Phone Calls Will Finally Stop Taking Up the Entire Screen in iOS 14

lunarworks said:
I've been waiting years for this.
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Why? What’s the gain? What was difficult about hitting the home button and then being able to access outside of the phone app. All I see from this is having to tap the screen more often to regain controls that used to be there at the ready.
 
Tozovac said:
Why? What’s the gain? What was difficult about hitting the home button and then being able to access outside of the phone app. All I see from this is having to tap the screen more often to regain controls that used to be there at the ready.
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Don't think you can dismiss a call by "hitting the home button".
 
I thought they’ve been reading and hearing about user agitations for this functionality and tried to play a bit of mischief with the announcement - the way they did it.
 
Tozovac said:
Why? What’s the gain? What was difficult about hitting the home button and then being able to access outside of the phone app. All I see from this is having to tap the screen more often to regain controls that used to be there at the ready.
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Because if I'm poking away at my phone, playing a game or working on something, a call coming in full-screen was beyond disruptive. Here it only comes in on a small portion of the screen and can quickly be swept away.
 
C DM said:
Don't think you can dismiss a call by "hitting the home button".
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Good point, if this is just the incoming call screen. Then again - once again, what’s the real gain here. Now an incoming call takes up some space but not all screen space. If you’re not going to answer or dismiss the call but instead wait it out since you don’t want to answer, part of your screen is blocked instead of all of it. I suppose we’d have to see how it works in person first but it’s not entirely clear what the gain is here that’s so exciting. Then again, it is something new and different, which I know is exciting to many in and of itself, beyond any discernible functional change or improvement.
 
Tozovac said:
Good point, if this is just the incoming call screen. Then again - once again, what’s the real gain here. Now an incoming call takes up some space but not all screen space. If you’re not going to answer or dismiss the call but instead wait it out since you don’t want to answer, part of your screen is blocked instead of all of it. I suppose we’d have to see how it works in person first but it’s not entirely clear what the gain is here.
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The gain is fairly simple: you are doing something on your phone and a call comes in and interrupts and blocks you right in the middle of you doing something (perhaps typing or something else), and you can't get rid of it easily without either just waiting it out or declining the call. With this change, you aren't interrupted and taken away from what you are doing, and have the option to just ignore or dismiss it without much of a delay or an actual call decline.
 
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That's a good improvement. One of the big pluses I found when I moved to Android. While it is called a smartphone. Acting as a phone is not the primary use for many people. Phone calls are just one of many communication options.
 
JGIGS said:
Kinda wish it was at the bottom of the screen though. Easier to reach.
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Probably easier to accidentally press it while in the midst of something like typing/scrolling and the call comes in at the bottom. The top is easier to spot and our fingers are not all over at that part of the screen.
 
Mdracer said:
yep. Nothing worse than people knowing when you sent the call to VM. It’s an easy way for people to know you REJECTED them.
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Honestly, I'd find less rude someone sending me directly to VM than having me to wait 15 extra seconds. While I do understand that many times people can't answer immediately (I don't know why anyone sensible would have this expectation), I don't believe that many people can't reject the call as most people live next to their phone.
 
C DM said:
The gain is fairly simple, you are doing something on your phone and a call comes in and blocks you right in the middle of you doing something (perhaps typing or something else) and you can't get rid of it easily without either just waiting it out or declining the call. This way, you aren't interrupted and taken away from what you are doing and have the option to just ignore or dismiss it without much of a delay or an actual call decline.
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OK thanks. I can’t test it at the moment but I thought hitting the home button allows you to dismiss the call screen and wait it out, letting it go to voicemail, equally quick/easy. I could be wrong.
 
Eorlas said:
if it wasnt for apple's hubris, there's a few jailbreak tweaks that exist right now for reference as to great ways to implement this.

one of them has existed for over a decade.
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Indeed. I've been using CallBar since it first came out; wouldn't want to live without it. It's astonishing how long it takes Apple to finally get around to implementing some of the features the jailbreak community has considered essential for years. Had copy/paste at least a year before it was standard in OS.
 
I must be missing something here, but why has these been 'much desired'?

When a phone call comes in you want to see quickly who it is, and either accept or deny the call. At that point this is the SOLE purpose of the phone. Until you accept or decline you can't do anything else anyway, so what exactly is the advantage of making it smaller and more 'unobtrusive'?!
 
Totally missed this during the Keynote. Finally!
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wyarp said:
I must be missing something here, but why has these been 'much desired'?

When a phone call comes in you want to see quickly who it is, and either accept or deny the call. At that point this is the SOLE purpose of the phone. Until you accept or decline you can't do anything else anyway, so what exactly is the advantage of making it smaller and more 'unobtrusive'?!
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To better match the rest of the experience IMO.
 
wyarp said:
I must be missing something here, but why has these been 'much desired'?

When a phone call comes in you want to see quickly who it is, and either accept or deny the call. At that point this is the SOLE purpose of the phone. Until you accept or decline you can't do anything else anyway, so what exactly is the advantage of making it smaller and more 'unobtrusive'?!
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Some of us don't want to send people straight to voicemail to get back to a video we are watching or a game we are playing. It's a thing I promise.
 
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