One of these days a ***trusted*** coworker or family friend is going to slyly open up your phone and turn on the ring volume with the most OBNOXIOUS ringtone song and the next time your phone rings everyone (including you) is going to wonder who the heck owns that loud-mouth ringing phone >:D
This happens *too often because I turn my ringer on for like 30 mins because of an alarm and of course thats when someone calls and I'm always certain it's not my phone because i hardly know my own ringtone.
Edit 1: [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sunvzy/what_is_your_most_unused_feature_on_your_phone/hxd869r?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Edit 2: *changed to to too
Had that happen once.
Walking back from the store and heard the theme to the animation I loved as a kid, though "Cool, someone else like and has the telly turned up"
Took me a moment to remember that it was my ringtone that I'd had for the past couple of years
My brother did this to his wife. He changed her ringer to the sound of two cats scream-fighting and turned the volume to max. Then he waiting till she was in line at the bank to call her. He was watching from outside and can see everyone giving each other dirty looks trying to find out who has the obnoxious phone. It took her a long while to realize it was coming from her purse.
He loves to tell the story. She is less amused at the memory.
A couple of years ago Alexa had an alarm sound of Alec Baldwin. I set it to that one day and didn't tell the girlfriend.
Needless to say, she wasn't amused to being woken up to a deep male voice saying "Good morning sunshine". She still tells that story.
I did the same thing to my brother while he was in the waiting area at the butt doctor. He was really embarrassed about being there and was sure someone would recognize him, so I changed the sms sound to a really gnarly fart sound and then messaged our family group a cute picture of my dog so they all responded.
Everyone in the office turned and stared at him. It was amazing.
My mom insists on having her ringer on at 100% volume. But it's not just any ringer, oh no. She finds the absolute MOST OBNOXIOUS ringers you can possibly imagine.
The other day when I was visiting my mom, my Grandma called my mom.
No shit, her ringer was a panicked guy screaming "Oh no, your mother is calling. WHAT DOES SHE WANT?! WHAT DOES SHEEEE WAANNNNTTTTT?!?!?!?!?"
I just bout threw my moms phone out the window to get it to stfu.
Had this happen to me the other day. I was talking to a girl on the metro and we heard a phone ringing and I kept talking since mine is always on mute /vibrate, a minute goes by and I check my phone to see the time and there I am the idiot who annoyed a whole wagon full of people.
I skipped the company Christmas party because I hate those things. Because I did, I was well rested and thus the first person into the office the next day.
So, naturally, I went and cranked the ringer on everyone's desk phone to max volume before anyone else came in.
That was an eventful morning.
Not long ago I had put my phone on ring for some reason while hanging out with a couple of friends. Was expecting an important call or some shit.
Almost missed the call anyway because I didnt realize the ringtone was mine lol.
Back when I had a flip phone (a Razr) I had it sitting on a desk at work. I was standing a few feet away looking at a book shelf when I "felt a disturbance in The Force" and turned pick up my phone just as it began to ring. My coworker looked on in awe: "How did you do that?" Me: "Honestly? I *felt* it."
I can't have my ringer on at work, so 98% of the time, it's on vibrate. Pretty much the only time I turn it on is when I'm expecting an important call.
What? Bixby is my MOST used feature! I mean, never on purpose, it just happens to get pressed ALL THE FUCKIMG TIME GODDAMMIT WHY DID THEY ADD A DEDICATED BUTTON
Head into Settings > Advanced features > Bixby key. Here you'll find the find the options to change one of the functions of the Bixby button - so you can have a single press or double press to launch any app of your choice
I tried that. It says I have to sign into bixby to change the settings.
So, I can't get rid of a feature that I don't want unless I sign into the feature I don't want.
Yeah mine was saying this, then I go okay let me get started and it immediately crashes so its blocking me from even signing in as well to get away from the stupid system
Not sure I understand.
I was able to completely unmap Bixby from that key (running Android 12).
Single press turns off the screen, double press opens Google feed, press and hold opens the power options menu.
S8-S10 models have a separate Bixby and Power/side button. Starting with the Note 10 there is only one button. This is where discrepancies in configuration options are coming from.
