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Apple's Phone App Finally Supports T9 Dialing in iOS 18
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Why are so many in the Apple community so single minded? Of course you don't understand a feature you've never had... This is a common feature in any device other than iPhones. When I switched to an iPhone 5 years ago, this was one of the harder things for me to adjust to, previously having the T9 lookup for contacts was always so easy and took me awhile to get used to not having.
Cool, you don't need a feature you've never had, I applaud you, but this feature will help many others beside you.
Same goes with many in this community's view on RCS, again saying why add this? Well, that's so cool that you only make friends with people based on them having an iPhone, again I applaud you, but this will benefit many other people other than yourself.
Cool, you don't need a feature you've never had, I applaud you, but this feature will help many others beside you.
Same goes with many in this community's view on RCS, again saying why add this? Well, that's so cool that you only make friends with people based on them having an iPhone, again I applaud you, but this will benefit many other people other than yourself.
Some faceless bureaucrat in the EU probably wanted this change after appointing themselves as head of iOS design and development.
That’s got me curious. Does iOS or iPadOS support reading files off of a USB optical drive? It definitely supports external storage via USB, so it makes me wonder if they’ve got the right drivers for optical (or floppy). I’d assume that it would be read only and probably wouldn’t support audio CDs or video (unless they were encoded in a format iOS supports and burned to a disc as files).
I thought that too back then, until I did all the tests with different devices and read tests that the competition is better in terms of connection
Supposedly no, but it's been a few years since this was asked. Maybe things have changed since then? 🤷♀️
No it’s the software. You will find many test between Android vs apple in therms of connectivity
Just tried it and it works with my LG external CD drive from 2008. Going to try Zip disk next and if that works I might try 3.5 inch floppy as that would be a game changer for my iPad workflow.
I'm also genuinely wondering.
What a cryptic feature.
Made sense in the 90s, but now, who's really gonna type "236" to find "Ben" ? 🤔
If it has drivers for optical drives, it might very well have drivers for external floppy drives. I have my suspicions that Zip disks are probably not supported, though. I just can’t see Apple taking the time to port over macOS Zip disk drivers (assuming macOS still supports Zip disks, even).
Pride comes before the fall. They are probably realizing that all the little reasons why people may prefer Android keep accumulating.
I have an iPhone 11 and 15 as well as a galaxy z flip and s22.
All four of them perform the same for calls. And I have test drove all 4 major is carriers.
It’s not the device. It’s the network.
That’s the thing, though, I just can’t imagine that this is a feature most Android users use, either (unless the Android phone app is so poorly designed that T9 typing is preferable to trying to find a contact). Mostly it would be limited to old timers who used T9 on old Nokias and Motorolas and the like, I’d think.
Siri only supports a limited set of languages, and is quite bad at recognizing names in some (if not most).
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It doesn’t need to be a feature most Android users use. It’s sufficient if most Android users each have some feature they use that keeps them from switching, and T9 being among those. Each of those features may only be used by a minority, but in sum it still keeps a majority from switching.
As a former Android user I’m so happy to see this land in iOS. I got so used to just typing in the names of people in my contacts list from the keypad dial. To this day I instinctively go to the dial to quickly search for a name.
Smart move by Apple to ease the transition for people coming from Android. Thinking about it, iOS 18 brings the overall UX so much closer to Android.
Smart move by Apple to ease the transition for people coming from Android. Thinking about it, iOS 18 brings the overall UX so much closer to Android.
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Think about it - it will be fully privacy. No more carriers snooping around your info. I'm all for it LOL
As I said before, I came from Android, and was flabbergasted by this ommission. In Android, I hardly used the "Contacts" app or "search/spotlight" to call someone or add a new number: this was all done/instigated via the phone app (the latter you can do in iOS). Just try it in a few months with iOS18: huge buttons, so hard to mistype. Especially if you regularly call the same set of people, iOS will probably learn and quickly pull up the right person with only two keypad presses (at least that was the case with Android back then).
Meanwhile, in Apple Music if I search for a song or artist and get one letter wrong it doesn’t show me any results that are remotely close. 🥲