not an apple user, but most cel’s use a “doubletap” for redial … or of course if you doubletap (accidentally) a name it will dial it …
also … is it a “regular phone call” (as opposed to a whatsapp voice call) … as those UI are pretty similar - could help diagnose where you go off track.
It’s usually a regular phone call, but it could be a face-time call, and more times than not, it’s the last person I was speaking to. I typically end the call, touch the hang up button, and then immediately slip the phone into the holster, so it’s happening after I hang up, but while the phone app is still on the screen. What I don’t do is turn off the screen before putting my phone back, which is what some are suggesting I need to get into the habit of doing…
I should dig into how to do an auto-redial to see what buttons need to be pushed, in what order, to make that happen intentionally. Knowledge it power.
I figure out how to reproduce the problem at will. After finishing a call and hanging up, while putting my iPhone in the holster I am either touching the green phone button twice with my palm, which causes a redial of my last call, or after touching the screen somewhere with my palm, that automatically brings up my favorites list. Then by touching one of those numbers with my palm again causes a random dial-out. I found it happens that way about 25% of the time I put my phone away without thinking.
The best way to fix this is to simply lock my phone before I put it back in the holster, but that requires remembering to lock it. The other option is to switch my holster to the right side. This will force me to pass the phone from my left hand, where I hold it when talking on it, to my right hand, so I can slide it into the holster. This awkward passing from one hand to the other will hopefully force me to remember to lock the phone before putting it away, which should solve the problem… time will tell.
Haven’t ever thought about it, but that’s what I do - holster hangs on the right front pocket, phone in the left hand for calls, if not on a hands-free call.
I’m trying to understand how OP even touches the screen if they’re not intending to. If you’re handling the device by grasping the screen and back, butt dialing is quite possibly the least damaging thing you could do.
It’s why phones have edges.
I’ve never “butt dialed” but a friend does it all the time. Interesting, we have the exact same phone.
My phone is in a case, and I’m gripping the case with my hand, but when I slide it into the holster the inside of my fingers and palm rub against the screen. It may due to my smallish hands, or due to the motion of sliding the phone into the holster. Either way, that’s really the problem, and I can easily reproduce it without really trying.
Automatic actions are important^ but can be changed once you are conscious of them. It may be one thing to bite your nails, but it is another to do it for half an hour upon request. You will have to find some way to turn your phone off before replacing it. Perhaps you could offer yourself some small reward if you do it for five or ten consecutive tries, and then this behaviour will also become automatic.
^ No? Try running down the steps thinking precisely where and when you are going to plant your feet. Too much thinking is unhelpful.
For sure. Teams for Android has a terrible feature (OK, more than one, but ONE of its terrible features) is that a Teams Live presentation pauses if you turn the screen off. We have company meetings with slides that I don’t need to see, so I’ll go for a walk. I do this all the time during calls, and will turn the screen off when I put the phone in my pocket. As you might imagine, this makes Teams Live meetings painful for me.
Delete the phone app. It is, by far, the least used app on my phone aside from other preinstalled shovelware that came with it.
Umm… it’s the only way someone can call me, so no…
How can I stop butt dialing the world?
Try deleting all 8 billion contacts from your directory. Sure, it will take a while, but it should solve the problem.
Thank you, but no. I’d rather continue butt dialing them if that was my only option.
You say that like it’s the only way to get ahold of you.
Well, I suppose you could text or message me on Facebook, but sometimes a phone call makes mores sense, especially if it’s a long conversation or something urgent someone needs to tell me. Don’t you have a phone for communicating with the outside world?
I bounce all phone calls until they text me why it’s important to actually jibber jabber at each other. And even then, they don’t often convince me. But it does happen every now and then.
So what does “bounce phone calls” mean? You simply ignore them? Then why have a phone at all?
If it’s an unknown contact, they get completely ignored. 96/100 times it’s spam.
If it’s someone in my contact list, 9/10 times I reject the call and, if I even want to talk to them, I’ll text them asking why they are calling. If they convince me it’s worth completely dropping whatever I’m doing just to hear them yap in my earholes, then I’ll call them back.
Regardless, I haven’t butt dialed anyone in a decade or so.
I don’t answer calls from anyone not on my contacts list, since as you said, they are likely spam callers, and if they’re not, they will leave a message for me. If they are on my contacts list, I don’t want to ignore them and then have to text them to find out why they wanted to call me, and then have a phone conversation. That’s a complete waste of my time. I guess I’m never too busy to talk to someone if they bother to call me to chat. I only get a handful of calls a day. Vive la différence!
A day!!! I get like one or two a month! Excluding spam bullshit. Though I’ve been training my contacts for quite a a while to not bother me via voice calls unless entirely necessary for years now. I consider it really fucking rude to demand my full attention at their whim just yap about bullshit.