It is a good concept tbh. I even miss the physical ringer switch when Im on Android (unless it’s a OnePlus)
How much money do you all think Apple paid Will Sattelberg to write this ‘article’?
Any time I’ve switched to android over the years that little switch is one of the biggest, yet smallest features on the iPhone that I end up really missing. It is so convenient, and now that it’s reprogrammable with different taps it will be even better.
The silence switch on the left side of the iPhone has been around for forever
Looking at my iPhone 11 Pro work gave me and it’s silent switch on the side. Lol
Definitely out already.
I never liked the physical switch because I would switch it on accident. I want my phone on vibrate 99.9% of the time, so the switch is kind of wasted space, which is why I like the idea of the programmable button better than the switch.
Android actually improved their silent/vibrate/ring switching a couple of years ago. You no longer need to go into the settings or even the quick settings. You just press one of the volume buttons, and a little pop-up comes up showing your volume level. On that pop-up, there’s a button to toggle the silent/vibrate/ring state. I think it’s easy enough, but you do need to have your screen on, which I could see defeating the purpose for people who use that feature a lot.
so like Samsung had the Bixby button for half a decade now? No, thanks.
also, a mute button is pointless when we can just hold the volume down for a second.
The Bixby button sucked because for so long you couldn’t remap it to do anything else. And even when they finally relented at the end, they only allowed it to have the functions of press and hold or double tap to activate extra features, but single tap was always still reserved for Bixby.
Having a dedicated mute button is good when your default volume controls are for media volume. Not that it makes a difference for me because my phone is forever on vibrate, but I get the utility.
You could always just download an app to remap it with far more functionality. Used to love that feature.
Yes, but you had to set up Bixby first which I refused to do, so just cut off the part of my phone case that pushed the button so I’d stop accidentally pressing it.
That’s just the lock/power button, I think. Press to lock or wake, double tap for camera, hold to turn off/restart.
The Bixby button was a bit different, and lived on the opposite side of the phone from the power button.
The mute toggle on iPhone doesn’t mute media if you play something with it enabled, and you can still increase/decrease the volume of that, you just don’t get any notification sounds. So bit different than just turning the volume down for the whole device.
I keep mute enabled all the time because I get the notifications on my watch, and I forget it’s on because media still plays with sound. It’s actually really nice. One of the few things I actually like about iPhone.
RIP onepluses alert slider, loved it
They ditched the alert slider? When? I’m on a OnePlus 6, and have been considering installing LineageOS on it to give it a few more years of life. The alert slider is one of the reasons why I don’t want to give it up just yet.
No, they still have the alert slider. It wasn’t on the OnePlus 10, but they brought it back on the 11 and it looks like it will be included on the upcoming 12.
The slider was probably the feature that I liked least about my OnePlus phones, and it was actually a factor in me deciding to not get a OnePlus phone again. Unlike the iPhone switch, which had an action that was perpendicular to the direction that my phone was moving when putting it into my pocket, the OnePlus phone’s slider was parallel to that movement. So the slider would change positions every time my phone would go into my pocket. I like my phone on vibrate 99.9% of the time, so I always needed it in the middle position, which was the hardest one to get it into. I always found myself wishing I could disable that feature, but I never found a way to.
