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Q: Why can't the Iphone store more than 100 recent calls in caller history?

Feature upgrade request....

 

Can someone in Appleland PLEASE type a few lines of code, and make the iphone capable of storing more than 100 last phone calls in caller history.

 

Please!

 

For any professional that uses his phone as an actual PHONE, and not an Ipod or video game or controller for a remote controlled toy, caller history is an important feature.

 

100 phone calls is an average three days of call history for me.  For billing and convenience purposes I need up to three months ago.

iPhone 4, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Jan 7, 2014 9:03 AM

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Q: Why can't the Iphone store more than 100 recent calls in caller history?

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  • by ChrisJ4203,

    ChrisJ4203 ChrisJ4203 Jan 7, 2014 9:17 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 7, 2014 9:17 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    Requests for features goes to Apple. Apple is not here. Go to the feedback page, www.apple.com/feedback and click on the appropriate link.

     

    Why not use the detailed billing information from your cellular carrier's bill. That provides you with a lot better information, as well as larger type, and the ability to photocopy, annotate and file. If 100 calls is only 3 days, do you realize how difficult it would be to scroll through 3 months worth of calls? By your estimates, you are talking in excess of 3000 calls to try and work with on the phone screen. Just a thought.

     

    Message was edited by: ChrisJ4203

  • by pdroth,

    pdroth pdroth Jan 7, 2014 9:19 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 7, 2014 9:19 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    Couldn't you just use the itemized bill you receive from your carrier?    Most people don't need 3 months worth of history on their device.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Jan 7, 2014 9:39 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 7, 2014 9:39 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    As a professional, I find downloading my call history from my account with my carrier directly into a spreadsheet is much more efficient than trying to copy things off of the screen of the phone.

     

    I also don't make the assumption that people who use the phone in a different way than I are frivolous or juvenile.

     

    Best of luck.

  • by sadaboutmyphone,

    sadaboutmyphone sadaboutmyphone Jan 7, 2014 8:37 PM in response to ChrisJ4203
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    Jan 7, 2014 8:37 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

    Thanks,  I'll do that.

     


    There have been many times I needed a quick lookup of a recent call while I'm in the field, I usually find it has just been cut off by about 20-50 calls.  Waiting a month for an invoice from the phone company or trying to log in to some cumbersome phone carrier website with an  Iphone just isn't practical.  (Data usage in my area is spotty at best)

    Every other phone I've owned up to the iphone did this in seconds without any issues.

  • by sadaboutmyphone,

    sadaboutmyphone sadaboutmyphone Jan 7, 2014 8:43 PM in response to pdroth
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    Jan 7, 2014 8:43 PM in response to pdroth

    Not really, the bill doesn't come for a month, and it doesn't show incoming numbers, just outgoing.

     

    Most people don't need a 10,000 song jukebox in their pocket, or thousands of video games, movies, widgets, plumbobs, tape measures, flashlights, remote controls, pedometers, GPS restaurant finders, ...  But it's all there.

     

    All I want is a simple function that has been around since my old school 3 watt motorola bag phone.

  • by ChrisJ4203,

    ChrisJ4203 ChrisJ4203 Jan 7, 2014 9:39 PM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 7, 2014 9:39 PM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    Good luck. I feel sorry for you if you have to scroll through 3000 calls to find something on that regular a basis. I also feel bad that your carrier does not provide you with better details in your billing. You might need to review the ability of other devices in the future if this is a deal breaker for you. Take care.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Jan 8, 2014 5:27 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 5:27 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    All I want is a simple function that has been around since my old school 3 watt motorola bag phone.

    Now you're just being silly. Motorola bag phones didn't have an unlimited call history. Most of them did about 20 numbers.

  • by sadaboutmyphone,

    sadaboutmyphone sadaboutmyphone Jan 8, 2014 9:15 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Jan 8, 2014 9:15 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Ok, sure, but the real silly thing is I spent all morning trying to find the phone number from a single phone call, wasting about $600 worth of labor.

     

    another silly thing is I remembered the customer called when I was out of the service area back in November and left a voicemail, and I was able to find it by quickly looking through 671 deleted voicemail messages on my Iphone.

     

     

    phone:voicemail: scroll to the bottom: Deleted messages 671>

     

     

    So I guess I solved my own problem.  Just don't answer the phone when customers call and hope they leave a voicemail if I want to have a record of the calls for more than 100 numbers.

     

    (It would be easier for the phone to just store all the numbers in caller history, and I know I'm not the only one who would appreciate this)

  • by TJBUSMC1973,

    TJBUSMC1973 TJBUSMC1973 Jan 8, 2014 9:22 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 9:22 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    If it's an important phone number, store it as a new Contact or add it to an existing one.  Then, you just search for the Contact when you need to recall the number.

     

    Then, add important details to the Contact.  You can even add Notes to a Contact.

     

    For any professional that uses his phone as an actual PHONE, it makes sense to stay organized properly, and not waste time scrolling through old phone calls to find a number that should have been saved in a more permanent, and more easily searchable format.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Jan 8, 2014 9:22 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 9:22 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    So I guess I solved my own problem.  Just don't answer the phone when customers call and hope they leave a voicemail if I want to have a record of the calls for more than 100 numbers.

    Or, answer the call and, when you're done add the number to your contacts.

  • by KiltedTim,

    KiltedTim KiltedTim Jan 8, 2014 9:25 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 9:25 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    another silly thing is I remembered the customer called when I was out of the service area back in November and left a voicemail

    In which case the call never would have reached your phone, meaning it would not have been in the call list no matter how far back it extended.

  • by sadaboutmyphone,

    sadaboutmyphone sadaboutmyphone Jan 8, 2014 9:28 AM in response to TJBUSMC1973
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    Jan 8, 2014 9:28 AM in response to TJBUSMC1973

    It wasn't important at the time, then it became important,  so that's pretty much what I was trying to do just now.

     

    If I saved every single phone call I get as a contact the contact list would be overwhelming and just as useless.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Jan 8, 2014 9:42 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 9:42 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    If I saved every single phone call I get as a contact the contact list would be overwhelming and just as useless.

    An incredibly long list of recent calls would be useful to you but a large number of contacts to which you could add important details and even notes that could be searched with Spotlight would not be useful? You can't, at the moment, do what you want. It's becoming clear that you also are unwilling to consider any other possible solutions.

     

    Good luck.

  • by sadaboutmyphone,

    sadaboutmyphone sadaboutmyphone Jan 8, 2014 10:01 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Jan 8, 2014 10:01 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Yes, actually, it would be useful, hence the feature request.

     

    If I added every phone call of around 12,000 additional contacts per year and only cared about a few hundred of them, that would make the entire phone useless.

    I can just imagine trying to do a hands free call while driving down the road...

     

    Me

    "Call Bob Brandon"

    siri

    "did you mean... Bob Albert, Bob Bartley, Bob Barker, Bob Barthalomew, Bob Birkbeck..."

     

    I have already had to trim down my contact list because it's clogged with too many contacts.

     

    The recent caller list is a simple function that doesn't get used very often, up until I need to look up that one call that became important and slipped through the cracks, which happenes every now and then.

     

    I'm just wondering why 100?  why not 1000 or 10,000 for the caller history.  It takes about as much memory space as one voice message, and my phone holds at least 677 of those.


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