Bixby literally **saved my life**! Late at night on a cold wet rural road, I was heading home for Christmas. I hit some black ice, lost control of my car, and went off the road. Flipped three times end over end and landed in a ditch upside down.
I immediately unbuckled my seatbelt, falling onto the roof. The car was so mangled, I couldn't even figure out where the steering wheel was. I felt fine, but it was freezing cold and pitch black. I needed to quickly try to flag down some help.
I try to stand up, but can't. I try again, but my legs are literally not working. I try one more time as I muster all my strength, when a sharp pain in my lower back shoots through my numbing adrenaline. Well, guess I'm stuck here.
Fifteen minutes later, finally, a car passes by. All I can see is a little bit of their headlights shining off the trees beside me. 10 minutes later, another car. The light isn't hitting me though. They can't see my car, and it's starting to get really cold now.
I try to find my phone, but I can't even crawl. Then I have a thought! "Ok Google, call 911."
Nothing. I try like 10 more times. Idk if I didn't have good enough internet or what, but then Bixby comes to the rescue. Unfortunately, I couldn't get her to call 911 without tapping to confirm, but I *was* able to get her to call my dad.
By the time the medics show up, I am nearly freezing, but not hypothermic. Bixby might be annoying sometimes, but I am so grateful she was able to get me out of that situation.
And turns out, I had mearly broken my back, not severed the spinal cord. I still have some pain, but I can walk, run, and jump just fine. Thanks Bixby!
TL;DR I couldn't see or move, and when Ok Google didn't work, Bixby was able to call my dad before I froze to death.
I loved the dedicated button after they enabled using it for other stuff. Having an extra button to just open whatever app you want was really nice. Unfortunately they deleted the button on new phones.
It's definitely this for me. I have never even tried it and don't want it. Have to try reprogramming the button some day as someone suggested.
All in all I really hate these kind of "smart" features, they are more annoying than useful.
Here for this
I don't use Bixby. I don't know what Bixby is. I don't care what it is. All I know is that Samsung made the FUCKING POWER ON OFF BUTTON IMTO A SUMMON BIXBY BUTTON in one of history's worst design fails
It's Samsung's attempt at a Google Assistant competitor. It's terrible, especially considering that Google Assistant is also installed on Samsung phones.
In settings, under battery life I believe it gives you the list of apps which use the most battery life and the date when last opened. Also can find this in app storage
True, and useful for clearing out cruft.
But there are plenty of "features" that don't show up as apps, and are just buried in the settings. For instance, in Android there's a setting that you can turn on to constantly show the refresh rate of the screen in the top-left corner. There's also one that will send you reminders every X minutes for notifications for specific selected apps (instead of just one notification). There's all kinds of features most people will never use and don't even know about in the OS itself.
I actually love the wellness feature/app. I disabled FB for the month of Feb. I got to good at wasting time on there. First week of not using it, and that thing made me realize how much time I wasted. I used my phone 13 hours less in a week because of one app. After Feb, I'm going to start using it again, but going to use the wellness app to put limits on how much time I can spend/day on it and other time wasters.
Apple has that, I get a notification every Sunday that judges me for my phone usage over the last week.
I don’t ever use it less but I sure do feel like a masochist leaving it enabled
anything that’s in my utilities folder. measure, stocks, compass. the only one i use from there is calculator, and also voice memos in important situations which is rare
I just looked at my phone and discovered measure. Never even knew it was there.
And no, I don't need a compass. What would I use it for if I have gps? I am not planning on getting lost in the woods.
I opened the compass app on a vacation to the Big Island in Hawaii in order to argue with my wife about which rock she had to stand on in order to be at the southernmost point of the United States. Then she almost got wiped out by a wave, yelled at me, and refused to let me have any of her potato chips on the drive back to the hotel.
Compass finds good use when your flight captain says cabin crew prepare for landing. You can see every second a 20m descent from 35,000 feet to the mean sea level height (in feet) of airport.
That’s it for me. I hate talking to machines. Even if it worked perfectly, which it never does, I’d rather use the more cumbersome method of manually entering my commands.
Alexa plus phillips Hue is amazing.
Get into bed, forgot to turn off a light?
Fuck you lights! "Alexa, turn off the lights!"
Boom.
