Is there a way to dial a contact by just typing its name in the keypad....as one can do in all the blackberry and android dialers...it is quite a job first to find the contact and then dial..
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
Incis wrote:
I agree on this. I miss Smart Type also...
So, tell someone who has the ability to do something about it:
This is my first iphone, a 6s. This is a bloody telephone. It should have the quick dial features as has been in most phones for years. I use this for my work and am using it as a phone all day every day. Not having this is just a pain in the ***. Voice dial may be great while your in a car but not in all other situations. For those of you who have not used android go and try one for a week and see how the quick dial works.
sh20 wrote:
For those of you who have not used android go and try one for a week and see how the quick dial works.
Personally, i don’t care how it works.
sh20 wrote:
For those of you who have not used android go and try one for a week and see how the quick dial works.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+. I have Android phones since the very first Motorola Droid. I'm quite familiar with that feature and never use it. I make screen shortcuts for speed dialing, just as I make Today screen shortcuts on my iPhone. But, mostly, I use voice dialing. I have a Blue Ant Q3 headset that supports Siri and Ok, Google! I never have to take my phone out of the holster.
Spotlight is even faster because you can do it from any screen. Don't even have to go to the dialer.
anypats wrote:
Spotlight is even faster because you can do it from any screen.
You mean any Home screen
Press the Home button and swipe down. You're arguing over 1/8 of a second of motion to use a standard iPhone feature is taking too long????????
I would hate to see your daily schedule If this is taking too much time out if your day. Go pick a useless fight somewhere else, please.
MLadd wrote:
Press the Home button and swipe down. You're arguing over 1/8 of a second of motion to use a standard iPhone feature is taking too long????????
I would hate to see your daily schedule If this is taking too much time out if your day. Go pick a useless fight somewhere else, please.
He wasn't picking a fight. He was clarifying a point made by another poster.
Since this forum is about provided technical support to our fellow users, it's a best practice to strive for accurate information.
You seem upset. Please take a moment to reconsider the point Chris CA made, and think about whether or not his post really was trying to pick a fight. If anything, it's your post that has that connotation. I'm sure that was unintentional. However, this is a technical support forum, not an emotional support one.
MLadd wrote:
Press the Home button and swipe down.
Okay. That's not any screen. It's the Home screen.
I clarified it because iOS 7 allowed the user to swipe down on ANY screen as anypats stated (not only the Home screen)..
You're arguing over 1/8 of a second of motion to use a standard iPhone feature is taking too long????????
No. Why do you ask?
I don't care how long it takes .
i would hate to see your daily schedule If this is taking too much time out if your day.
Don't think that's something you need to worry about but thanks for the concern!
Go pick a useless fight somewhere else, please.
wrote the person attempting to pick a useless fight over ???
Was referring to SH20. Sorry. The hierarchy on iOS is different than my Mac and I thought it was him I responded to.
This was a major bug when I started using iPhone 6 plus after years of Android experience. While Android started getting on my nerves as something always went wrong which each phone I got, I turned to more reliable iPhone now, at least I hope so. I'm really satisfied with it, everything works swell, it is fast and it is just perfect. Except for this. I can't call a contact from dialing pad as on android devices.
However, by reading this posts, iPhone really offers easy way for this. Swipe from the middle of the screen down and you instantly go to search field and just type your contact and click on phone icon. Can't be simpler than this. But I even didn't know that I can swipe from the middle 🙂
So, I'm happy again. 🙂
The discussion is quite old but indeed one of the few features that are missing from iPhone.
Also a basic feature like mobile data enable disable is missing.
sometimes i feel like its Apple's ego which comes in between putting these features.
shl_ok wrote:
The discussion is quite old but indeed one of the few features that are missing from iPhone.
So, submit your feedback to Apple:
I'm guessing that not very many people have over the years as Apple hasn't seen fit to add the feature.
Also a basic feature like mobile data enable disable is missing.
I can enable and disable cellular data on my iPhone. If you can't, either you don't have an iPhone or you haven't looked at settings. Additionally, for most people there is little need to access such a switch very often.
shl_ok wrote:
Also a basic feature like mobile data enable disable is missing.
You mean Settings > Cellular data - ON/Off?
Dude... I was referring to a mobile data on off switch not being available either in control centre or as a short cut key. Most of the other OS give this as a basic feature
Is there a way to dial a contact by just typing its name in the keypad....as one can do in all the blackberry and android dialers...it is quite a job first to find the contact and then dial..
