Record your voicemail message to say you have DND on. Save you having to explain all the time.
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Do you use the ringer switch?
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Record your voicemail message to say you have DND on. Save you having to explain all the time.
I have a list of favorites - wife, parents, siblings, boss, and a friend --- and DND is set to allow calls from favorites. So if there is an emergency, I tell them to give me a call instead of a Telegram message (which is how most of everyone I know communicates with me).
But I only turn off the mute switch when my wife isn't with me. So this is primarily for her only. Otherwise 99% of the time throughout the year, mute is on.
But I only turn off the mute switch when my wife isn't with me. So this is primarily for her only. Otherwise 99% of the time throughout the year, mute is on.
The one thing (ONE THING!) I miss from my old old old Galaxy S3 was the Shush app for Android. I wish the iPhone had it.
the mandate for design of this appliance included non-negotiable hardware elements for core features. These would make the phone intuitive for the most novice of users. 1) physical home button, 2) physical volume keys, 3) physical mute switch, 4) physical power button. The mute switch is as much about ease of checking its status as it is ease of enabling/disabling. A quick glance at the side of the phone confirms it is muted. Even in a pocket or a purse, you can physically tell if the phone is muted without removing it.
I would prefer having an option to assign the switch’s effect (similar to what was on iPads up to the Air 2). For iPads this switch could be used as mute or the rotation disabler. On the iPhone I would chose the pepper spray as the OP suggested.
I always have my phone on silent but find myself constantly turning orientation lock on and off on the Plus model so I'd love this!
Ditto. My phone stays on mute 100% so the ability to reassign the button just to act as a rotation lock would be perfect. I am often going "here watch this" to people with Youtube or something; I never unmute my phone. Why don't I just keep rotation enabled, you ask? Because being a multiaxis accelerometer the phone senses rotation when I don't intend for it to rotate (for example if I tilt it slightly to reach a button one handed).
I haven't had an iPad for several generations so I wasn't aware they'd removed that; that's disappointing.
I never use it, phone is always on silent (but vibrates). I don't see why they can't go the iPad route and let you select it via the control centre.
I like it. I never have to worry if my phone is audible in a place it shouldn't be.
That's exactly what makes it so intuitive - it's obvious simplicity!
I have an Apple Watch, but that doesn't come anywhere near making the ringer switch redundant, and I very much wish my S8 had a similar switch.
I wouldn't mind if Apple gave the option to resign the switch, but I will be very annoyed if they remove it.