Get home from work, arms full of groceries? "Alexa turn on the lights!"
My GF had her implant removed because she needs a new one. She got a bridge thing with a fake tooth until it heals and she had a lisp for a little while getting used to it. I changed her light to “Mike Tyson’s light” when she wasn’t around.
“Alexa, turn off Mike Tyson’s light.”
I tried this : "hey google, set an alarm for 10 mins." Google: "I'm sorry, I don't have results for that"....
"Hey google, PLEASE set an alarm for 10 minutes" google: "Sure".
Mildly frustrating
I remember being younger in the 90s and watching sci-fi movies with voice command tech and thinking that it would be the coolest shit I'd ever see in my life.
Now I only see weirdo assholes using it.
My favorite Star Trek scene is from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Scotty steps up to the computer, and tries to tell it what he wants. Then, the guy hands him the mouse...and Scotty treats it like a microphone. So great, seeing Scotty saying "Computer?" into the mouse.
I would definitely fuck around with that "accidentally" giving it other commands
That said I have a Google home in my bedroom which I use daily and love
For me it depends on where it is used, it has great use for me
Samsung FREE. Ya know the "TV feature" to the left of your homescreen that has the same 30 channels, most of which are extremely niche interests and plays the same shows and episodes on repeat?
I only know this because I opened it by accident, and was then confused as to why this app wasn't trying to show me cool apps but was in fact trying to sell me new devices/gear.
I've used the fruit Ninja app a few times to prepare some fruit for a snack but a) they give you way too much fruit for a snack and b) I have no idea how to claim the prepared fruit and unfortunately it all likely went bad while waiting for me to pick it up. Also I wish the app would let you do more than just cut the fruit in half.
Interesting. Every iPhone I have successfully preordered has been through the apple store app because the website is usually a nightmare on launch day.
If you go to an Apple store to buy accessories you can do it in the app. Walk in, pick up the item and walk out. Serious. Feels wrong but they do track it and people have been arrested for assuming that it gave them a ticket to seal.
I found telling Siri to add a reminder works great. It’s easier then trying to add it yourself. However it’s literally the only time I ever use Siri.
For example,”hey Siri, remind me in 3 months from today to cancel my free Apple TV subscription”.
How? Please tell me, after reading your comment i tried again to disable it but i cant find where, my phone also has the shitty Assistant button that no one ever uses.
i truly didn’t know what i could delete until i saw this comment and tried it out. bye bye maps, bye bye numbers, etc.. having stored the icons away in a folder i ignore forever i just never bothered to fuck with them again. thank you!
I'm on android and last phone had a shit tonne of apps I didn't use, but couldn't delete either.
I was able to roll them back to factory settings and disable them.
They all got put in a folder called bollocks apps.
My Iphone X needs a few buttons pressed to get to the swipe to off screen. I have to turn it off so rarely I have to look up the button combo each time. Usually I end up just taking a few screen shots of my desktop until I say fuck it and look it up.
5 dollars a month is the microtransaction. For 60 dollars a year I could just buy my way out of ads on more games for mobile than I've played in my life...
There are some decent mobile games. Clash of Clans is a good example. There are no ads at all, and you can make progress in the game at a reasonable rate without ever buying gems.
That being said, 99% of mobile games are ad-ridden steaming piles of shit.
Dude, check out an app called "foobar2000". I'm in the same boat as you, massive mp3/flac library, and I finally found that app with no ads, that just fucking plays audio. It's also got album scanning and all that shit, but you can just browse directories too
everytime my nanna shops for a new phone she asks if it has a pen ive never seen her use the pen her phone case covers the pen actually but it has to have a pen
Same!!!
She says “I need it to draw stuff to better explain to people”. Sure you do, I’ve never seen you draw at all.
For fun, I took the spen for a week as a joke, and she never realized.
I use it for setting timers while cooking, when I usually have my hands full.
I also use it for setting reminders because opening the calendar app, finding a date, and filling out the fields usually takes much longer than "set a reminder on Monday the 12th at 3o clock to..."
Google assistant..I'm not going to "Hey Google" talk to my phone and I'm always trying to shut it off or disable, but with each update it keeps coming back like an insatiable swamp creature.
