missed call notification for iPhone 4: how to?

I hope someone at Apple is reading this...no I'm not a business person...I'm not attached to my phone 24/7 I'm a stay at home mom and grandmother. I mised several calls this weekend because my 85year old father was taken to the emergency room. I was working in the yard and didn't have the phone with me. I'm tired of the iphone not being able to alert me that I have missed a call. It needs to be able to alert me that I have missed call UNTIL I check my phone. I searched the app store this morning for any app that could alert me repeatedly and found NOTHING. This is unacceptable and it will prevent me from purchasing another iphone. My father is OK but had he not be.....it would have been very upseting to me.

jessup1960 wrote:

I hope someone at Apple is reading this.

Probably not. Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I'm confused though. When you pick your phone up after not having been near it for a long time, can you not simply look at the Phone app icon and see if there is a missed call? Or notifications on the lock screen if that's too much work?

Meg, the more I read your replies on this topic (and others), the more I wonder if YOU couldn't pass our remarks along to Apple, you're so intent on defending them all the time.

If you know someone who knows someone who know someone... By all means...

FrenchToast wrote:

Meg, the more I read your replies on this topic (and others), the more I wonder if YOU couldn't pass our remarks along to Apple, you're so intent on defending them all the time.

I'm not sure when making common sense suggestions became "defending". What you currently want doesn't exist. If you're unwilling to take the trouble to look at the screen of your phone to see who called, you probably need different phone. And the only way I have to make suggestions to Apple is by the feedback link I already gave you.

I'm confused though.

That's because you're not listening.

People, including me, have said specifically that they want to be notified of a missing call with no user interaction required. Finding the phone, picking it up, and clicking buttons is user interaction. Simply put: it should be the phone's responsibility of notifying me of missed calls - it's a fricking phone for God's sake. To put it in tech terms, it should be a push notification, not a pull.

What you currently want doesn't exist.

That's why so many people are complaining.

Submit your feedback to Apple here

I don't know about others, but I have submitted my feedback. So far? Crickets chirping.

Maybe if - and when - Apple finally gets around to implementing the feature, they could make crickets chirping the default notification tone as a nod to the years that this simple request has been ignored.

... and with that, I'm officially unsubscribing to email notifications for this thread, as I've recently switched to the Galaxy S5. There will probably always be some things I miss about the iPhone's highly polished interface, but the compulsion to press the Home key every time I walk back into a room won't be one of them.

Good luck.

Good for @slambram. People vote with their dollars, Apple, so you might want to start paying attention.

Unfortunately, it`s too late for me to return the iPhone 5S to the store, but for sure, my next phone won't be an iPhone. And yes, I've went to feedback.apple.com.

I'm sorry Meg but I'm just not joined at the hip with my phone. No disrespect intended. I'm in my 50's and I just don't remember to look at the phone every hour. I would if it beeped at me. This seems like such a simple fix to me, so I don't understand why Apple would be dragging their feet. It can't be so they can launch a new and updated phone with the technoligy because they would have done that over the years. I love my phone for now because I have too! But I won't be buying a new iphone next time around.

If Apple or someone in Apple customer service doesn't read their own boards, they are truely not into caring about their customers at all.

jessup1960 wrote:

I'm sorry Meg but I'm just not joined at the hip with my phone. No disrespect intended. I'm in my 50's and I just don't remember to look at the phone every hour. I would if it beeped at me.

I"m in my 50s, too. And I can check a phone periodically without any help. I expect to take that small modicum of personal responsibility for communicating with important people in my life. I understand that people don't want to do that simple thing. But it's still a simple thing. If its that irksome, sell your phone and buy onte that better meets your needs.

Apple has perfectly good mechanisms for customer feedback. Customers who don't avail themselves of them when they 1) are really irritated about something and 2) have been given the link to provide feedback are, in my book, like people who don't vote.

I understand that people don't want to do that simple thing. But it's still a simple thing. If its that irksome, sell your phone and buy onte that better meets your needs.

Given your condescending attitude and refusal to listen to consumers, it's a wonder Apple hasn't hired you.

Apple has perfectly good mechanisms for customer feedback.

If that was true, this would be fixed by now.

It was just in 1998 when Apple released the "Think Different" Marketing campaign. It's amazing that these "Apple fanboys" or defenders or whatever you want to call them, so staunchly defend every single feature, lack of feature, iTunes, iOS, etc as the ONLY way to think and act.

I guess Think Different now means "It's Apple's way or the highway"

For example, " I can check a phone periodically without any help. I expect to take that small modicum of personal responsibility for communicating with important people in my life. I understand that people don't want to do that simple thing. But it's still a simple thing. If its that irksome, sell your phone and buy onte that better meets your needs."

So Meg, your way of doing things is the only way. You can't fathom that others have their own way of doing things. So your answer is to go buy another phone.

You gotta go easier on the Kool-Aid.

Does the new iPhone6 still lacks this feature? If it's so, my 5S will be my last Apple phone.

The only way to be sure would be to check the features of the device. To my knowledge, after looking at the feature and specification list, I see no mention of any type of external notification device for the phone outside of what currently exists. In other words, I see nothing that says there will be any kind of external flashing light or additional alert sound that what current exists.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, the feedback link as been provided for use in letting Apple know how you feel.

Yep. I did it when I found my new iPhone 5S without any missed call notification. If Apple hasn't implemented yet in the iPhone 6, it means that Apple doesn't care about it. I won't insist. Simply will change of phone brand.