The recent dock sharing post surprised me because of how many people had the Phone app in the dock.
I personally open it maybe once a month if I have to call a number I don’t have in my phone and if I call anyone I know it’s just through the Messages app since it’s all right there on the contact. Because of this I haven’t had the phone app on my dock for years.
Am I generally alone in this or were non Phone app users just not very present in that thread?
Making calls through the Messages app is like sending messages through the Telephone app
Yes I do. I mostly call and hardly message. My work also mostly involves phone calls. No one responds on time to messages and most of the time they ask me why I didn’t call if it was important. So calls. Or WhatsApp calls.
The phone app has always been in the bottom left on my dock and probably always will be. But, honestly no… I’ve had my phone for 2 years and only have 11 hours logged of actual phone calls. I usually really prefer to message people. For longer chats with friends elsewhere in the world, I usually use Discord instead. Actual phone calls are usually reserved for situations where I need an answer right away and/or my hands are full.
I’ve noticed this seems to be a bit of a cultural/social circle thing. Some people seem to always be on the phone and treat that as the default way to talk to people… other people are more like me, I guess, and only use it in very specific situations.
A lot of people have tech illiterate parents and other relatives, so regular cellular phone calls still take place.
Are you saying your make voice calls through messages or you just text instead of speaking?
Nope, phone app is nowhere near my top 4 most used apps. Probably not even top 10
Always thought this was kinda strange too haha I make like 4 calls a week, and half of those I use siri to make. Hasn’t been on my dock in years
I don’t get what the uproar is. I don’t have the phone app on my dock. I have Messages, Safari, WhatsApp and Spotify. Hell, I could prob survive life by just having YouTube instead of Messages on the dock and just interacting with the dock lol.
I use the Phone app about 3-4 times a week and it’s on my first screen where unsurprisingly, all my most used apps are which means I’m nearly always on that screen. So for me, it’s not really an inconvenience to not have it on my dock.
Edit: I take that back, I remembered the existence of Google Maps 4 seconds after posting.
Phone is one of the last reach for me. Only for those at the fringe of smartphones and still thinking a phone as a voice calling device.
Yea i don’t have the phone app. Spotlight can allow me to dial directly. Any calls are in the notifications. Hardly need it. Others will catch up your just ahead of the curb.
Yes, almost daily. It’s phonebook and messages I barely use. They are still in my dock though.
Yes because when I want to make a call it’s usually for a really important reason that I might want to be able to do quickly.
The Phone app to me is like a fire extinguisher: I don’t use it every day but when I do, it’s usually an emergency and I wanna make sure it’s where I left it.
Almost daily. I have people in my favorites like my wife, mother, father(when he was alive), best friends. I look at missed calls, I check voicemails(yes, Gen Z people, voicemail, because the grown-ups still leave voicemails sometimes). To dial people in my contacts I sometimes open contacts, sometimes open the phone app.
I also have the Google voice app in my dock. For anything business - aka that’s not personal like friends and family - I use GV, and give out my GV number. I got burned with scam calls, and it was a royal pain to change phone numbers.
And don’t come at me with the “check ur emails”
I use the phone often, maybe daily, but it’s. It in my dock. I have several apps that supersede the phone