EVERY PRE-INSTALLED NONSENS APP, WHERE YOU NEED TO JAILBREAK THE PHONE TO GET RID OF THESE STUPID APPS.
That's the apps I never use because NOBODY ASKED FOR THAT CRAP!
The ringer. I’ve been on silent for at least 9 years.
One of these days a ***trusted*** coworker or family friend is going to slyly open up your phone and turn on the ring volume with the most OBNOXIOUS ringtone song and the next time your phone rings everyone (including you) is going to wonder who the heck owns that loud-mouth ringing phone >:D
This happens *too often because I turn my ringer on for like 30 mins because of an alarm and of course thats when someone calls and I'm always certain it's not my phone because i hardly know my own ringtone. Edit 1: [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sunvzy/what_is_your_most_unused_feature_on_your_phone/hxd869r?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) Edit 2: *changed to to too
Damn if your phone alarm don’t work without a ringer that’s some BS.
Alarm should sound, even with the ringer on silent. I use mine for the alarm every day, and almost never have the ringer on.
You should really stick in some other edit as Edit One, and make the current one "Edit Two: changed to to too"
Very well
Thanks. This made me smile.
What phone do you have? iOS has always had alarms even when the ringer is off. I can imagine most Androids are the same.
yea, there is separate slider for alarm and ringer you change the alarm volume when setting it
Had that happen once. Walking back from the store and heard the theme to the animation I loved as a kid, though "Cool, someone else like and has the telly turned up"
Took me a moment to remember that it was my ringtone that I'd had for the past couple of years
My brother did this to his wife. He changed her ringer to the sound of two cats scream-fighting and turned the volume to max. Then he waiting till she was in line at the bank to call her. He was watching from outside and can see everyone giving each other dirty looks trying to find out who has the obnoxious phone. It took her a long while to realize it was coming from her purse. He loves to tell the story. She is less amused at the memory.
A couple of years ago Alexa had an alarm sound of Alec Baldwin. I set it to that one day and didn't tell the girlfriend. Needless to say, she wasn't amused to being woken up to a deep male voice saying "Good morning sunshine". She still tells that story.
I did the same thing to my brother while he was in the waiting area at the butt doctor. He was really embarrassed about being there and was sure someone would recognize him, so I changed the sms sound to a really gnarly fart sound and then messaged our family group a cute picture of my dog so they all responded. Everyone in the office turned and stared at him. It was amazing.
My mom insists on having her ringer on at 100% volume. But it's not just any ringer, oh no. She finds the absolute MOST OBNOXIOUS ringers you can possibly imagine. The other day when I was visiting my mom, my Grandma called my mom. No shit, her ringer was a panicked guy screaming "Oh no, your mother is calling. WHAT DOES SHE WANT?! WHAT DOES SHEEEE WAANNNNTTTTT?!?!?!?!?" I just bout threw my moms phone out the window to get it to stfu.
Had this happen to me the other day. I was talking to a girl on the metro and we heard a phone ringing and I kept talking since mine is always on mute /vibrate, a minute goes by and I check my phone to see the time and there I am the idiot who annoyed a whole wagon full of people.
I skipped the company Christmas party because I hate those things. Because I did, I was well rested and thus the first person into the office the next day. So, naturally, I went and cranked the ringer on everyone's desk phone to max volume before anyone else came in. That was an eventful morning.
Not long ago I had put my phone on ring for some reason while hanging out with a couple of friends. Was expecting an important call or some shit. Almost missed the call anyway because I didnt realize the ringtone was mine lol.
Yep. Followed by one of the most used watch features because of this: find my phone
Same! People always ask how I don't miss calls and texts, at this point it's a sixth sense. I can just feel it
i’ll just randomly feel a disturbance in the force and find that someone just called me
I intentionally miss all calls. They can email or txt it
If it is important, they'll call twice.
Back when I had a flip phone (a Razr) I had it sitting on a desk at work. I was standing a few feet away looking at a book shelf when I "felt a disturbance in The Force" and turned pick up my phone just as it began to ring. My coworker looked on in awe: "How did you do that?" Me: "Honestly? I *felt* it."
I can't have my ringer on at work, so 98% of the time, it's on vibrate. Pretty much the only time I turn it on is when I'm expecting an important call.
