes them from my lock screen so I don't see them when unlocking and I forget they exist. They're still there--you can swipe up from the bottom to bring back your hidden notifications--but that requires you to remember they're there, which is the whole reason I didn't dismiss them in the first place. iOS's notification system is shockingly bad. Android is leagues ahead here, both in features & configurability.
  - mcphage 3y ago
    I think, given the difficulty you're having getting people to understand what exactly is the feature that you're missing, undercuts the idea that it's an essential feature which is inexcusable to not support.