Attention Aware control is one of the most dangerous feature: please fix to avoid lethal accidents!

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Attention Aware control is one of the most dangerous feature: please fix to avoid lethal accidents!

Your product feature Attention Aware has almost killed me and me family. Here is the case: I play music over the Bluetooth dongle as my car doesn’t have Bluetooth. It ALWAYS dim volumes when I reduce speed during making turn or on the rear drive. I had to readjust a volume that distract my attention. It almost cause a front-to-front car accident just now. People, this is serious, please, pay attention. You just putting your customer into a life critical incidents!

Posted on Feb 17, 2021 9:08 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 17, 2021 9:27 AM in response to starepravo

1) This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple is not reading here for suggestions.

2) Apple is not making you fiddle with your phone while you're driving. That is your responsibility and yours alone.

3) If you don't like the feature, turn it off. Settings>Accessibility>Face ID & Attention>Attention Aware Features>Off.

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starepravo Author

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Feb 17, 2021 9:42 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Thank you for information! I turned this “obvious” feature off that cost me 5 min of searching. I don’t want other people to be in danger same as me, so decided to share.

and yes, this is my responsibility to drive. I would be driving with no distraction if there no nice new iPhone in my pocket. Thanks for reminding anyway!

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stedman1

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Feb 17, 2021 9:42 AM in response to starepravo

starepravo wrote:

Likewise, if you can’t properly design a feature, better don’t do it. Good luck with your multitasking, while you still can.

Quite easy to blame others for your shortcomings, isn’t it?

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Answer 4

Feb 17, 2021 9:48 AM in response to starepravo

starepravo wrote:

Likewise, if you can’t properly design a feature, better don’t do it. Good luck with your multitasking, while you still can.

I find the feature works as advertised. And I try to avoid multitasking, especially while driving as human brains really aren't very good at it (even though we think we are). Now, you can certainly suggest that Apple redesign our brains but it doesn't seem likely to happen.

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