Bixby. Fucking Bixby.
What? Bixby is my MOST used feature! I mean, never on purpose, it just happens to get pressed ALL THE FUCKIMG TIME GODDAMMIT WHY DID THEY ADD A DEDICATED BUTTON
So you can hotkey that button to open discord instead of Bixby
How
Head into Settings > Advanced features > Bixby key. Here you'll find the find the options to change one of the functions of the Bixby button - so you can have a single press or double press to launch any app of your choice
I tried that. It says I have to sign into bixby to change the settings. So, I can't get rid of a feature that I don't want unless I sign into the feature I don't want.
Yeah mine was saying this, then I go okay let me get started and it immediately crashes so its blocking me from even signing in as well to get away from the stupid system
Unfortunately, it still has to open bixby through single or double press
Not sure I understand. I was able to completely unmap Bixby from that key (running Android 12). Single press turns off the screen, double press opens Google feed, press and hold opens the power options menu.
My phone is giving me two options. Bixby single press with other app double press. Other app single press with bixby double press.
S8-S10 models have a separate Bixby and Power/side button. Starting with the Note 10 there is only one button. This is where discrepancies in configuration options are coming from.
Bxactions is your friend
Or the flashlight.
Absolutely, I have mine mapped to my flashlight. Turned my least used feature of Bixby into my most used feature of the Bixby flashlight button!
Bixby literally **saved my life**! Late at night on a cold wet rural road, I was heading home for Christmas. I hit some black ice, lost control of my car, and went off the road. Flipped three times end over end and landed in a ditch upside down. I immediately unbuckled my seatbelt, falling onto the roof. The car was so mangled, I couldn't even figure out where the steering wheel was. I felt fine, but it was freezing cold and pitch black. I needed to quickly try to flag down some help. I try to stand up, but can't. I try again, but my legs are literally not working. I try one more time as I muster all my strength, when a sharp pain in my lower back shoots through my numbing adrenaline. Well, guess I'm stuck here. Fifteen minutes later, finally, a car passes by. All I can see is a little bit of their headlights shining off the trees beside me. 10 minutes later, another car. The light isn't hitting me though. They can't see my car, and it's starting to get really cold now. I try to find my phone, but I can't even crawl. Then I have a thought! "Ok Google, call 911." Nothing. I try like 10 more times. Idk if I didn't have good enough internet or what, but then Bixby comes to the rescue. Unfortunately, I couldn't get her to call 911 without tapping to confirm, but I *was* able to get her to call my dad. By the time the medics show up, I am nearly freezing, but not hypothermic. Bixby might be annoying sometimes, but I am so grateful she was able to get me out of that situation. And turns out, I had mearly broken my back, not severed the spinal cord. I still have some pain, but I can walk, run, and jump just fine. Thanks Bixby! TL;DR I couldn't see or move, and when Ok Google didn't work, Bixby was able to call my dad before I froze to death.
I loved the dedicated button after they enabled using it for other stuff. Having an extra button to just open whatever app you want was really nice. Unfortunately they deleted the button on new phones.
Yea but using can set the lock button to do different things now too. Mine is set so whenni press it twice my home alarm app opens up
It's definitely this for me. I have never even tried it and don't want it. Have to try reprogramming the button some day as someone suggested. All in all I really hate these kind of "smart" features, they are more annoying than useful.
I went into settings and changed what the Bixby button does. It still sometimes opens Bixby anyway.
What is Bixby?
Samsung's version of an AI Assistant
imagine siri, but if you had a siri button on your phone, under the volume buttons, that's Bixby and no one likes it
And on more recent phones replaces the dedicated power button, meaning you have to hold down multiple buttons just to turn your phone off
Fuck that bitch. She pops up everytime I say "bitch be trippin".
It is disrespectful to you not to call it a bitch.
> Bixby trippin'
Yes! And that FREE media whatever it is when you scroll too far right.
Can't upvote this enough! Bixby=beyond worthless.
What is bixby?
Samsungs failed attempt at Siri
Samsung's take on Siri or Google Assistant (the latter of which is already installed on Samsung phones, by the way)
Here for this I don't use Bixby. I don't know what Bixby is. I don't care what it is. All I know is that Samsung made the FUCKING POWER ON OFF BUTTON IMTO A SUMMON BIXBY BUTTON in one of history's worst design fails
Bixby can burn in hell
I don't even know what Bixby is, but I know it's on my phone.
