Lmao it's always fun to hear what great features iPhones have.

It’s less customisable but your 10yr old cousin and 78yr old grandmother find it easy to use. It’s a silent switch. Turn it to silent and your phone cannot make a sound without an interaction by you. Very simple and easy to understand. If you want more granular control of this in iOS you’ll have to use a combination of Focus modes and Shortcuts. Personally I think of be pretty easy for Apple to retain the simplistic silent mode AND add setting level granular control too.

My phone has been on mute with vibration turned off since I got an Apple Watch in 2015.

Using the customizable do not disturb function helps alot

All my devices are mute, except when i’m expecting an important call / message.

Has nothing to do with the points you’re saying

I bought my first iPhone this year -- the 15 Pro. I am considering switching over back to Samsung when their next flagship comes out, because iPhone is unsafe to use when not on mute. Each time I have gotten a Messenger notification while on call I had tinnitus in my ear for the next couple of minutes. I have set up an automation which lowers the ringer volume when I put on my airpods, but there is no automation possible to do the same when I pick up a call. I have submitted a bug report to Apple too. I just don't want to get tinnitus every time someone texts me when I'm on a call.

I definitely miss having more control about the phone sounds on Android

Apple thinks their consumers are 50 IQ idiots who don’t know how to use settings, it’s their way or the highway. I think they should make an advanced mode which lets you customize a lot more while keeping the current state as the default for majority of people.

Oh, yes. Annoying as hell.

Because apple knows best, silly.

Is this a genuine thing? I've always been an android user but my new work phone is an iPhone. I've spent the past month alternating between having it on silent and missing calls, or playing with the settings trying to turn off the camera shutter noise so I can have the ringtone on.

Just disable change ringtone volume with volume buttons.

One of the most annoying things about my iPhone when I was using it. After missing my morning alarm twice, I had to resort to a secondary Android phone for backup alarms.

thats why i always got it either unmuted and on dnd or muted and not on dnd

There are some awesome features on iPhone. But Android does what I want it to, not what Apple thinks is best.

On my list is muting by app, or defaulting all apps to muted until toggled on like Chrome tabs. It's so nice to not have random ads blow up my music or podcast. Also then maybe Spotify won't take over audio in my car.

I love/hate the feature as it works about 80% of the time the right way and the other 20% of the time is infuriating.

It'd be nice if they had a volume section in settings where you could see EACH specific volume type laid out and settable. I could set my Carplay's ringtone volume for the longest time because generally people don't call me that much and the first few times they did it would blast the audio through my car at near max volume and I'd forget to set the volume down before answering so it always stayed at max volume!

OTOH, I always have my ringer turned off because I wear an apple watch and just get all my calls/notifications through vibrations on my wrist!

Every time I play music through a my google nest and start watching a video I am in pain . Oh you want to listen to the video? Pretty sure you want to turn the music up at the same time right ?

Yeah they should change this tbh

Welp if you didn't watch the hub or ss photos in public you wouldn't need to silence.

Careful if you guys get too much freedom itll be called the Idroid

This is something that has annoyed me since switching to iPhone for the first time, doesn’t help there’s an audio bug too where sounds become crazy loud regardless of your ringer volume

Wait really? How is that still a thing?

My phones on silent 24/7 so never notice

Only a muted phone is a good phone.

Real ones remember when Apple had separate ringer and media volume controls

Maybe Apple will create this new never seen before feature and everyone will be amazed..maybe even put it behind a premium pay wall

Yes it’s silly!! My ringer volume is tied to the volume on the Facebook app. WHY?! It makes no sense.

I’m one of the weird ones that hate my phone making any kind of noise, so this lack of feature doesn’t bother me.

Ever since I bought a watch that vibrates my wrist for alerts, I’ve turned off any kind of noise. I don’t need alerted twice.

Mine is turned off because I get my notifications and calls via my watch.

I know this aint really a proper solution... but it also is a solution.

dont buy and use an iphone?

i like apple's computers

but their phones are stupid

As a brand new iPhone user as of 3 weeks ago, this is so infuriating. It’s such a simple idea and would be so easy to implement, so why has apple not done this?

‘Member when Nokia allowed you to switch profiles with the power button?

Suck on them titties Tim.

I just want to be able to make custom notification sounds for each app that doesn’t have a unique default one.

Apple software team is stubborn. People have cried for proper audio and video routing. It gets worse when you air play to the tv and choose to use other apps; any video or audio on the phone will take over the entire airplay. Connect an iPad to a monitor and the sound routes to the monitor even if there are no speakers and you can’t do anything about it.

i think you can turn off screenshot noises in settings

“We, at Apple, value your focus for the most important thing you love. That’s why we implemented the mute all feature. Want message notifications but want to turn off camera shutter sound? Not happening. It’s all or nothing. It’s about YOU. puts this in the new features for new iPhones as a plus

As a recent convert from Samsung I just realized this and now I’m annoyed. I always use to have my alert notification on and phone ringer disabled, i just realized I always leave my iPhone on silent and never receive any audible alerts. I’ve noticed I respond to less texts initially on iPhone and then remember a day or two later that I never responded. Maybe not having an audible alert is causing some of that along with a horrible status/notification hub.

I have a custom ringtone that is just silence. I can still have my other system sounds and no ring.

Buy good phone please.

This is what makes no sense with iPhones…my android was so fcking easy to set up I could pick and choose what I wanted to be silent or vibrate or ring. Apple was just like fuck it we’ll remove the ringer slider altogether.

Never thought about it, but this is partially true.

That was the same for me as well on samsung, only difference was that ringtone and notifications are separate things

Maybe go and look at your notifications settings…

No one calls or writes me so it’s a non issue.

No it’s not.

At some point we’ve been listening to the Apple tune, nobody gave a fuck about screenshot sounds, then around 10 years ago everyone went mute. And folks that force us to listen to the standard Samsung tune will burn in hell.

We’re overloaded with notifications, let us live in peace.

I only left MS Teams notifications as they’re related to my job. That’s it.

Because I don't want to be forced to look at my phone at any and all notifications that are popping off.
Nowadays apps force you to accept notifications by the app and make it difficult in a labyrinth in the settings, to disable it.

I also silenced everything msgs and calls. If it's rlly urgent and you're not on my white list you'll call twice (repeated calls) and it'll go through.

Messages I'll reply when I have time for it. Everyone's so anxious about having to reply immediately, me fk no.
I have "do not disturb" on 24/7 and only certain ppl white listed.

My way to fight against this perceived need to be available all the time.

ugh so much this. it’s been bothering me.

I always keep sounds off for everything and phone calls on. If someone is texting me its not an emergency. If its an emergency Im not aware of, then call me. If Im expecting a text, I check my phone then more often. Additionally, I have apple watch so most notifications go through the watch anyway (sound off always)

Yeah they need to change that. Android is so much better with that. I want my alarms loud always, there’s times I missed my alarm because my ringer was too low and I forgot to turn them up before bed. Now I use both my phones for alarms just in case. My android alarm is bulletproof.