How to Avoid Accidental Back-to-Back Calls on iPhone 13 Pro Max

SDMasterYoda wrote:

Idris, the phone does do it. I'm not telling you to change how you use your phone, but if you try it for yourself, you'll see the phone app disappears immediately when the other end hangs up. If you're hanging up first, it won't happen to you; It happens when the other side hangs up first while you're going to hang up

I have tried. I don't experience what you do. Why are you trying to gaslight me?

It is telling that this question is a year old and yet the only "helpful" replies are from people asking apple to fix what they broke with their updates. (again)

Here's to me waiting for my iPhone 8 to finally break so I can go and get an android with Graphene OS and do what I want.

Rieekan wrote:

Introducing a delay after a hangup should solve this issue, no?

And create a new problem: “Apple, why can’t I make another call immediately after hanging up? Who thought there was a reason to prevent a series of calls? Apple, ARE YOU LISTENING?"

Tdollaz wrote:

Please fix this it’s the worst!!!!

No one participating or reading this thread can make any changes in how iPhones work. You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

People are expressing their frustration with the way the product operates. The hope is that the more people comment on these boards that are supposedly watched by Apple employees, the more this issue will bubble up in their priorities.

Rieekan wrote:

People are expressing their frustration with the way the product operates. The hope is that the more people comment on these boards that are supposedly watched by Apple employees, the more this issue will bubble up in their priorities.

The Hosts allow a certain amount of expressing frustration. However, the hope that Apple employees who are empowered to make the change you want will be reading here is in vain. The only employees who regularly, consistently read these forums are the Hosts whose job is to make sure that we follow the rules. If you actually want Apple to know your thoughts, use the mechanism Apple provided for that, the feedback page.

Just a rough estimation to the "red button call" problem:

• There are 1.2 billion iPhone users in the world
• An average user is making 2 outgoing calls a day
• Estimated 75% of the users are using the red button to hang up the call within 1 second after saying goodbye
• With an estimated probability of 1% the mentioned problem occurs (other party hangs up milliseconds before the initiator of the call)

This would lead to 18 million "red button calls" per day

...and 6.57 billion "red button calls" per year

Maybe the worldwide economic damage should be calculated and Apple should be forced by law to fix this subpar implementation of the call window UI.

;-)

reaganmariegee wrote:

I don’t understand how Apple programmers haven’t noticed the problem themselves and decided it’s worth fixing. Do they…use androids???

Or, like many of us, they don’t have the problem.

@Apple it’s 2023 and this is still an issue… When I press the red button to end a call, my iPhone immediately takes me back to my recent calls and I end up mistakenly dialing someone. This is so annoying. Even when I immediately hang up, they get a missed call from me. Please fix this!

I agree, huge...huge oversight and terrible flaw in the core function!!!!! So irritating, I am constantly having to text clients and vendors multiple times a day, saying please disregard missed call. This is truly ridiculous and bad for any professional or business owner like myself. Come on Apple, you can do better, your making me miss my Samsung... in many ways. I have the 14 pro max and have been very disappointed. The gamble of hitting the end button multiple times a day in fear of making an accidental call is so irritating. I'm truly considering losing money to get rid of this POS and go back to Android...which doesn't have this problem. Cant believe you guys haven't addressed this yet, hundreds of people posting about this here and on other social platforms. I am in awe of inability or refusal to fix this. Shame!!!

I have the same issue. Surprised that Apple hasn’t fixed this yet. Ideally the screen can jump to dial pad after call is disconnected so you won’t call someone accidentally on your call history at 1:00 am!!

While I may have chosen a different adjective if the comment had been mine; I can see that some may think this is asinine because why would there be a nice red end button for your use if the solution is "don't use it"? If having an intuitive interface is still a goal of Apple, this solution does not fit.

LineKatyne wrote:

While I may have chosen a different adjective if the comment had been mine; I can see that some may think this is asinine because why would there be a nice red end button for your use if the solution is "don't use it"? If having an intuitive interface is still a goal of Apple, this solution does not fit.

"I don't find this intuative" is a vastly different sentiment than "That's just extremely stupid".

No interface is going to seem intuative to everyone.

I didn't say it was stupid. Do you have a suggested solution other than "don't use the end button to end a call"? Additionally, Steve Jobs thought there was a way to make an interface intuitive, it was fundamental to Apple's founding and product development philosophy.

LineKatyne wrote:

I didn't say it was stupid.

I wasn't suggesting you did. I was suggesting that is what came across from the poster who said it was asinine (defined as extremely stupid or foolish).

Steve Jobs thought there was a way to make an interface intuitive, it was fundamental to Apple's founding and product development philosophy.

Mr. Jobs had a lot of opinions, including that Macs shouldn'have keyboards (mice are more intuitive) and iPad's shouldn't have a stylus (fingers are more intuitive). His idea of "intuitive" seems to have been informed by his own ideas of minimalism: fewer choices, as few hardware buttons as possible. He wasn't always right.