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iPhone Anyone else not like the new CallBar?
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I have to admit, strange opinion ??? But, by all means, if you don't like it, uninstall is very easy
Why is that a strange opinion?
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Because, for me on 5S, CallBar is a must tweak to have and it doesn't take a half of the screen......not even close
I think you are using the older version that I described, they have updated it for the iPhone 6 and this is the version I am talking about.
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If you have an iPhone 5 or 4 then yes it makes sense but it works nicely with iPhone 6 and 6+
No I'm talking about with the 6/6 plus. It still takes up a third of the screen!
I was obviously exaggerating but it's still a good third, and way worse than it was before.
Yeah I just prefer minimalist design and less clutter, I preferred when it was actually a bar.
So with this new CallBar, do incoming calls show up as a notification banner? Or does it show up like the screenshot in this post? I haven't tried the new look version yet. But the whole purpose of the tweak was so that incoming calls don't interrupt you and instead you get a small notification banner. Is that not how it works anymore? Or is that screenshot what it looks like when you're placing a call?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
As mentioned, it shows up like that when you receive a call.
I have mine set up to use the normal call screen when at the lockscreen though so I don't see this unless I am dialing out (because then I call up CallBar.
Oh man that's awful. That's really too bad. I loved the tweak because it prevented calls from kicking you out of whatever app you're using and only showed a banner. Is there a legacy setting to only use a simple notification banner? im guessing no since this whole threat is about the huge banner.
Yeah it's ridiculous I really don't understand why developers, programmers, software designers and big corporations continue to release inferior updates. It's insanely frustrating.
I don't think so (legacy setting).
For whatever reason this isn't bothering me. I guess that's because I'm presented with a bunch of options pertaining to the call when it comes in. And how Callbar handles Favorites, Recents and Contacts now seems better to me.
There should be an option to turn off all the extra details for those who don't want them and liked CallBar for its original purpose, minimal invasiveness. In the old version you could tap the bar and those options would appear, much better.
Well
It's not like the dev has a gun to your head and is telling you to use the tweak. I didn't care for it for the first little bit in iOS 7, but it got better.
There's a bunch of tweaks I'm still using that I don't care for how they are used since iOS 6. Forecast is a big offender to me.
But the alternative is nothing. Or some other tweak which doesn't have everything we're looking for. In this particular instance however, I like this update better.
Just me.
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I agree that there should be an option for that. You and I see this tweak differently so that option should be there to allow you to use it the way you like and me to use it the way I like.
Better that way.
It kinda bugged me at first too but I started just swiping it up and back down while in a call if I was needing to use my phone. It more like a extension of the Notification Center.
How about call waiting? I have had this issue with new call bar that it doesn't manage call waiting. I can hear the beeping(another incoming call) but nothing on the display.
As explained above, it's technically only a third but it may as well be the whole screen as it covers so much of the screen you can't do anything.