Accidental calling of favorites on hang up on my iPhone

Still an ongoing issue but recently I tried just pressing the power button on the right and it ends the call right away. Will be using this method until they figure it out. Hopefully IOS 17 make this go away. 🤙🏾

Reesius wrote:

There needs to be a simple 1 second wait time before another call can be placed. Or even more simple, make the screen inert for 1 second after a call ends/drops. This is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. We don’t always talk with the phone to our ear. I work on nighttime emergency response and on DOZENS of occasions I have woken people up who desperately needed that sleep. PLEASE SEND THIS UP THE LADDER

Apple does not read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

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Meanwhile, don't be in such a hurry to end the call. Wait a second to see if the other person has ended the call. Or, use the side button.

If this is such a huge problem for you, there are, as I've explained, other ways to end the call, most notably, the side button. I find it much easier because I don't have to look at the phone at all.

Kelleroperator wrote:

I had to add myself to my favorites list so I appeared in that spot when hanging up. This way it dials my phone and doesn’t bother the person on your favorites list.

total pain. And embarrassing

I love it... out-smarting the software developer!!!

yougoyugo2 wrote:

BTW, my workaround is to move my favorite corporate numbers to that location at the bottom of the favorites screen. This way I get into a phone menu, just hang up, and I haven't butt-dialled any one of my friends.

Or, just use the side button.

GusHell wrote:

Like has been said before but should be stressed again: the truly annonying part is that you cannot undo the placed call - I’m pretty sure there used to be a slight delay so you could hang up a misplaced call in earlier iOS:s. Now it immediatly goes through or creates a push notification, and then an unnecessary callback and need for an explanation etc.

If you hang up immediately, it never shows on the other end. I know that because if I'm not paying attention, I sometimes tap a Recent call entry instead of swiping to delete it. It's never been a problem to just end the call immediately.

If Apple fixed this first, there would be much less of a need to also fix the (equally idiotic) return-to-favourites-when-other-party-hangs up design flaw.

Or, you could just end the call using the button on the side.

My work around at least for the favorites list is to set all favorites to a default action of texting when a favorite is selected. It does create an added step to change to a call when you are actually wanting to call someone but is working for me to avoid accidental dials from the favorites list.

ARKXER wrote:

Apple this unacceptable if you really worried about your Apple Customers its important to fix this annoying thing immediately this question was posted on Jan 2022 and i am still facing the same issue even now it very frustrating and your so called solution of using the side lock button doesnt help its not a solution that we are ready to change to.

Its a simple solution after the call has ended increase the time of the screen showing the total time spoken that way we need not accidently touch our screens to end the call and dial somebody from the list (Favorites or Recent) .

expecting an early action on this

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Meanwhile, you can end the call without calling anyone else by using the powerbutton.

RCOrchid wrote:

• This is a very frustrating issue. Below is a temporary fix I follow:

Create 2 dummy contacts with invalid telephone numbers

• Add these 2 dummy entries to the favorite list so that the position is right below the End-Call red button.

• If you accidentally click these dummy entries, the call will not go through.

Not an elegant solution. But it is better than disturbing someone by mistake.

So much easier than just using the button on the side of the phone.....

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Meanwhile, don't be in such a hurry to end the call. Wait a second to see if the other person has ended the call. ...

IIdrisSeabright,

You've suggested that more than once. Based on this suggestion, I don't think you fully comprehend the actual problem/issue, because your suggestion will not work. I suggest you pause and re-read the problem and re-think your suggested solution.

WHY WON'T IT WORK?

What if both callers took the advice of "Wait a second to see if the other person has ended the call"? How would that play out? Sounds like a stalemate to me. Eventually, one or both callers would press the END CALL button and at that moment, you have the same problem.

Waiting a few seconds won't fix the problem. The problem is occurs when one caller hits the END-CALL button a fraction of a second after the other caller does. It the timing between the two callers.

Once you both say "good-bye", one of the callers must hit the END-CALL button. In some cases, you can both hit the END-CALL (at roughly the same time) and there is no consequence. But in other cases, one caller hit this button just a fraction of a second after the other caller hit the button, and this is where the problem occurs. A split second before the 2nd caller's finger touches the screen to hit the END CALL button, the screen changes (but there was not enough time to notice and stop the finger that was just millimeters from the button). The damage is done... As the call ends and the phone is going back to the previous screen (recents/favorites) the 2nd caller has just tapped the screen and initiated a new phone call.

There is no practical way to avoid this today. If waiting 3 seconds is the best advice, and other caller also waits 3 seconds, then you still have the exact same issue. Namely, that when one caller hits END-CALL a fraction of a second after the other caller hits END-CALL the problem occurs.

Lastly, I did take your advice about sending feedback to Apple: Here's what I said in the comment section:

Lengthy explanation. But there's a Apple Community Topic describing the problem with 2883 "ME TOO"s.

See: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253557809

TJ540 wrote:

This just happened to me AGAIN! It's March 2024 and I have a 13 pro. APPLE please fix this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Meanwhile, end the call with the side button.

Ezz0h wrote:

It’s absolutely unbelievable that several years later this is still a problem. This happens to me nearly every time I end a phone call on my iPhone. Absolutely infuriating

Tell Apple:

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Or use the side button.

Just make a fake contact and your number and put it in the place under the button

I had to add myself to my favorites list so I appeared in that spot when hanging up. This way it dials my phone and doesn’t bother the person on your favorites list.

total pain. And embarrassing

Rothe511 wrote:

Why does my phone call back the last person I’ve called when I hang up?

Because you moved to quickly and hit the screen after the call had been disconnected by the other party. If you made the call from favorites, it took you back there and you tapped on an entry. The easy solution is to slow down.