I would absolutely love this, I would never answer a call again and it would be completely justified.
“Sorry I didn’t answer, I was just in the middle of an urgent task and didn’t know how long you wanted the call to last”
Next iOS version: setting that forces calls to be automatically answered, and turns on the recipient’s speakerphone at max volume
That’s what we call a walkie-talkie.
Is there a preference that automatically end calls after 120 seconds?
Automatic driving-through-a-tunnel option. Perhaps also a spotty-connection option.
I think there used to be an app to make fake background sounds in calls. Doubt it exists now due to higher security.
“Hey Siri, set a 2 minute timer”
Answer call
Alarm goes off
Put phone into airplane mode
Problem solved
I remember landlines in the UK actually operating like this in the nineties. If you hung up, the line would stay open until the caller ended the call. It doesn’t make any sense and I remember being surprised when it didn’t happen when the caller was on a mobile phone.
Maybe our cable company’s exchanges were misconfigured? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t happen these days. You could never hang up on unsolicited sales calls for example.
It happened with some analogue lines and particular phones. The line would stay active while a voltage was applied. Initially, the caller would provide it. It would then change to allow both to drop it. Some phones would keep the line high, hell or high water, basically jamming it open.
Call center employees feel this pain.
Omg yes. The “you can’t hang up before the customer
diesdoes” rule was painful. Some people really do call in to catch up with whatever friend picks up that day. I had one woman give me her entire medical history over the phone and I didn’t know how to deal with that when starting off on the job.(Funny autocorrection, leaving it in 😂)
Really? I’ll start just muting and silencing telemarketers.
Can’t have a connected call if the power is off. Also terrible UI. If someone did this to me they would have a 10 hr phone call of whatever I was doing.
“You cannot turn off this phone while a call is active.”
- places phone in microwave. (Faraday Cage)
“Connection restored… reconnecting previous call”
this made me snort my coffee
Well, they will learn the term forced education.
Slow your roll, Satan