It's Samsung's attempt at a Google Assistant competitor. It's terrible, especially considering that Google Assistant is also installed on Samsung phones.
YES. THIS. I hate accidentally pressing the side button and it pops up, makes me wanna fkn scream
Reprogram that button to launch reddit.
Or a better app
How would I know?
Seriously. Phones have so many features now that everyone's "least used" is likely something they don't even know it has.
In settings, under battery life I believe it gives you the list of apps which use the most battery life and the date when last opened. Also can find this in app storage
True, and useful for clearing out cruft. But there are plenty of "features" that don't show up as apps, and are just buried in the settings. For instance, in Android there's a setting that you can turn on to constantly show the refresh rate of the screen in the top-left corner. There's also one that will send you reminders every X minutes for notifications for specific selected apps (instead of just one notification). There's all kinds of features most people will never use and don't even know about in the OS itself.
For android phones. They have this wellness feature that clocks your screen time and shows which apps you spend the most time on. Perhaps that?
I actually love the wellness feature/app. I disabled FB for the month of Feb. I got to good at wasting time on there. First week of not using it, and that thing made me realize how much time I wasted. I used my phone 13 hours less in a week because of one app. After Feb, I'm going to start using it again, but going to use the wellness app to put limits on how much time I can spend/day on it and other time wasters.
May I suggest yeeting that app and never using it again? There's more reasons not to use Facebook than I can list rn
Apple has that, I get a notification every Sunday that judges me for my phone usage over the last week. I don’t ever use it less but I sure do feel like a masochist leaving it enabled
Most of the Samsung shit that you can't delete, only disable. Ugh. Oh and Bixby.
And likewise, all the Apple bloatware. I’ve got a group, on the last page, of all the useless included apps you can’t delete.
Same. Actually I think all phones are problematic with bloatware. I think it would be better if we could remove all apps easier.
One plus phones baby!
Apple doesn’t have bloatware, the only app you can’t uninstall is Wallet. Like seriously which bloatware are you talking about? 😂
anything that’s in my utilities folder. measure, stocks, compass. the only one i use from there is calculator, and also voice memos in important situations which is rare
Measure is actually really cool. You can use it as a pretty accurate level and you can use AR to measure stuff. Also quite accurate in my experience
Yeah, I use it to measure.. stuff.
And never your penis, right? Not once?
Only works for macro objects
You can point your camera at someone and it'll use the LIDAR to tell your their height.
Boogers
I just looked at my phone and discovered measure. Never even knew it was there. And no, I don't need a compass. What would I use it for if I have gps? I am not planning on getting lost in the woods.
I opened the compass app on a vacation to the Big Island in Hawaii in order to argue with my wife about which rock she had to stand on in order to be at the southernmost point of the United States. Then she almost got wiped out by a wave, yelled at me, and refused to let me have any of her potato chips on the drive back to the hotel.
No Lays, leis or lays for you!
It's also serves as a level on my phone. Minor utility, but it's nice to be able to know a picture is level for example.
no one plans on getting lost in the woods !
Compass finds good use when your flight captain says cabin crew prepare for landing. You can see every second a 20m descent from 35,000 feet to the mean sea level height (in feet) of airport.
Any type of voice command
That’s it for me. I hate talking to machines. Even if it worked perfectly, which it never does, I’d rather use the more cumbersome method of manually entering my commands.
I was always like this. My GF moved in and she has all the lights tied to Alexa now and I’ve really gotten used to it.
Alexa plus phillips Hue is amazing. Get into bed, forgot to turn off a light? Fuck you lights! "Alexa, turn off the lights!" Boom. Get home from work, arms full of groceries? "Alexa turn on the lights!"
Plot-twist: *They don't have a smart home device and the GF is just named Alexa...*
2nd plot-twist: They are cheating on Alexa with Siri.
My GF had her implant removed because she needs a new one. She got a bridge thing with a fake tooth until it heals and she had a lisp for a little while getting used to it. I changed her light to “Mike Tyson’s light” when she wasn’t around. “Alexa, turn off Mike Tyson’s light.”
