sadaboutmyphone

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 Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Jan 8, 2014 10:03 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 10:03 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    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.


    And no one here can answer that. The best we can do is what we've already done. Make suggestions for other options and give you the feedback link.

  • by TJBUSMC1973,

    TJBUSMC1973 TJBUSMC1973 Jan 8, 2014 10:19 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 10:19 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    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.

     

    That makes no sense.  The Contacts list is searchable.  Your call history is not.

     

    For a business professional, pretty much every call should be important. 

     

    You've been given an answer to your technical question.  The iPhone only displays the 100 most recent calls.  This is they way the device is designed.  Therefore, your iPhone is working properly.

     

    If you want that feature to be changed, contact Apple directly at www.apple.com/feedback.

     

    If you want a method that would allow you to properly keep track of your important calls and numbers, use what we've recommended.

  • by TJBUSMC1973,

    TJBUSMC1973 TJBUSMC1973 Jan 8, 2014 10:21 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Jan 8, 2014 10:21 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    sadaboutmyphone wrote:

     

    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.


     

    You get 1,000 new calls every month?  That's about 50 per day.  In a ten hour workday, that's five new calls per hour.

     

    You need a personal assistant, IMHO.

  • by sadaboutmyphone,

    sadaboutmyphone sadaboutmyphone Jan 8, 2014 10:48 AM in response to TJBUSMC1973
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    Jan 8, 2014 10:48 AM in response to TJBUSMC1973

    I have two, but since we all went to Ipones they can't look back for more than 100 calles either.

  • by wandersonfromcharleston,

    wandersonfromcharleston wandersonfromcharleston Aug 29, 2015 7:03 PM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Aug 29, 2015 7:03 PM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    i totally agree with you ,it ***** the **** out of it , when i want to see a received call details , and its gone , i want to break the phone , its frustrated

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Aug 29, 2015 8:58 PM in response to wandersonfromcharleston
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    Aug 29, 2015 8:58 PM in response to wandersonfromcharleston

    wandersonfromcharleston wrote:

     

    i totally agree with you ,it ***** the **** out of it , when i want to see a received call details , and its gone , i want to break the phone , its frustrated

    Well, once you break your iPhone, buy a different brand of phone that gives you the features you need. Of course, this means you'll need to do what you didn't do before you bought the iPhone: proper research into what you're spending all that money on.

  • by buffyk,

    buffyk buffyk Sep 15, 2016 8:02 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone
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    Sep 15, 2016 8:02 AM in response to sadaboutmyphone

    I agree, I'm in the same position.  My Blackberry had a great call log (it saved me on more than one occasion).  Is there an App that can record (meaning to put it in a list)  the call log without my having to put the number into it?

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Sep 15, 2016 8:10 AM in response to buffyk
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    Sep 15, 2016 8:10 AM in response to buffyk

    buffyk wrote:

     

    Is there an App that can record (meaning to put it in a list)  the call log without my having to put the number into it?

    No.

     

    What I do is periodically archive my call log to my computer using PhoneView. I can do it as a pdf or txt file which I could then move to my iPhone (if I wanted) for future reference.

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