What is extremely common in real life but almost never happens on TV or movies?

Choosing a ringtone that is not the factory default.

Oh, yes. Twenty years ago I imagined a meeting of the design group for a new smart phone. "Gentlemen, we have our work cut out for us. We need to come up with twenty different ringtones, every one of which is annoying.:

And there’s that one ringtone that was SO ubiquitous on TV series back in the '90s that I assumed it was paid product placement.

I think it was the first default Nokia ring… but by the time the shows were shot and produced and aired, people had other ringtones.

I still hear it sometimes and it’s such an anomaly.

The tool you need was left at home.