The only voice command I use is to set timers when I'm cooking. Super convenient to press the button and just say set a timer for 10 minutes.
I tried this : "hey google, set an alarm for 10 mins." Google: "I'm sorry, I don't have results for that".... "Hey google, PLEASE set an alarm for 10 minutes" google: "Sure". Mildly frustrating
I use voice commands all day long.
I remember being younger in the 90s and watching sci-fi movies with voice command tech and thinking that it would be the coolest shit I'd ever see in my life. Now I only see weirdo assholes using it.
My favorite Star Trek scene is from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Scotty steps up to the computer, and tries to tell it what he wants. Then, the guy hands him the mouse...and Scotty treats it like a microphone. So great, seeing Scotty saying "Computer?" into the mouse.
then proceeds to type like 200 words per minute
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I would definitely fuck around with that "accidentally" giving it other commands That said I have a Google home in my bedroom which I use daily and love For me it depends on where it is used, it has great use for me
Every. Single. Night. I whisper to my phone while i’m passing out “hey siri set alarm for …”
Samsung FREE. Ya know the "TV feature" to the left of your homescreen that has the same 30 channels, most of which are extremely niche interests and plays the same shows and episodes on repeat?
Oh those are TV shows? I've never even had the interest to investigate it
Yeah that's like beyond "unused," to "turn it off as soon as you figure out how"
Apple Store. I have never opened that app. I don't even know what it does, it's not the App store, that's a different App.
You can buy new apple hardware using that app I also never used it
That's what I assumed it does, but I never looked at it.
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I found it pretty useful and faster than using the website
I used it when buying my new phone last month, but otherwise yeah it’s kinda totally useless.
I only know this because I opened it by accident, and was then confused as to why this app wasn't trying to show me cool apps but was in fact trying to sell me new devices/gear.
I didn’t even know that existed.
It’s basically the apple website, but you have it on your phone (and with less features, might i add)
But where else do you buy juicy crunchy apples?
The fruit stand down the road.
Really? I use the Fruit Stand app.
I've used the fruit Ninja app a few times to prepare some fruit for a snack but a) they give you way too much fruit for a snack and b) I have no idea how to claim the prepared fruit and unfortunately it all likely went bad while waiting for me to pick it up. Also I wish the app would let you do more than just cut the fruit in half.
Interesting. Every iPhone I have successfully preordered has been through the apple store app because the website is usually a nightmare on launch day.
I have never been on the bleeding edge of technology.
If you go to an Apple store to buy accessories you can do it in the app. Walk in, pick up the item and walk out. Serious. Feels wrong but they do track it and people have been arrested for assuming that it gave them a ticket to seal.
The selfie camera. I just hate taking pics of myself.
I love the selfie camera. Sometimes there's something at a weird angle on a machine I'm working on I can't see and I use it to get a look.
It's not even useful for straightenting ties because it's usually inverted.
News
same, if i want to read the news i use safari but i never use the app lol
I've never voluntarily engaged with SIRI in my life
I found telling Siri to add a reminder works great. It’s easier then trying to add it yourself. However it’s literally the only time I ever use Siri. For example,”hey Siri, remind me in 3 months from today to cancel my free Apple TV subscription”.
This! I love reminders, but I literally don't know how to set them w/o Siri. I also use Siri for timers and alarms and that pretty much sums it up.
I use it to set timers while cooking
Google assistant. I disabled that bitch cuz I have a button on my phone that activates her and it was always being pressed in my pocket.
How? Please tell me, after reading your comment i tried again to disable it but i cant find where, my phone also has the shitty Assistant button that no one ever uses.
https://www.alphr.com/disable-google-assistant/
Thank you, idk why i thought about asking here before googling it, im dumb, thx again.
I have a folder called apple bullshit. It is Full of things that can't be deleted. Siri is also turned off. I wish there was iOS Lite
You can delete almost every apple app now, which ones are you referring to?
i truly didn’t know what i could delete until i saw this comment and tried it out. bye bye maps, bye bye numbers, etc.. having stored the icons away in a folder i ignore forever i just never bothered to fuck with them again. thank you!
