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Eso

macrumors 68020
Original poster
Aug 14, 2008
2,027
927
What are the top 10 things that you use your iPhone for? It doesn't have to be in order of most you use it for most frequently. I don't mean your top 10 apps. I mean the activities that you do with your phone.

Here's what I use it for most often:

  1. Surf the web
  2. Set alarms
  3. Read my email
  4. Listen to music
  5. Track my workouts
  6. Text
  7. Find location/number of a business
  8. Make a call
  9. Check new DVD releases
  10. Navigate with GPS
 

iRetired

macrumors 6502a
Apr 21, 2012
625
104
WNY
In order of use:

Make & return calls
Send, read & answer my email
Read news & entertainment blogs
Take pictures
Show pictures to family & friends
Update social apps & post pictures
Listen to music
Play games
Watch videos
Banter with Siri

Yes, I realize some of those have multiple parts.
 

tymaster50

Suspended
Oct 3, 2012
2,833
58
Oregon
light browsing when I'm not on laptop
texting
music sometimes
the occasional video
instagram
playing some apps
phone calls sometime
pictures of my baby neice
reading tech news
flashlight if I'm in the dark
 

stonyboys

macrumors 6502
Oct 16, 2012
323
3
I think I've spent more time talking with siri than I have on the phone with other people. Web browsing, texting and whatsapp are my most used things I'd say.
 

sundog925

macrumors 6502a
Dec 19, 2011
948
971
Ok, I'll bite.

1. iTunes Match
2. Texting
3. Checking facebook (i know you said no apps, but cmon!)
4. Play with Siri
5. Watch Videos
6. Check MR!
7. Make my own ringtones
8. Test Speed of LTE in different places
9. E-Mail
10. Phone Calls
 

QuarterSwede

macrumors G3
Oct 1, 2005
9,778
2,025
Colorado Springs, CO
I do everything with it. I almost never use my MacBook anymore (I'm talking maybe twice a month) but since you want a top 10:

Read News/RSS
Listen to Podcasts/Music
Text/Calls/FaceTime
Keep in touch with old friends
Take/Edit/Upload Photos/Video
Browse the web
Alarms
Reminders
Navigation
Play Games
 
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darster

Suspended
Aug 25, 2011
1,703
1
:p


1. Porn
2. Porn
3. Porn
4. Make a call
5. Porn
6. Porn
7. Porn
8. Text
9. Porn
10 Porn

:p
 

Confuzzzed

macrumors 68000
Aug 7, 2011
1,630
0
Liverpool, UK
Music, photography & productivity are key ones for me. Evernote, Tripit and dictation in particular for productivity.

Also use it significantly for FaceTime with family overseas. Twitter. Weather. Maps. News. Apps (be it eBay, Mapmyrun or Tapatalk).

Light browsing.
 

mushtama

macrumors member
Feb 14, 2012
54
0
1. Texting/whatsapp-ing
2. Facebook-ing
3. Listening to music
4. Browsing the web
5. Calls
6. Checking/ responding to email
7. Alarm clock
8. Using calender for lecture timetable
9. Taking photos/videos
10. Using it as a nice paper weight for when the battery runs out ;) (which is often!!!)
 

KittyToy

macrumors 6502
Sep 6, 2007
441
23
Davenport
1. Text/iMessage
2. TV shows/Movies
3. Chat apps
4. Macrumos
5. Web surfing/ Googling
6. Online shopping
7. eBay
8. Games
9. Phone calls
10. Skeet shooting
 

Sedrick

macrumors 68030
Nov 10, 2010
2,596
26
4S here. Keeping in mind how small a 2" wide screen is.

  • Music
  • Camera
  • Phone
  • Text
  • Reddit
  • G Maps
  • iBooks
 

nharrietha

macrumors member
Oct 17, 2012
70
0
Canada
1. Play/Record music (Garageband, iKMedia, iRig)
2. Listen to music
3. Email
4. Watch movies/Netflix/Youtube
5. Play games
6. Surf web
7. Take photos/videos
8. Obviously use it as a phone to text, call, etc.
9. Laugh at Fandroids, lol jk ;)
10. Look at it's beautiful design :cool:

I'm missing so much. My 9 and 10 also proves that I was short on thinking.
 

Beeplance

macrumors 68000
Jul 29, 2012
1,564
500
On my data-only iPhone, with 1) being the most frequent & 10) being the least,

1) Heavy web browsing (Macrumors & soshified forums)
2) watching YouTube videos on Jasmine
3) checking new/top apps in the App Store
4) whatsapp
5) checking mail
6) twitter with Tweetbot
7) Facebook
8) checking eBay
9) Google Maps
10) adding calender events.
 

Brown Trout

macrumors member
Mar 6, 2011
84
2
In order:
Mail
Texts
Documents to Go (Word, Excel)
Finance apps like WSJ, AMEX and Schwab
Travel: AA and Marriott
Banking
Maps and navigation, Waze
News & the Web
Phone
Clock & alarms
Movies when on the plane
 

harcosparky

macrumors 68020
Jan 14, 2008
2,055
2
Check email
Texting ( because it won't make voice calls - which is why I probably will dump it this week in favor of something else )
Extremely light browsing

Soon it will be demoted to " iPod Touch "
 

Eso

macrumors 68020
Original poster
Aug 14, 2008
2,027
927
I'm missing so much. My 9 and 10 also proves that I was short on thinking.

Oh don't worry, I really don't think that most people use their devices for too many different things on a regular basis

3. Checking facebook (i know you said no apps, but cmon!)

Don't worry, facebooking is a thing

1. Music
2. Apps
3. Texting
4. Phone

Can you elaborate on 2? What sorts of things do you do with apps?
 

Sital

macrumors 68020
May 31, 2012
2,082
816
New England
1. Texting
2. Phone
3. Email
4. Calendar
5. Games
6. Twitter
7. Weather
8. Music
9. Other apps
10. Web browsing (only if I have to on phone)
 

Adutrumque

macrumors 65816
Mar 8, 2012
1,438
2
Sweden
Music, photography & productivity are key ones for me. Evernote, Tripit and dictation in particular for productivity.

Also use it significantly for FaceTime with family overseas. Twitter. Weather. Maps. News. Apps (be it eBay, Mapmyrun or Tapatalk).

Light browsing.


I read phornography.

Is that normal?
 
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