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Will new Iphone finally allow one to delete calls individually?
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Stop cheating on your wife.
I'm glad you think this is hilarious and original...but it's the same tripe that's been posted 5000 times on every one of the requests for individual call deletion posts since, well, forever.
I use my Calls Missed list as a way of reminding me who I need to get back to. Sometimes when in a meeting or otherwise busy, I receive dozens of calls. And what would be nice, and in fact, what's a 'feature' on every POS phone out there (except the iPhone) is the ability to delete individual numbers once I have returned their calls and still KEEP the numbers on the Missed list of those I have yet to call back.
If you read my first post in this thread a few pages back, you would certainly see my true feelings on this issue. I figured the emoticon with the huge grin would have eluded to the fact that I was joking, but apparently some people aren't too quick to pick up on the obvious.
Sorry dude..didn't scroll back the 4 pages to read your first post. Nothing personal at all. I simply think the feature we are talking about is a valuable one and I hate to see it trivialized. That's it.
Agreed. The bottom line for me is whether it is an organizational thing or an infidelity thing, this is a feature that is included in the most basic phones that end up being FREE after the AT&T subsidy should definitely be a built in part of a high end smartphone.
Non-cheaters reason for finding this thread
I searched to find if there was some way of deleting individual calls off my call list and came across this thread. I laughed at all the accusations that cheating was the only good reason for needing this. I just got caught by my wife, she figured out I was hiding something from her because I had deleted all my call list entries. I wanted to delete the calls to the bakery, the caterer, and her friends so she would not know about the big party I was planning for her birthday in two weeks. I wanted to delete only the calls that gave it away, after all every cell phone I have had in the last 20 years could do it. Strangely, my new iPhone cannot. I told her I was just testing all the features of my new phone, but she is not buying it. We all have our reasons and any phone in this day and age should allow us to maintain a basic level of privacy. My phone should not end up being used against me. I hope Apple is listening.
I searched to find if there was some way of deleting individual calls off my call list and came across this thread. I laughed at all the accusations that cheating was the only good reason for needing this. I just got caught by my wife, she figured out I was hiding something from her because I had deleted all my call list entries. I wanted to delete the calls to the bakery, the caterer, and her friends so she would not know about the big party I was planning for her birthday in two weeks. I wanted to delete only the calls that gave it away, after all every cell phone I have had in the last 20 years could do it. Strangely, my new iPhone cannot. I told her I was just testing all the features of my new phone, but she is not buying it. We all have our reasons and any phone in this day and age should allow us to maintain a basic level of privacy. My phone should not end up being used against me. I hope Apple is listening.
Sorry for the long quote, but I LOVE this story! There are so many totally legitimate reasons for individual call deletion, and I've posted on this subject a number of times. But this is one story that I never considered and I salute you, sir, for what you are doing and having to endure for doing it!
iPhone has many dumb things like this, I guess Apple isn´t perfect.
It´s annoying when they do so many things well, but ignore some very basic "no brainers".
I read all these posts and was moved to register and comment.
Deleting single calls from a call list is a basic function that should be on the iPhone. Full stop.
I don't care if you think it is a cheaters charter or whatever.
I am an adult and have a busy social life, so why on earth should Apple or anyone else for that matter moralise to me about my behaviour, surely it's my own business?
Deleting single calls from a call list is a basic function that should be on the iPhone. Full stop.
I don't care if you think it is a cheaters charter or whatever.
I am an adult and have a busy social life, so why on earth should Apple or anyone else for that matter moralise to me about my behaviour, surely it's my own business?
Agree totally. It is a basic feature. As previously posted, there are times when I miss calls due to being in a meeting or whatever else and I'll receive a ton of calls. I use the MISSED CALLS list to remind me which people I need to call back. I'd like to be able to remove the individual calls I've already returned one at a time and leave the ones I still need to return on the list.
No way to do this.
As it is now, you have to either leave the entire list or delete the entire list. It's a simple feature really, another one that dumb phones have had forever. Again, just because an individual doesn't necessarily need the feature being suggested as missing, OR there is the possibility that someone may use the feature for what may be considered to be an illegitimate purpose doesn't obviate the need. Not a dealbreaker certainly. But a feature I would welcome in a software update.
So what if he's cheating. Irrelevant. You should be able to delete a single call on an iP4 like you can on other phones from the 1990's. While we're at it, can we please get the option to delete all emails all at once instead of having to select emails one by one. Simple basic feature of a mobile phone.
We should just delete all of our emails as well right
I don't think emails and a call log are really comparible, but i see your point
its a simple feature which i actually assumed was there to be honest, never checked as i've never wanted to use it.
someone suggest the feature
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
I haven't gone thru all the posts, but many of the people that just use the phone for simple personal calls do not realize the need for this VERY useful feature and keep talking about "cheating on gf etc...".
say, I have a small biz and I received lots of calls about my products / services and I get back to them only at a certain time of the day... I have lots of missed calls etc and my call log is spammed. Now when I call them back, if say he/she is not interested in my product anymore, seeing his sticky number here and there in my call log is just utter painful to me (I have to avoid calling him again) (I create a roundabout method where I have to add him as a dummy foobar contact and see that name to avoid in the call log) -- I hope someone gets the point. And if I have 10 calls between me and a prospective customer, I would have deleted 9 of them (by actually deletting the last but one each time) and have only ONE entry with his name / number in my call log -- do you see the use??
Due to this one thing for me, the iphone is good, far from perfect.
I tried a HTC phone and I can individually or completely remove all the calls from a specific number -- that is heaven for me! No turning back for me.
Enuf said.
say, I have a small biz and I received lots of calls about my products / services and I get back to them only at a certain time of the day... I have lots of missed calls etc and my call log is spammed. Now when I call them back, if say he/she is not interested in my product anymore, seeing his sticky number here and there in my call log is just utter painful to me (I have to avoid calling him again) (I create a roundabout method where I have to add him as a dummy foobar contact and see that name to avoid in the call log) -- I hope someone gets the point. And if I have 10 calls between me and a prospective customer, I would have deleted 9 of them (by actually deletting the last but one each time) and have only ONE entry with his name / number in my call log -- do you see the use??
Due to this one thing for me, the iphone is good, far from perfect.
I tried a HTC phone and I can individually or completely remove all the calls from a specific number -- that is heaven for me! No turning back for me.
Enuf said.
Have they finally found a way to reinovate technology to where a smartphone can finally accomplish a simple task such as deleting a smple call from the call log without having to clear and delete the whole freakin call log/history
How difficult could be for a company with billons of dollars with cash on had to allow a smartphone user the option of deleting call individually from the call log/history??
I had a jailbroken app that did this. I can't remember the name atm. I'll post it once I look it up.