Hello Everyone.
I'm wondering if someone can help me out. Recently out of curiosity,
i've been doing a comparison between apps and features I use on my
android phone and on my iPhone. 1 Feature I came across was repeat
reminders. On my android, I have an app that keeps reminding me if i've
missed a call or text message until I unlock my phone and read the text.
This function has come in very useful when I've been in meetings or left
my phone on my desk and come back to it. Many phones have had a
persistent reminder option on them since the late 80's.
Now to the iPhone. It appears that Apple in their wisdom have only
implemented this function partially. You can set missed SMS reminders,
but the phone will only vibrate or beep a maximum of 10 times in a 20
minute period. This means if you're away from your iPhone for an hour
and someone texts you, the phone will only beep for a maximum of 20
minutes before stopping. After that, the only way of finding out that
there's anything that needs your attention would be to unlock your
iPhone and check out the notifications.
I'm not one of these people who are always glued to their phones, so I'd
very much like this function to be implemented. I've been researching
this online, and apparently apple users have been requesting the feature
since 2007 but Apple have not listened and they've been slagged off as a
result.
This would be very useful from an accessibility point of view as well.
As far as I know, voiceover doesn't acknowledge flashing lights or
include a feature to repeatedly notify you that something needs your
attention. Ideally, I'd like the app to notify me of missed calls with a
different tone, unread sms messages with a different tone and unread
emails with a different tone.
Prof reminder on android does all this beautifully. Has noone written an
app for iOS that does all this? I don't want to have to jale break my
phone just to achieve this functionality.
Can someone please write an app to add this simple function? I for 1
would certainly buy it. I don't care if it puts an extra drain on my
battery.
All the best,
Mo.
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