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My elderly parents don’t answer the phone anymore due to all the scams. Hospital and medical offices calls all go to voicemail. They do answer FaceTime. Even wi
by rawgabbit 2mo ago
My elderly parents don’t answer the phone anymore due to all the scams. Hospital and medical offices calls all go to voicemail. They do answer FaceTime. Even with this protocol they still struggle because iOS added focus time and it keeps nagging about turning it on. Soon we will lockdown their phones with Assistive Access mode. TLDR scams and hostile UX have made mobile phones unusable.
- butvacuum 2mo agoI turned focus time off- and have'nt heard from it in so long I had to look up what you were talking about.
- lostlogin 2mo ago> TLDR scams and hostile UX have made mobile phones unusable. I’m guess that I’m in too much of a backwater, but here in New Zealand I couldn’t tell you the last time I got a spam call and have probably had <5 ever. I’ve had a few spam sms messages, but these are also rare.
- dredmorbius 2mo agoNew Zealand is amongst the countries which fare pretty well, averaging about 1 spam call/month. Rates vary considerably worldwide, Brazil peaks at 29. And within countries rates vary considerably by individual, with some people reporting virtually no calls, others many per day. As with much else in technology and mass communications, individual experience vary hugely. See my earlier comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131195>. Citing "Robocalls: A Worldwide or US-only Problem? Analyzing Spam and Fraud in International Phone Calls" (30 Jun 2026) <https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31790 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31790> and a Hiya report <https://work.hiya.com/hubfs/2025/Global%20Call%20Threat%20Report_2025Q2.pdf https://work.hiya.com/hubfs/2025/Global%20Call%20Threat%20Re...> (PDF).
- lostlogin 2mo agoThanks for this.