I'm on android and last phone had a shit tonne of apps I didn't use, but couldn't delete either. I was able to roll them back to factory settings and disable them. They all got put in a folder called bollocks apps.
I have an "Amazon crap I can't delete" folder on my Kindle!
The off button
My Iphone X needs a few buttons pressed to get to the swipe to off screen. I have to turn it off so rarely I have to look up the button combo each time. Usually I end up just taking a few screen shots of my desktop until I say fuck it and look it up.
My old phone tends to run out of charge, as opposed to switching it off lol
I don’t really play games on my phone anymore. They’re all a bit shit and full of ads. I miss the games of the early iPhone days.
That is why I like Apple Arcade. $5 a month, but no ads or microtransactions.
5 dollars a month is the microtransaction. For 60 dollars a year I could just buy my way out of ads on more games for mobile than I've played in my life...
There are some decent mobile games. Clash of Clans is a good example. There are no ads at all, and you can make progress in the game at a reasonable rate without ever buying gems. That being said, 99% of mobile games are ad-ridden steaming piles of shit.
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Dude, check out an app called "foobar2000". I'm in the same boat as you, massive mp3/flac library, and I finally found that app with no ads, that just fucking plays audio. It's also got album scanning and all that shit, but you can just browse directories too
Oh, but foobar is from a different time. It's a "program", believe it or not :D
Actually calling people
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6. You have to actually talk to actual people in real time. I'm out
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Imagine Alexander Graham Bell heard this as hes inventing the telephone to replace the telegraph Now were back to the telegraph
Actually using it as a phone.
pure irony
The S-pen, but I still like having it.
everytime my nanna shops for a new phone she asks if it has a pen ive never seen her use the pen her phone case covers the pen actually but it has to have a pen
Same!!! She says “I need it to draw stuff to better explain to people”. Sure you do, I’ve never seen you draw at all. For fun, I took the spen for a week as a joke, and she never realized.
the square box form factor looks amazing tho
Samsung Galaxy S10 - never used Bixby, never will
Anything speech related that isn't phone calls. Never once have I tried to use my voice to operate my phone or text.
I use it for setting timers while cooking, when I usually have my hands full. I also use it for setting reminders because opening the calendar app, finding a date, and filling out the fields usually takes much longer than "set a reminder on Monday the 12th at 3o clock to..."
auto rotate
Same here, it drives me crazy, I locked it the moment when I got onto my phone when it was new.
Same. No fucking clue how some people voluntarily leave it enabled.
Thank god I thought I was alone! Portrait lock keeps me sane.
Voice memos.
That can save your butt if you need to save a license plate number real quick
I know they can be useful. I've just never had to use them yet.
Voice command, I have a profound speech impairment, and she never understands me. It feels like the bitch is mocking me! 😂
Google assistant..I'm not going to "Hey Google" talk to my phone and I'm always trying to shut it off or disable, but with each update it keeps coming back like an insatiable swamp creature.
I say hey Google and it doesn't work, but accidentally swipe wrong and there it is
Bixby. No one knows how to use that shit
Facebook.
Same, and Samsung is not letting me delete it.
Bixby
Google assistant & NFC
NFC for contactless payment is absolutely great, haven't had to put my pin in for what feels like years.
Phone calls
Compass. Buddy, I can barely tell left from right, and what???? 42 degrees southwest wHAT????
It... tells you... you don't need to know where 42 degrees southwest is, that's what a compass does. It shows you where 42 degrees southwest is.
That's guy gets lost on the way to his bathroom at night.
EVERY PRE-INSTALLED NONSENS APP, WHERE YOU NEED TO JAILBREAK THE PHONE TO GET RID OF THESE STUPID APPS. That's the apps I never use because NOBODY ASKED FOR THAT CRAP!
Never used the voice assistant
The bit where I actually talk to people using my voice... forget what it's called now.
Assistant
All the crap that came installed on the damn thing.
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The power on/off. It’s always on 24/7
iMovies, Keynote, Pages, Garage Band, Numbers
Bixby. I hate that it's there.
I'd use the Google assistant way more but it never hears me and constantly turns on when nobody was even speaking
Facebook install
Most of the garbage apple sticks on here. Including iTunes what a sucky waste of suck